Heikki Kossi is an illustrious Foley artist and supervisor from Kokkola, Finland. He and his colleagues at H5 Film Sound have provided bespoke Foley since the year 2000 for numerous feature films, shorts, video games, TV-dramas, documentaries and animations, amassing hundreds of credits (Heikki has 40 to his name in 2017 alone!). These include "Beguiled", "Bill Nye: Science … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought #97: Fearing When Thanks ≠ Giving
First let me say to those reading this in the United States, I hope you're enjoying the tail end of the Thanksgiving break. To those outside the U.S., I hope you'll forgive my weak attempt at a segue from a real-life holiday to a blog post title. Right, so with 'thanks' and 'giving' on my mind, I thought I'd share some views on what is probably my least favorite aspect of … [Read more...]
Diego Stocco – Sound Composing Fear from his DIY Nightmares
Covering both the subject of last month's DIY and this month's of Fear, we spoke with Diego Stocco about his work as a sound designer, composer and performer. Diego creates eclectic musical experiences with custom built instruments and experimental recording techniques. He loves discovering hidden sounds from organic sources, objects and materials, with an unorthodox musical … [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...]
Monthly Theme: Fear
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell It seems only fitting that as we wrap up Halloween that we delve into the season’s most prominent emotion: fear. While horror sound design and making just the right mixture of viscous liquid for appropriate gore sounds is part of what we do, so too, is the sound design of psychological fear. Crafting dread, … [Read more...]