The 3rd International FilmSoundHamburg will take place from August 17th to 25th, 2013 in Hamburg, Germany. This 7-day summer academy for Film Music, Games Music and Sound Design includes a number of workshops and discussions. Highlights include master classes by Randy Thom, Shigeru Umebayashi and Mark Griskey. Check the official website for more information. … [Read more...]
Airborne Sound Offering Free Sound Libraries
Last month, we told you that Airborne Sound was offering their Victory Vegas Motorcycle Sound Effect Bundle for free as part of their redesigned website's beta test. Well, it seems they weren't finished with the freebies, as they've recently added their Crowd Bundle, Train Bundle, Ambience Bundle, and Variety 2 Bundle to the list. These high-quality sound effect libraries … [Read more...]
Film Music and Sound Design Brought Closer Together With New Sundance Partnership
Where does a film's score end and sound design begin? A new partnership between the Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound will seek to bring these two components of the film soundtrack closer together, with the aim of fostering a more integrated dialogue between filmmakers, sound designers and score composers. Composers Lab, Sundance's annual mentoring scheme for aspiring … [Read more...]
Soniccouture launch Geosonics ft. Chris Watson
Geosonics is a colloboration between legendary field recordist Chris Watson and Soniccouture. Hundreds of hours of recording time, in some of the worlds most extreme and inhospitable environments, combine to form a library of rare sonic artefacts that cannot be found anywhere else. Intro offer : €20 / $30 Off MSRP Enter Code :YA6ARGHW ends Midnight 24th August 2013 6 … [Read more...]
Audible Worlds launches Crowdsourced Sound Library
Audible Worlds is inviting sound recordists all over the world to contribute to a new sound library, the 'World SFX Ambience Library'. With the stated aim that "over 200 recordists from all over the world contribute a 3-5 minute recording of ambience from their region", it's an ambitious project. The idea of crowdsourcing sound libraries is not new, but is gaining traction all … [Read more...]
All the noise, noiSE, noISE, NOISE…
Is it really August already?! Time to roll out our next featured topic then! When most people talk about "noise," they're referring to something that is distracting or detrimental, an interference if you will, to their ability to focus on something. We have that in audio; however, that's only one definition of noise. in our world. We also have laboratory style noise...in the … [Read more...]
Tkapik from Inear Display
Inear Display have just released Tkapik, an amplitude controlled generative sampler. Add it to a track, then load a sound file and Tkapik will trigger the sample with random settings every time an amplitude peak is detected in the input signal. The sample can either be mixed with the input according to its amplitude envelope or completely replace the signal using the “solo” … [Read more...]