The original 1st February deadline for the Sonic Arts Award 2014 has been extended to 10th February 2014. This year's competition, its second edition, is currently inviting entrants in the following four categories: • Sound Art • Sonic Research • Soundscapes • Digital Art A prize of €1000.00 will be awarded to the winner in each category. There are also a … [Read more...]
September's Sound Design Challenge Announced
Shaun Farley from Dynamic Interference has announced the Sound Design Challenge for this month. For this month’s challenge, we’re going to be creating a sound design to fill in the space outside of the camera’s frame, but this is really more of a test of your storytelling skills. Details: Create and tell a story about the character in the video. Overall, the piece should … [Read more...]
Monthly Sound Design Challenge, Expanding Creativity Together
Shaun Farley has started a new interesting project called "Monthly Sound Design Challenge". Each month he gives a video footage (without sound) and anyone has the opportunity to design the complete soundtrack of the video, following some rules and also having the opportunity to get some prizes. Shaun explains the details: I’ve spent the last few years looking for something like … [Read more...]
All About the Sound of "The Hurt Locker"
As you may already know, Paul N.J. Ottosson has won the academy award for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing with Ray Beckett. Need to know why "The Hurt Locker" won the two prizes? Here are some links to the posts previously published, all with info about the sound of this amazing film: “The Hurt Locker” and “Avatar”, Two Different Paths on Sound Editing Thoughts of … [Read more...]