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.
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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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Walter Murch and the rule of six.
Needs-no-introduction editor Walter Murch on six criteria by which to judge the worth, quality, and necessity of an edit.
A great article on a superb sound designer.
Here’s an excellent article in The Guardian by Jordan Kisner about veteran sound designer Skip Lievsay, whose credits include No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Waiting for “Superman”, Men In Black, Fargo, Silence of the Lambs, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and Goodfellas.
Morten Lauridsen shows you how to write a song.
In a great little seven-and-a-half-minute video courtesy of classicalchops.org, Morten Lauridsen takes us through the compositional process behind one of the most performed choral pieces of our time, Dirait-On. (French, pronounced something like “dee-ray-tawn”.)
Bear McCreary’s interview with Bruce Broughton on scoring for animation.
Here’s a treat: composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, Human Target, Caprica, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) interviews composer Bruce Broughton (Gunsmoke, Logan’s Run, Hawaii Five-O, Dallas, Tiny Toon Adventures, Tombstone). A really superb interview full of great insight, spot-on advice, stories and opinions from two total pros.
Find it on bearmccreary.com here.
David Ricard on cartoon composing.
Considering a career in scoring for film and television? Here’s a 2009 article in Sound on Sound by Dave Ricard that walks through the low-to-mid-budget process nicely, albeit with a bewildering “it’s not so hard” button on the end of it. I don’t know any professional composers who don’t work really, really hard. (Check out my interview with Bear McCreary to hear more on this.) Maybe Dave Ricard is just lucky.
Find out more about David Ricard’s composing, big band, and production music on his website, lesterbeat.com. Or see his list of television scoring credits stretching back about ten years on IMDB. He’s currently scoring Warner Brothers’ The Tom and Jerry Show.
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Great industry interviews from L.A. Sound Group.
Gary Bourgeois, Jeff Wexler, Mark Mangini. If those names don’t mean anything to you, do nothing. If you’re experiencing a little bit of excitement just reading those names, you need to see these videos from LASG: Los Angeles Sound Group. They’re sort of a combination of interview and Q&A and they involve some of the biggest names in the business.
They’re at lasoundgroup.com. I was at the Mark Mangini event and found it downright inspiring. Huge thanks to my friend Steve Urban and the other fantastic people at LASG for sharing with the world. Keep up the great work!
Favorite feed: Woody’s Sound Advice by Woody Woodhall.
It’s infrequently updated and simply presented, but Woody Woodhall’s site, “Woody’s Sound Advice,” has some great stuff. This can lead them to be better (at anything you choose) today viagra...