As members of the audio industry, sound is our livelihood. Whether we’re cutting dialog, recording, editing, composing, or engaging in any other part of our field, we expose ourselves to sound everyday. And while sound is informative and emotionally moving, it is nevertheless a fatiguing experience for our body. Most of us have heard at one point or another the concept of … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 39 – Inherent Spatialization
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… I've been working on a 360/VR short, and also been testing various workflow approaches to derive the binaural … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 38 – Sensory Interplay
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… For many years I was guilty of believing that, and I'm not disparaging the importance of sound here, vision … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 6 – Feeling Sound
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… Picking up an element from last week's thought... "sound is the result of a physical event." It's the … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 1 – Hearing Changes
Happy New Year! You may have noticed that I've been far less active on the site lately [...or maybe you haven't and I'm just a narcissist]. I've taken a step back from the site's more regular content, but I wanted to challenge myself to something. I'm going to try to post a musing on sound once a week for the next year. I'll probably fail, but I want to keep the juices flowing. … [Read more...]
“Sound”
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30419922[/vimeo] We love sound. Hear from sound experts and friends of SoundCloud why sound is so important to the way we connect with the world. Despite the very different ways they think about and work with sound, they all converged on the idea that sound is incredibly important, often neglected and that if you listen better, there’s a whole new way … [Read more...]