Gianpaolo and Sara from sounDesign ran a panel/workshop last weekend at the Enterferenze New Art Festival, and asked some of us around the world to contribute. The topic was “Design o’ the times” based on the concept of time design.
I have been wanting to create a time-lapse phonography piece for some time now, so I [...]

I ran a competition on Social Sound Design (SSD) where the first person to get the Nice Question Badge would win a signed copy of David Sonnenschein’s book Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema. The winner is Fabrice Million (what a cool name), a Frenchman living [...]

Sorry I haven’t posted anything in a long time. I’ve been very busy and internet is a definite luxury here in South Africa.
I recently was interviewed by sounDesign, a great Italian sound design blog run by Sara and Gianpaolo. Thanks for the opportunity, guys! From what I understand, they are starting an English version of [...]

I’m finally done putting together a Q&A site for us sound designers. I’m very, very excited about this project! Come visit Social Sound Design. It’s 100% free. SSD is brand new and freshly unwrapped, so let’s get the ball rolling with lots of questions, answers and knowledge exchange.
about the project
Sound design has many facets. [...]

Here’s an interesting project that Gabriel G aka AlphaCore is doing. He is coding live using the Ruby programming language to create MIDI events, which are then played through Tweet A Sound.

If you are interested in this kind of stuff, Gabriel has shared his work on the live Ruby music system:
The 3 required files [...]

I got my new computer, and I’m up and running again! I’m so happy. It’s still going to be a little while until I can catch up with everything. So in the meantime, I will share an old project from last March.
In the beginning of the year, I really got into Andy Farnell’s book on [...]

It has been far too long since I have written a post. I am totally absorbed in designing a new programme continuing with the theme of social sound design. It is no doubt keeping me very busy! I will give more details a bit later.
Max/MSP/Jitter Course
Last week I was in London attending an advanced [...]

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Sound Designer’s Telephone Game. It was great fun and in the spirit of Social Sound Design.
The Sound Designer’s Telephone Game started with a field recording of mine which was passed onto thirty people who had volunteered to participate. Each person was permitted to add only one effect. [...]

Remember the game “telephone” where you whisper something in someone’s ear, then the person whispers in the next person’s ear and so on? At the end the last person repeats the words and they usually have nothing to do with the original.
How fun would it be to do the [...]