This is a guest post by Randy Jones, founder of Madrona Labs a Seattle-based company making hardware and software for computer music. You can reach him @MadronaLabs. Human-centered design is so mainstream now that it is synonymous with good design. This is as true in the making of sound creation and processing tools as in any technology. The concepts of usability, … [Read more...]
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Music through Culture: An Interview with Brian D’Oliveira
Brian D'Oliveira is a composer based in Montreal, Canada, and the founder & Creative Director of La Hacienda Creative, where they focus on creating unique, bespoke music and sounds for the video-game industry, as well as for film, TV and the manufacturing sector. Some of his credits include Papo y Yo, Tearaway, Resident Evil Biohazard and Little Big Planet 3. … [Read more...]
A Conversation with Ben Burtt on Perseverance
This interview was originally conducted for inclusion in our "Failure" theme. Some extenuating circumstances kept it in the wings for a while, but it's Ben Burtt. How could we not post it?! ...and, you know, better late than never! DS: This month we’re looking at the subject of failure... BB: [Laughs] Really? DS: Yeah, we’re going a little self reflective with our theme … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought #95: Fear is the Mind Killer
As Brad mentioned in his introduction to this months theme: fear is an emotion we must face daily. Deadlines, workloads, project managers, tedious tasks, and especially cutting footsteps are all points of emotional friction dealt with by many of us to some degree or another. There is also a more intangible yet just as insidious form of fear we have to control: the fear of the … [Read more...]
The Fun of Foley
This is a guest contribution by Jim Griffin, Senior Sound Designer at award-winning Soho-based audio post production facility Jungle Studios. Foley is probably the most fun and creative element of sound design – here, Jim looks at some of the lengths he has gone to creating great sound and offers his tips on Foley. Just a few days into my first job as a runner at what is now … [Read more...]
The Volunteer Labor Behind DesigningSound.org
To those reading this in the U.S., Happy Labor Day! To those elsewhere, happy Monday. Coming from the UK where we have generic "bank holidays", I've still been getting to grasp with the many varied holidays celebrated here in the United States. Today is one such day, Labor Day. [perfectpullquote align="full" cite="United States Department of Labor" … [Read more...]
Re-Igniting a College Burnout
This is a guest submission from Nate Flaks. Nate is a soon-to-be-LA-based Sound Editor and half of the electronic duo Sleeping Lion. He is an alumni of Berklee College of music where he studied Film Scoring and Electronic Production & Design. In hindsight, it was arrogant to believe that I’d somehow know what “too much” was before I took on too much. … [Read more...]