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Having a lot of creative fun at the moment working on Failsafe Films’ horror Double Blind, by director Ian Hunt-Duffy.
Set in a pharmaceutical testing lab where subjects have been given a radical new stimulant drug, there’s plenty of intense and brain sizzling moments to push the sound design!
Delighted to see Mark O'Rowe's The Delinquent Season has been released. I'd a great time working on it as my first credited as dialogue editor gig. Working on it, I learned the amazing strengths of Izotope RX spectral repair for cleaning up incidental noises, which was really important for an intimate, dialogue driven drama film.
The Vinyl Factory have released a short film on contemporary musicians and artists using field recording in their work. It raises some really interesting questions about the act of field recording in itself. In a strictly technical mode, the aim would be to record sound as cleanly as possible in the highest fidelity. But if field recording in an artistic sense, it can be argued that it's the moment and place of the recordist in that moment that matters more than the objective quality of the recording.
Sound You Don't Hear Anymore (BBC Radio)
The Quietest Places On Earth (The Telegraph Travel)
The Eeriness of the English Countryside (The Guardian)
How do you perform a horse operation in a radio drama? (BBC 4)
Noise pollution is drowning out nature even in protected areas (The Guardian)
Jana Winderen: Recording The World
Field Recording by Chris Watson (BOMB Magazine)
Working With Sound: Amy Hanley
An arty exploration of Devon’s English Riviera
To celebrate Good Time's general release, Lopatin has put together his second FACT mix (his first was way back in 2010) and woven together a selection of his favorite soundtrack cuts plus a few extras for good measure. It’s a wild ride, kicking off with Giorgio Moroder’s Midnight Express track ‘Cacophony’, running through a cut from Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Vivian (under her Abigail Mead pseudonym), a snippet from Brad Fiedel’s Terminator soundtrack and a memorable theme from Running Man.
Ben Frost + Steve Albini + Richard Mosse =
The amazing Knobs breaks down a record session for scoring a podcast, using the super creative 'Infinite Jets' pedal:
Automation in Ableton has always been a massive headache, so looking forward to the new automation and arrangement editing functionality:
Great interview with the Strangers Things 2 sound team on the A Sound Effect Blog. Good insights into what plug ins they were using for some of the 'Mind Flayer' sound.