Mix Magazine takes a look at what it takes to get started in game audio:
So you’ve been thinking about trying your hand at the gaming industry, but is it a realistic goal for a studio like yours? The optimistic answer is, anything is possible. However, we’re not going to mislead you into thinking it’s going to be easy or that it’s going to happen overnight.
Read the full feature on breaking into game audio here.
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Over at the Film Music Magazine website, Ron Hess takes a look at the history and legacy of legendary film composer Bernard Herrmann:
Recently, on a whim, I Googled the terms “unusual orchestration” and “film” together in a search for new and exotic “highs.” (Remember my recent “Orchestrational Aptitude Test?” Here’s where some of us get our jollies…) I found that, to the outside world, the term is so mis- and over-used as to be almost meaningless. Most of the links led to rather conventional film and concert scores, making me wonder if the use of live players at all is now considered “unusual.” Or perhaps the word has become such a relative term that it could even be applied to potato chips by one dining on a steady diet of chicken broth (ask any digestive track surgery patient…)
Read the full post here.
Also be sure to check out Jim Sullivan’s detailed look at the score for Psycho – you’ll find this right here.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact film sound Bernard Herrmann, composer, psycho, score — ‘White Knuckles’ is another well-made music video from OK Go, and this one’s definitely one for the dog lovers out there 
Check it out below:
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact music,niceties music video, ok go, videos, White Knuckles — Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact niceties dansedance, stopmotion, video — Sound on the PC has come a long way from the humble PC speaker to the full-blown orchestral soundtracks of today – and here, the evolution of the sound card is told through a snippet of the brilliant Monkey Island soundtrack.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact game audio game audio, game music, monkey island, pc sound card, sound cards, video — Kevin Hill and Lisa Horan over at Mix Online have taken a look at how the Internet has changed the way business is done for sound studios.
For the studio owners we talked to this month, the Internet has definitely had an impact, and it’s gone well beyond providing a simpler and more efficient delivery method to clients. Not only has it opened the door to new opportunities and sparked innovative approaches to optimizing sound quality, in some ways the Internet has triggered a complete overhaul in the way these studio owners do business.
Hop on over to the Mix Online site for the full article.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact recording internet usage, sound business, sound studios — “Salt” premieres today in Denmark, and here’s a fine feature on the sound from The Soundworks Collection:
Who is Salt? Uncover the sound behind “Salt” in this exclusive SoundWorks Collection Sound for Film Profile featuring Re-recording mixer Greg P. Russell, Re-recording mixer Jeff Haboush, and Re-recording mixer Scott Millan.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact film sound film sound, foley, Greg P. Russell, Jeff Haboush, movie sound, Salt, Scott Millan, sound design — Bernardo Villela over at The Wilmington Movie Examiner has taken a look at what he considers to be the 10 best voice actors of all-time:
10. Lorenzo Music (frequently credited as L. Music)
Music will have mostly television credits but most are significant. He is most well known for being the one and only voice of Garfield for years, sadly he passed before the film version and Bill Murray stepped into the irreplaceable part. His other credits include Peter Venkman on The Real Ghost Busters and Tummi Gummi on The Adventures of the Gummi Bears. He broke into voice work as Additional Voices on Hannah-Barbara’s The Jetsons.
9. Maurice LaMarche
He is perhaps most well-known as being the voice of The Brain, however, Maurice LaMarche has a much more flexible voice than most people realize playing stints as several characters including: George Wilson on Dennis the Menace, Chief Quimby on Inspector Gadget and recently on a straight-to-DVD film Inspector Gadget, Popeye, Egon Spengler on The Real Ghost Busters, Dizzy Devil, Scuttle on the TV show of The Little Mermaid, Orson Welles in Ed Wood, Jeremy Hawke on The Critic, Pepe Le Pew in Space Jam, video game incarnations of Yosemite Sam and Wile E. Coyote; Alec Baldwin in Team America: World Police, not to mention many narrator gigs, more than 200 credits total.
No prizes for guessing the winner though
View the first part of the countdown here. And check out the second part right here.
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