I found at USO two exclusive and amazing videos included in the sample kit "Richard Devine - The Electronic Music Manuscript" by Sony Creative Software. A (must-have) electronic sample library that won Best Sample Library for the "Seventh Annual Remix Technology Awards" 2009. These videos contain interesting info about the pieces of software/hardware and several techniques … [Read more...]
Diego Stocco Making Music from a Tree
Sound Designer and Composer Diego Stocco has realized an amazing performance called Music From A Tree. Let's see his explanation: "In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it. To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs … [Read more...]
Basic Synthesis Tutorials and Videos
Jason Timothy has published a really useful post on his web The Music Software Training Blog talking about the basics of synthesis, explaining several types and the main elemetns of synthesis. "I wanted to give you some basic concepts to synthesis that you can quickly use to better your sound design abilities. My hope is that I am able to help people who haven’t yet had the … [Read more...]
The IMAX Projector Sounds Off
Reader slash IMAX projectionist Derek Helmer, sent me a link to his blog which features some posts in and about the IMAX projection booth he works in (I've posted some of my favorites below). I am a huge fan of feature film presentation in IMAX, even with the recent hub-bub about their retro-fitted theaters, hopefully IMAX gets that screen size discrepancy and proper charge … [Read more...]
Sound Effects Demostations by Roger Gregg
Award winning radio drama and comedy writer/producer Roger Gregg discusses and demonstrates some of the instruments and gadgets used for producing sound effects in live-audience and studio-based radio comedy & drama productions. A serie of 9 videos that I found at Live Sound Effects Blog from filmsound. More info at Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, a professional production … [Read more...]
The Sound of Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" Sound for Film Profile from Michael Coleman on Vimeo. Here is the info about the sound of Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, a 3D-Animation Movie directed by Carlos Saldanha and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Staff Sound Designer: Randy Thom Sound Effect Editor: Kyrsten Mate Comoglio Sound Mixers: Nathan Vance and James Spencer Sound … [Read more...]
David Toop and the Digital & Experimental Music
Composer, musician and writer David Toop talks on this video about his interest on digital generated sound and the impact of that on experimental music, his love for the sounds and music making and his work on Laptop Orchestra. About David Toop David Toop is a musician/composer, writer, and curator. He has written four books, currently translated into eight languages: Rap … [Read more...]