“So did you record any nice sounds?” “Yes, I caught some trees creaking, that was quite nice!” “Your microphones must be very sensitive, right?” “You mean because I got the trees creaking?” “Yes.” “But you can hear for yourself those trees over there creaking right now.” “Ah!….” I have been trying to force the principle of […]
Having to record sound on a daily basis as a job, I get many new impressions and thoughts. This is a series that will be a way of sharing those. Many of the posts will be very short. Some might also be from other authors. Feel free to leave a comment and contribute with your […]
What does war sound like now? After years gathering ideas of war sounds based on thousands of films, it’s worth to take a look on this link to an interesting article by Vanessa Barford, containing sounds of war from Gaza to WW II. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20400030 And here is an interview with a brave field recordist – […]
Georges Sadoul, on his book Histoire du Cinéma Mondial, des Origines à nos Jours, published in 1949, commented on the revolution that had been taking ground, concerning sound: The flexibility of the magnetic process has allowed to build soundtracks in which the assembly of noise assumes a role as important as the words and music. I assume I have a good translated version of this book, […]
This is one of a series of posts I’d like to keep writing about. To begin, I want to share this amazing article by Dion Hanson of Dolby Laboratories. Bellow, I provide links to clips of films mentioned in the article. I hope you enjoy it! The History of Sound in the Cinema Don Juan (1926): first sound […]
Melissa Pons 