A set of very exciting projects has come my way. I’m in South Africa for a few months recording and designing sound effects for three feature films. I’ve temporarily left New York (hopefully I will find my way back there soon) and its harsh winter for South Africa and its beautiful summer.
bye bye boom boom

Before boarding [...]

I have been insanely busy the last couple of weeks. I’ve been juggling a headphone-based interactive installation and a project exploring “social sound design” through Twitter, I will share it as soon as it is in a presentable form!

For the installation I needed the sound of someone walking above. So I knocked on the door [...]

I built a fun Max/MSP patch that utilises a webcam to interact with a computer-generated fly. The “fly” is created using optical flow-based tracking, which was produced through Jean-Marc Pelletier’s cv.jit externals. They’re great for doing anything with Computer Vision in Max/MSP/Jitter.
As a sound designer, I am obviously more interested in using Computer Vision to [...]

The first half of the recording is dental cleaning, and the second is drilling. Enjoy!
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
I had to get a filling for the first time in years. The last time, I think, was when I was 10 years old. During my checkup last year, I was told I would have [...]

I have been scarce lately, mainly due to a couple of evil deadlines (still going). A little while back I went to get my ears checked out, I received a newsletter from the hearing centre where I got my ears tested and I thought I would share what they had to say. It is a [...]

This the first of hopefully many tutorials. It is a basic run through of the the Soundhack Binaural filter. Soundhack is free and you can download it here. When watching this tutorial you should use headphones.
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/2373090[/vimeo]

If you can spare an hour, I strongly recommend listening to “Musical Language”, a podcast by WNYC’s Radiolab. Not only is the content really interesting, but the sound design is also great.
From Radio Lab’s words, “Musical Language” explores:
What is music? How does it work? Why does it move us? Why are some people better at [...]

As a sound designer, your ears are obviously incredibly important. So what if you start losing your hearing?
I am very careful not to damage my ears. I always keep ear plugs with me and I’m not shy to wear them even if it means having big orange foam things sticking out of my ears. [...]