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Sound Design Inspiration #25

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PODCAST

Loving the new Conversations with Sound Designers Podcast hosted by the excellent Peter Rice. This first set of conversations are with UK based Sound Designers who specialise in different areas of Plays and Musicals at differing levels of their careers. It’s incredibly enlightening and interesting to hear the different routes into the industry and how careers shift and change over time. Check it out!

https://uk-podcasts.co.uk/podcast/conversations-with-sound-designers

SOUND EFFECTS

I recently subscribed to ‘Free to Use Sounds’ youtube channel. The name is not really the full picture here. The channel is made by two travellers who specialise in recording sounds in the different locations they visit across the world. Most recently in Kyoto, Japan. They also showcase all sorts of portable audio recording equipment, from affordable ranges to high end gear, so if you’re looking for new equipment, its useful to hear the recordings here beforehand!

SOUND EFFECTS & PODCAST

I recently came across Alice Boyd’s found sounds feature for Ffern’s ‘As the Season Turns’ podcast. Alice has some very useful thoughts about deep listening and it makes me think about taking the time to activley listen, it’s such a great way to engage with the present and, when listening back, remember the feeling you had when visting a new place to record.





Sound Design Inspiration #20

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PODCASTS & VIDEO INTERVIEWS

As we all descended into isolation part of my daily routine starts with a walk and so podcasts inevitably have become invaluable! So I just wanted to share a few I’ve found interesting/inspiring/useful

Firstly the Soundworks Collection podcasts for anyone who hasn’t come across them before, not only do they create Podcasts with insights into industry practices, specific sound/music challenges and processes of films, tv shows, games and advertisements, but also create incredible video interviews with some of the leading pros in the industry. Here’s a couple of podcasts worth diving into:

The Sound of Uncut Gems

Next is Score: The Podcast, which has just begun its 3rd season interviewing Danny Elfman. Robert Kraft and Kenny Holmes host interviews with some of the top film/tv Composers and come across some fantastic routes into the industry, processes of working on all sorts of types of projects and more. Definitely worth having a listen, here’s a couple I’ve had a play through:

Pinar Toprak

Sound Design Inspiration #17

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MUSIC

Found this beautifully intimate session from Jacob Collier and friends at Paste Studio in NY.

Jacob Collier - Vocals, Acoustic guitar, Harpejji | Michael Mayo - Percussion, Uke | Becca Stevens - Charango | Malika Tirolien - Keys | Julia Easterlin - Bass | Christian Euman - Drums

Audio: Bob Mallory - - Video: Brad Wagner

MUSIC

Awesome set from I’m with Her on Tiny Desk, another band so well suited to this intimate style of performance, beautiful songs and harmonies!

PODCAST

I found this awesome podcast all about creative processes, aptly called ‘Creative processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’. He’s just finished ten episodes with a range of artists chatting on the show, one per show. Simply put, they’re answering questions posed by the community around the topic of creative processes, and get into all sorts of avenues in their conversation. It’s in such a great conversational style, and ends up like the auditory equivilent of a mind map on each question. Check it out…

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-processing-with-joseph-gordon-levitt/id1472587591

Sound Design Inspiration #3

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Twenty Thousand Hertz released a super interesting podcast a couple of weeks ago featuring the Data Driven DJ. They talk to Brant Guichard, a man who has heard "The Music" during his seizures since he was a young boy. Taking his EEG readings during a seizure and splicing up a mixture of Imogen Heap's ‘Hide and Seek’, philharmonic samples and experimental percussion. The Data Driven DJ (Brian Foo) created this beautiful piece by using the readings representing the seizure to control the dynamics and intensity (That's a huge over simplification) of the layers...

INTERVIEW

Native instruments posted an interview with Ben Frost talking about the methods he used for this new album The Centre Cannot Hold.
 

NOISE

After living in NY for the last two months, I returned home to a strong awakening of how loud it was there. Not just the hustle and bustle of people, but vehicles, sirens, advertising... it reminded me of this article which describes the high dB levels we encounter on the London Underground system... In essence, get yourself noise cancelling headphones or ear protection for the commute!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42791299