Aaron Trammel shares his thoughts and observations on how sound and music work in video games, looking at Limbo and other titles.
The soundtrack of Limbo says a lot about the game, which in turn says a lot about our culture.Video games are rarely the object of analysis for sound culture studies, this is fairly counterintuitive considering both their social impact and technological nature.
Should sound studies take a closer look at video games – where would it start?
Read Aarons full post here.
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Another excellent sound feature from Michael Coleman – this time on the sound and music for ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’. Check it out:
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Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact Epic Sound Epic Sound, halloween, music — We delivered music, sound design and voice acting for this presentation from One.com, launching their new Cloud Drive solution.
One.com is a market leading web hosting provider with more than 850.000 customers in 149 countries. The presentation was developed by leading Scandinavian visual effect studio Ghost,
who have also done visuals on movies such as ‘Cowboys and Aliens’, ‘Hellboy 2′, ‘Harry Potter 5′ and many more.
Have a peek to see why you really want to be using a Cloud Drive
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact Epic Sound,music,sound design,voice-over cloud drive, ghost, music, one.com, one.com cloud drive, presentation, product launch, sound design, voice-acting, voice-over — Tim Prebble over at The Music of Sound came across this awesome video consisting entirely of sounds made with Craftsman tools:
If you enjoyed the video above, I’m quite sure you’re going to like Kutiman’s other work – check it out here.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact niceties,recording Kutiman, music, recording, sound design, tools — Tying in with the premiere of ‘Super 8‘, composer Michael Giacchino has released five cues from the film for free! These can also be used by budding film makers in productions under a Creative Commons license. Check out and download the tracks below:
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact film sound composer, cues, download, Michael Giacchino, music, score, super 8 — Over at Audio Media magazine, John Broomhall talks to Martin Stig Andersen about the sound for Playdead’s award-winning LIMBO game:
‘There’s a lot of ambiguity in it that chimes with my primary background in acusmatic music where I would extract musical values from something as unlikely as traffic sounds.’
Read the full article on the sound for Limbo here.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact game audio interview, limbo, Martin Stig Andersen, music, sound design — Gamespot has an interview up with Fable III composer Russell Shaw.
GS: What were some of the challenges working on the Fable series?
RS: Well, the Fable universe is absolutely huge. So many musical styles to cater for, and yet if I veer off what many consider to be the “correct” Fable path, it’s considered blasphemy by the Fable community fan base. Each new release of the Fable series requires a degree of freshness from the previous one, and coming up with new ideas is a challenge. Also, the sheer scale of each game means I have to compose a huge amount of material to cover it all without it becoming tedious or repetitive.
Read the full interview here.
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