White Noise recently published a blog post sharing a series of videos taking a look behind the scenes of their Sound Design work for Arrival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUKub_NECQs&list=PLZhKR3JT1N21m4Rp51tWm6LYo9O3x6YNz&index=1 … [Read more...]
Women In Sound
This is a guest contribution by Sarah King who works at Grand Central Recording Studios in London, a sound design and audio post production facility, creating award winning sound for TV, cinema, online, interactive audio and radio productions. Having worked within the creative sector for the last 10 years, the latter four of which at Grand Central Recording Studios … [Read more...]
Arrival Audio Team Wins 4th AMPS Award For Excellence In Sound
The AMPS (The Association of Motion Picture Sound) awarded Sylvain Bellemare, Claude La Haye and Bernard Gariépy Strobl the 4th AMPS Award for "Excellence In Sound" for their work on Arrival. You can read the official announcement here. … [Read more...]
Using VR design strategies in non-VR projects
Finally! With the advent of somewhat affordable VR systems and the first titles making their way into the public’s hand, we are hearing something from the general populace and other non-audio developers that we sound professionals have always known: Sound matters! Since VR is an enclosed experience, in that the user is entirely enveloped visually in the world they … [Read more...]
New Audio Technologies from CES 2017
The Consumer Electronics Show was recently held in Las Vegas between the 5th and 7th of January. As one would anticipate from its name, CES does focus on consumer electronics, and hence most of the announcements, releases and pre-release showing tends to focus on home and vehicle electronics, computing, home audio, fitness tech and everything in between. This year, there … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 52 – Reflection
I started this series a year ago...well, a year ago next week...with the goal of making myself continue thinking about sound in new ways. When I was regularly writing longer pieces for this site, that was easy to do. As I stepped back into more of a background role though, I found myself missing the constant motivation to evaluate the way I approach sound. So this was all about … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 51 – Ornery Listener
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… There used to be a time when I could turn off the sound editor/mixer side of my brain while consuming … [Read more...]