#7daysofVGM: a thrilling compositional sprint
The #7daysofVGM Composition Challenge is a semi-regular week-long event coordinated by the Video Game Music Academy. It’s basically a compositional sprint—or rather, seven of them in a row. There is...
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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.
Everything is a drum: two large men edition
By now these guys have been on late-night TV and tons of folks have seen them. But it’s so good I had to help spread the word anyway. Here is “Tummy Talk 2”:
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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.
What a music recording engineer actually does.
Fantastic, short, hilarious video formerly known as “The profession of a sound engineer 2013.”
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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:
The EQ of Food: Torpedo IPA.
A while back I realized I think of the taste of a beer in terms of a frequency response curve. Here’s the latest: The EQ of a Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA. Plus a few questions and observations, mostly about how nuts this all makes me sound.
Dave Pensado interviews Claudio Cueni on editing dialogue for a holographic performer.
At a recent incarnation of the huge Coachella music festival in California, a hologram of deceased rapper 2Pac “performed” on stage, including some introductory words. Someone had to do the work of sifting through recordings of 2Pac and cutting together the right takes to make a convincing performance. That someone was Claudio Cueni, who says he spent two and a half days just cataloguing every piece of 2Pac audio that had been made available to him. In this episode of the popular Pensado’s Place podcast, Cueni talks about that and other things—like the challenge of creating words that 2Pac had never been recorded saying.
Orchestras through the eyes of GoPros.
24 GoPro cameras distributed among the players and instruments of the Czech Philharmonic under maestro Manfred Honeck. Some neat points of view, especially if you’ve never played in an orchestra before.