Hugo Verweij over at Everyday Listening takes a look at an interesting sound installation – The Sonic Body:
Have you ever wondered what your body sounds like, from the inside? I have, and I actually recorded some bowel sounds once using a stethoscope I borrowed from a doctor friend. The Sonic Body is an interactive installation which allows visitors to experience what the human body sounds like.
Here’s a video from the installation – and check out Hugo’s full post on The Sonic Body here.
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Film Music Magazine has an interview up with Grammy-award winning recording engineer John Kurlander, whose credits include work on the Lord of the Rings, The Hurt Locker and Assassins Creed II soundtracks + many more.
Please explain your role when working with composers. What is the engineer responsible for during the recording process?
The recording engineer / mixer is responsible for session planning, room setup, mic selection, creating the sound recordings, and eventually refining and finalizing those sounds in the mix. It’s a truly wonderful job and just the chance to be working with so many talented musicians is a joy in itself. The best thing is that as technologies and tastes are quickly updating and changing, no two recordings are the same, and it’s a constantly evolving art. Having said that, many of the challenges and pitfalls can easily be avoided by doing lots of homework, research and forward planning. Especially on the large orchestral sessions where time, money and reputations are all on the line.
Read the full interview with John Kurlander over at the Film Music Magazine site.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact recording interview, john kurlander, recording, recording engineering — Check out this interview with sound designer Andrew Spitz, creator of the excellent Social Sound Design resource:
I created Social Sound Design (SSD) to bring together the various disciplines of sounds. Many of the online sound communities are focused on one discipline or topic. However, now sound designers often participate in more than one discipline; this means they have to oscillate between many forums to find all the information to satisfy the needs of a project.
In order to consolidate the flow of knowledge, I created Social Sound Design. I wanted to create a forum for sound designers — from all disciplines — to come together, ask questions, and get answers. I would like to see SSD grow into a community-driven space for sound designers to share knowledge and help flatten the steep learning curve of all disciplines of sound design.
Read the full interview over at the Sounddesign blog – and to see what Social Sound Design is all about, visit the site here.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact sound design andrew spitz, interview, sound design — The Ivor Novello award winners are announced tonight, and Empire: Total War is nominated for Best Original Video Game Score. Not sure what the Ivors are? Here’s what the web site has to say about them:
The Ivors celebrate the outstanding writing achievements of songwriters, composers and their music publishers. The awards either celebrate artistic excellence in a specific work, exceptional performance figures in the award year or recognise the outstanding achievements of a particular songwriter or composer throughout their career.
No matter how things turn out, we’re really honoured to have worked on a production nominated for such an outstanding award – here’s to hoping!
See how everything pans out here.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact Epic Sound,game audio awards, empire total war, Ivor Novello, music, nomination, score, The Ivors — Sound designer Diego Stocco has made a great performance playing on something as novel as a bonsai tree – check it out below:
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact recording music, recording, sound design, sound installation — We want to ensure that we have the best tracks up over at our Listening section, and we need your help. You can pause playback in the player to bring up the rating plugin – please stop by and rate your favourite tracks.
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Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact voice-over game audio, recording, voice actors, voice-acting, voices — Tim Prebble over at The Music of Sound blog came across this incredible YouTube choral collaboration, featuring 185 voices and spanning 12 countries. Well worth checking out!
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