I came across an interesting open-source “sequencer for digital art” called Iannix. It is quite versatile for creative use, but is essentially a way of interfacing digital drawing or art with sound synthesis. Check it out at: http://www.iannix.org/
If you’re a Mac Mail user and you use IMAP with your web hosting email, you can run into an issue where your Sent emails won’t save to the server (or anywhere for that matter) when you set up your Mail account. There are lots of possibilities for things to go wrong, but I found … Read more Fixing Mac Mail Sent Items
Here is a neat Animagraff that shows how convential cone speaker drivers work: http://animagraffs.com/loudspeaker/
The Burns Film Center has a really neat Visual Glossary which includes some film term definitions, along with great examples from proper commercial feature films. Pretty neat. The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is a nonprofit cultural arts center dedicated to teaching literacy for a visual culture; presenting the best of independent, documentary, and world … Read more Burns Film Center Visual Glossary
Fairly amusing (and true)…
Pretty cool old short film showing the role of the “Soundman” for motion picture making:
A good little reminder about The McGurk Effect: http://designingsound.org/2014/12/hearing-lips-and-seeing-voices-the-mcgurk-effect/
This clip uses some techniques that one of my Installations class groups would have loved to have pulled off quite this well… CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music – Nigel Stanford from Nigel Stanford on Vimeo.
For general video stuff I do I often lean on the H.264 codec as it tends to produce high quality at relatively small file sizes for most standard video stuff, however it is not always the best choice for everything, including using for video in Pro Tools post sessions. Randy Coppinger has written about some … Read more Video Codecs and Pro Tools
Stephan Schutze, of Sound Librarian and FMOD fame, has written an article explaining his views on the current state of game audio: http://www.asoundeffect.com/the-current-state-of-game-audio-and-what-lies-ahead/