Karen Collins has finished her game audio documentary project, Beep, which sounds like a huge undertaking. Karen has provided “a little post-mortem for future filmmakers out there to understand just how expensive it is to make a movie” on her website. To check out details of her budget, visit: http://www.gamessound.com/budget.html
Way back in 2000 legendary film and film sound editor Walter Murch wrote an interesting article discussing the role of sound for film. He starts with a reflection of the importance of the sound role in the early days of sound films, and goes on to discuss sound design theory. Check it out on the … Read more Stretching Sound to Help the Mind See
The current ArchivesACT Find of the Month is about a $35 million film studio complex that was planned for the ACT in the early 1980’s, that never quite came to be. Check out details at: http://www.archives.act.gov.au/find_of_the_month
No Film School have posted up an interesting article discussing the film editing techniques of David Lean (Editor/Director of Lawerence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and The Bridge on the River Kwai). Sound is a careful consideration here, and really needs to be considered write from the script stage to enable some of these techniques to … Read more Cutting on Sound
Since it is Olympics time, someone posted up a link to an interesting article from last Olympics discussing some of the techniques that broadcasters use for “sound design” in the Olympics and televised sports in general. They are quite interesting. Check them out at: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/how-the-gorgeous-sometimes-fictional-sound-of-the-olympics-gets-made/259742/ http://www.fast-and-wide.com/more/wideangle/2697-the-sound-of-sport-what-is-real
The Audible Range website have posted up a great article about the making of the original Star Trek sound effects, that includes a soundboard so you can sample the sounds on the site. Check it out at: http://audiblerange.com/categories/the-listening-life/kittens-kisses-and-razorblades-behind-star-treks-iconic-sounds/
The British Library has 22 archival audio recordings on its Sound website of Alan Blumlein’s binaural audio recording tests. Check them out at: http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-recording-history/Alan-Blumlein-recordings
The Vinyl Factory have put a great interactive timeline of physical recorded music formats on their website. Check it out at: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/the-evolution-of-physical-music-formats-an-interactive-timeline/
Here are a couple of videos relating to Alan Blumlein’s work. The first one here is a test of stereo recording from the EMI Archives: This next one shows Neville Thiele from the AES talking about Blumlein: Another resource from AES has some great history of stereophonic sound and shows that Bell Labs in USA … Read more Blumlein Videos
I was looking for some more information about stereo microphone technique pioneer Alan Blumlein the other day, and stumbled across an interesting article from New Scientist magazine from way back in 1990, about the missing biography of Alan Blumlein. At the time, there was no available biography for the man who pioneered not only stereo … Read more Blumlein Biography