#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.
Cleveland Show walla group.
I love these guys. I’m glad to have walla back in the (semi-)regular rotation—today we recorded show 301. It was a blast as always. Bobby, Megan, Dan, David and Nikki are all talented and hilarious people, and getting to watch them see an episode for the first time would be fun enough, but then they get to fill it with laughs, screams, mumbling, gibberish and all kinds of goofiness.
Recording DVD commentary for The Cleveland Show and Family Guy.
I recently got to record two very different DVD commentary sessions. One was four or five people for a full episode of The Cleveland Show. The other was a “side-by-side” segment for Family Guy, where the director of an episode was comparing the animatic (black-and-white sketch animation) to the final color version for a few short segments of the show.
I wanted to say a few things about recording DVD commentary, and generally speaking, a full-episode session with several people is significantly more challenging than a two-minute segment with one person, so I’ll focus on that Cleveland session. This setup, though, evolved out of my Family Guy experience and how my counterpart on that show, production mixer Patrick Clark, did it when I was his assistant.
Great new music: Peaks of Valleys, “Fallen Out of Line.”
I have to share some great new music from a friend of mine. Nathan Schafer, working under the name Peaks of Valleys, has just released a fantastic album called Fallen Out Of Line. I think anyone with a love of indie pop or a hunger to discover excellent new music will enjoy this one.
A very Mad Men evening.
Last night I got to see a screening of the Mad Men episode “Suitcase” at the Television Academy, then watched a hosted panel and Q&A featuring producer/creater Matt Weiner and about eight cast members… and then enjoy a reception where most of the actors on the panel hung out to sign autographs and take photos. They were all just fantastic, and the whole thing was a blast.