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 [...]

Last week I was on a shoot in a South African township, and there was a chicken coop . It sounded pretty awesome, so I recorded the ambience of it. The recording has unfortunately got traffic sounds, and I had to edit quite a bit around people talking. There is also the sound of [...]

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 [...]

…Frightening me! Galileo, Galileo Figaro…

In summer, Johannesburg gets the craziest thunder showers. They don’t last long, but they are very vicious and sound like no other storms I’ve ever heard.
The other night I recorded a thunder storm. I just love how the thunder keeps on rolling and crackling. You can just picture the sound decaying slowly [...]

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. [...]

Across from my flat a bungee jumping crane set up shop, so I did too.

I brought my tripod for the mic and recording equipment, and recorded the screams of people when they jumped. Very entertaining indeed.

Here is a quick montage of a few of the screams. Because of the crane and [...]

Living in Scotland, you’re bound to hear bagpipes. In fact I hear them most days because I live next to a park where bagpipers like to rehearse. So every now and then you’ll get an entry on bagpipes like this one or “This is Not a Bagpipe”. Today, I recorded two bagpipe players who [...]

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 [...]

The gym I go to has a physiotherapist right below one of the aerobic rooms. I went in to ask a question and could not believe my ears because…
I saw this:

but I should have seen this:

because I heard this:

Poor receptionist!
Download full quality [48kHz; 24bit; 10.3MB] Recorded on Zoom H4n
Well, I have an ulterior motive. [...]

The other evening my girlfriend and I decided to treat ourselves to the guilty pleasures of popcorn and a movie. However, to give myself the illusion of productivity, I recorded the sound. It was my first time making popcorn on the stove, and I got to say how amazing making popcorn that way can sound [...]