NASA Sounds
NASA has a pretty cool collection of sounds that are more or less copyright free: Check them out.
NASA has a pretty cool collection of sounds that are more or less copyright free: Check them out.
Michael Moore declares the word “documentarian” dead at Toronto International Film Festival. Potentially controversial, but he brought up some interesting points in his keynote at the event. Check out details here: http://www.indiewire.com/article/michael-moores-13-rules-for-making-documentary-films-20140910?fb_action_ids=10153116635521777&fb_action_types=og.shares Oh, and one of his points is that sound is more important than the picture and that the soundo should be paid as … Read more Michael Moore’s 13 Rules for Making Documentary Films
This is kind of amusing… Contains some “graphic” adult sounds, but no “graphic” adult images.
For all the audio nerds who think they know about using a tape machine: http://www.playbuzz.com/scottj11/analog-tape-trivia
Scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology seem to be onto a new acoustic absorption technology that is really effective on fixed, tunable frequencies, and is extremely small relative n to wavelengths. The potential for this in acoustic treatment is great. Check it out: http://www.neomatica.com/2014/08/27/designed-metasurface-thin-near-perfect-acoustic-absorber/
I helped out with location sound for a short film the other weekend. The film is called “Turning the Corner” by Humphrey James. Humphrey has pulled together a great crew, and is trying a Pozible campaign out to help fund costs and pay people. Check it out at: http://www.pozible.com/project/184766
Canberra Institute of Technology are running the Pro Tools 130 Game Audio certified course over the next couple of months. First time offered in Canberra, possibly actually the first time it has been offered in Australia. Check out the attached flyer for details: ProTools 130 Game Audio flyer, 2014 v3
There are a bunch of good books out there for different aspects of film sound, but one that I have checked out and liked is David Lewis Yewdall’s “Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound”. In the 4th edition of the book they changed the format a little to include resources on a website rather than … Read more Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound Resources
The other week Andrew Mooney and I had some fun making all sorts of noise using no input mixing techniques. You check check out more details at: http://www.infidelstudios.com.au/no-input-no-idea Here are some sounds for you to check out:
Jack Endino, Producer – Engineer – Mixer – Musician – NOISEMONGER, wrote a fairly concise summary of his conclusions at the time about odd vs even harmonic distortion and why we like it way back in 1997: http://www.endino.com/archive/arch2.html