Jonas Hollerup Helle did an in-depth feature interview of Martin Stig Andersen, Sound Designer & Composer behind Playdead's LIMBO & INSIDE. https://vimeo.com/215488901 … [Read more...]
Best Sound Design Categories Return To Tony Awards
3 years after their controversial removal the Tony Awards have announced that they will be reinstating the categories of "Best Sound Design of a Play" and "Best Sound Design of a Musical" starting season 2017-2018. Starting next season, Best Sound Design of a Musical and Best Sound Design of a Play will be reinstated to the list of competitive Tony Award categories with a new … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought #69 – Always Be Listening
Yesterday, my boyfriend Jon and I embarked on several hours of power washing. The stairs leading up to our front doorstep were turning green from mold and the walls surrounding them were no better. Jon's job was to man the power washer nozzle, while I was in charge of making sure the garden hose feeding it water didn't tangle or that the gutter didn't … [Read more...]
Atlas Obscura: The People Who Decide What the Inside of a Human Body Sounds Like
Atlas Obscura has published an interesting article about how Sound Designers tackle sounds inside the human body. According to Hughes and Babcock, those decisions are mostly based on the infrastructural makeup of the body, and the idea that, as the camera zooms through this environment, it’s encountering different materials. “If there’s a bone, we’re going to hear cracking,” … [Read more...]
Nate Brenholdt interview
Nate Brenholdt is a Sound Designer/Composer/Audio Engineer who probably owns more hardware synthesizers than you do. His passion for synths is infectious. The first time I met Nate five years ago, he showed me some sound effects he was creating with his new Serge Modular synth (whilst surrounded by others synths) and then showed me pictures of a wall of synths at his home … [Read more...]
The Sound Design Of Star Wars Rogue One
Sound On Sound just released a in depth behind the scenes video of the Sound Design of Star Wars Rogue One. We had the great pleasure of visiting the iconic Skywalker Sound in Northern California to talk to Supervising Sound Editors Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood about world creation, making sci-fi weapons sound realistic, and how some unexpected sampling brought … [Read more...]
Mixing “Serial” (no milk required) – An interview with Kate Bilinski
For this month's theme, I interviewed Kate Bilinski who was a editor and mixer on the second season of the Serial podcast. Kate is a sound designer and re-recording mixer. Outside of the Serial podcast, she makes noises for film and television, including Todd Solondz’s ‘Wiener-Dog’ and the Emmy-winning documentary, ‘We Could Be King.’ Serial is a serialized award-winning … [Read more...]