Foley Recording Adventures for League of Legends with Bryan Higa
July 15, 2019 - 10:45 PM
Foley artist Bryan Higa shares some of his recent recording adventures while working on the video game League of Legends.
Composer Ian Honeyman - Creating A Film Score by Building Instruments
July 06, 2020 - 04:00 PM
Ian Honeyman is a prolific film composer, music producer and multi-instrumentalist. He builds his own musical instruments as well as playing a wide variety from around the world, incorporating them into his scores to create his unique sound. Formally trained in composition at Peabody Conservatory, he combines classical skills, cutting edge production and a focus on using live musicians to create unforgettable film scores.
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Spectravelers release new Sound Library "Submersion - Underwater Sound Library"
March 04, 2019 - 07:30 PM
Submersion is a sound effect library delivering over 1,800 high quality sounds in 377 files (more than 10Gb), from bubbles and impacts over whooshes to ambiences, propellers sounds and many more, this collection has all you need to create an exciting underwater audio experience.
Sounds of Mars: NASA’s InSight Senses Martian Wind
December 25, 2018 - 10:00 PM
Listen to Martian wind blow across NASA’s InSight lander. The spacecraft’s seismometer and air pressure sensor picked up vibrations from 10-15 mph (16-24 kph) winds as they blew across Mars’ Elysium Planitia on Dec. 1, 2018.
Gourski & Appel - Docks
December 24, 2018 - 05:00 PM
Check out an exciting video from Cologne, Germany based Multimedia and Musical Artist Gourski. “Against our fast-moving world, in which media content is often reduced, Jonas and I let inspiration guide us to create a seven and a half minutes long sample project in a docks setting surrounded by abandoned industry.”
The Secret World of Foley
June 16, 2016 - 08:04 PM
‘The Secret World of Foley’, takes us on a journey into the little known world of Foley Artists, who bring films to life by adding sound effects in post-production. We follow a multi-award winning two person team of Foley Artists and watch as they work together to bring to life a film about one morning in the life of a fishing village on the English coast. With their perfectly timed and precisely judged sound effects they transform the film as they interpret every sound detail, using props from their vast props store. This film shines a light on a little known film art form and is a testament to magic and wonder of Cinema itself.
TONSTURM Releases New Sound Effects Library - Ferocious Creatures
June 10, 2016 - 03:33 AM
This library serves you all the roaring, growling, slobbering, squealing, chirping, grunting, choking and gasping you´d ever need to create fascinating and rich sounding creature and monster sound effects or to turn any of your sound design to the dark side. Recorded with up to 100kHz frequency range due to the SANKEN CO-100k microphone, the sounds bear maximum twist and bending possibilities. Simply pitch and zoom into the sound and discover all the feral, brute and ferocious bits waiting to be discovered.
Dolby Atmos Takes You to the Outback in Lynette Wallworth's Collisions
January 28, 2016 - 05:34 PM
Virtual reality (VR) offers storytellers an exciting new format to tell immersive stories and transport audiences in a way that was pure fantasy only a few years ago. Put on a headset with high-fidelity headphones, and suddenly you can be anywhere a filmmaker can imagine, choosing for yourself where to look and how to experience the story with a simple turn of your head.
Worldizing sound recordings as made popular by Sound Designer Walter Murch
December 21, 2015 - 11:18 PM
Check out this video by Hugo Pereira about the technique of worldizing sound recordings as made popular by Sound Designer Walter Murch. Worldizing is manipulating sound until it seemed to be something that existed in real space. This refers to playing back existing recordings through a speaker or speakers in real-world acoustic situations, and recording that playback with microphones so that the new recording takes on the acoustic characteristics of the place it was “re-recorded.”
Cardboard Guitar Stratocaster Fender : Cardboard Chaos
December 04, 2015 - 09:33 PM
Cardboard Chaos is here and it’s time to riff on a new idea! Rock out with your cardboard stock out! This episode we work with a master builder at the Fender Custom Shop to see if paper has the ability to handle the look, feel and sound of one of the world’s most recognizable guitars, the Fender Stratocaster. A master builder can make just about anything look good, but will it sound good? Will it have tone and will it be able to handle the heat and get approval from one who rocks for a living in one of the most ass kicking bands of the last two decades, Linkin Park?! It’s a tall order and with roughly 250lbs of torque put on the neck of a guitar from the strings – We have ourselves a challenge and some Cardboard Chaos!
Ric Viers Releases His 666th Sound Effects Library “Haunted FX”
November 19, 2015 - 07:17 AM
On Halloween 2015, Ric Viers released “Haunted FX” a new horror sound effects library available from Blastwave FX. The library marks lucky number “666” in Viers’ catalog of collections produced throughout his 16 year career. Appropriately, the product contains 666 horror-themed sound effects and debuted with an introductory price of $66 ($99 reg. price). The collection contains over ten hours of spooky ambiences, ghosts, witches, graveyards and things that go bump in the night! The creation of the library was documented in the fifth season of The Detroit Chop Shop Video Diaries, a web show about Ric Viers and the interns at his studio The Detroit Chop Shop. The cover art for the collection was hand-painted by Lucasfilm artists Matt Busch and Lin Zy and features Ric Viers with his interns in front of the Bruce Mansion, an authentic haunted house located in Brown City, Michigan.
The Foley Artist - A Short Film
November 06, 2015 - 01:33 AM
“The Foley Artist” is a charming short which follows a pretty young woman waking up and getting ready to leave the house as a wizened, behind-the-scenes gentleman mimics her every move with a number of inventive props—the palms of his meaty hands, a live duck, a pan of sloppy spaghetti noodles, a gun—that recreate and amplify the sound of her padding around her apartment, washing her hair, painting her nails, eating breakfast, getting dressed, and unlocking the front door.
A Conversation. With Walter Murch
August 25, 2015 - 07:13 AM
Locarno dressed as San Francisco, Piazza Grande that extends itself to look like Union Square. When you’re facing Walter Murch and a Revox, you know right away that something unique is coming. Sounds, reverberations, knowledge, insights. The rest is silence.