Acousmonium, INA-GRM, 1980. Photo by Laszlo Ruska. Surround (Oxford Dictionary) (verb) [with object] - Be all round (someone or something) (noun) - A thing that forms a border or edging around an object. (adjective) (Surrounding) - All around a particular place or thing. Based merely on a technological approach, one might think that Surround sound is just the … [Read more...]
Welcome to Reverb Month
Sound occupies space. Actually, sound is a wave (or set of waves) that travels through a medium. So, it's not so much that it occupies a space, but is trapped within it. Sound interacts with that space, fills it, bounces around inside it and, if it causes enough vibrations, can bleed out into adjacent spaces. The interaction between sound and the space it occupies can tell us a … [Read more...]
Sonnenschein's Webinar Report: Week IV – Sonic Time-Space Continuum
It's time for another report of the Sound Design for Pros webinar series from David Sonnenschein. The last webinar was very good. David started reviewing several of the assignments of the last webinar. Then he talked about the relations between sound and the physical/social environment in a cinematic context and also talked about several techniques and methods to analyze and … [Read more...]