Now that my long-malfunctioning site is behaving itself again, I’m overdue to post a big huge congratulations to my wife and her team. Heather, a supervising sound editor and sound designer, along with Advantage Audio colleagues Robbie Smith, J Lampinen, and Roy Braverman took home a 2014 Golden Reel Award.
Legendary movie trailer voiceover artist Hal Douglas passed away Thursday at the age of 89, apparently of complications from pancreatic cancer. I’m sad to have never gotten to meet or record him. What a talent.
Story in the New York Times, selection of Hal Douglas-voiced trailers from The Guardian.
I can’t believe I’ve never seen anyone do this yet. Dave Finlayson, trombonist with the New York Phil, gets clever with his video camera. The performance is great but… I just can’t stop laughing.
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Aside from the entertainment and the performance itself, anyone who wonders how a trombone works is getting a close-up look. You can actually see the various distinct positions the slide has to be held at, and the quick but fluid motion necessary to get between them for a clean change of pitch.
In case you haven’t heard / seen / tinkered with this yet… you have to watch “Old Spice Muscle Music.” And be sure to noodle around with it after the short video is done. As a drummer and sound guy I was weirdly entertained!
Old Spice Muscle Music from Terry Crews on Vimeo.
More accurately, this is about an “acoustic analogue of the black hole,” created in a lab to try to test one of Stephen Hawking’s theories. If the total scientific geekiness of this intrigues you (as it did me) then read on!
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/a-sonic-black-hole