One last bit of Game Sound Con wisdom…
No matter how great a thing you think you can make on your own, you will always be able to achieve even more when you’re a part of the right team.
inspiring
Your sound design reel won’t buy you a beer.
Time for another inspirational big-idea reminder from Game Sound Con, something I used to struggle with myself: your skills and expertise can’t hire you.
Urgency of now
I had a total blast at GameSoundCon 2022. Just a quick post to share a favorite bit of wisdom from those two days.
Music In The Round… On Your Headphones
With a virtual reality headset you can experience The New Dublin Voices performing Thomas Tallis’ “Spem In Alium” in the round—right in the middle of it.
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Favorite feed: Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast by Defacto Sound
Twenty Thousand Hertz is a great, easy-to-listen-to podcast with stories and interviews about those hidden elements of sound and sound design throughout our world, the ones you might never have considered or even heard of before. The NBC chimes, the voice of Siri, the sounds of the cars we buy, the hum generated by a secret government project—lots of neat little explorations.
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Diego Stocco’s Custom Built Orchestra.
Now here’s a man living out his love of sounds. A great introduction to Diego Stocco via his Custom Built Orchestra:
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Virtual choir: performance, and technology, and… wow.
Composer Eric Whitacre, known for stirring choral compositions, has for several years been doing an experiment he calls “Virtual Choir”. He makes a guide track available for one of his pieces—something to sing along to—and asks the public to record themselves singing their part on camera and send it to him. In this particular rendition, “Virtual Choir 3,” you are apparently hearing 3746 voices from 73 countries performing together. Whoa.
Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 3, ‘Water Night’
The mysterious power of music: Bobby McFerrin and neuroscience.
In some circles this is a genuine oldy-but-goody. Vocal music wizard Bobby McFerrin was part of a panel discussing the intersection of music and the science of the brain, and this really fantastic little musical experiment was part of it.
For more music & mind from Bobby and a stage full of bright people, start here.
The mysterious power of music: music and healing.
A fascinating individual with a great TED talk on a beautiful subject. If you’re interested in the seemingly magical properties of music to affect us in surprising ways, Robert Gupta’s presentations are must-see talks.