Hi group! I believe that finding new ways to surprise yourself is absolutely necessary in our line of work. I liked the paper catalogues that came with the...
I totally agree... burroughsian-style sonic cutup is a great way to derail a non-productive fugue. There was an app called soundraider which would plunder your...
Mornin' I find that bouncing ideas of others is very enlightening, but I suppose "others" could be replaced by code. It started by having one sound designer...
The advantage you get from randomly listening to sounds, which you aren't likely to get through suggestions from other sound designers, is that the random...
Hello everyone, Another thing to consider might be Brian Eno's oblique strategies. He developed a series of cards to be used when you don't know where to go ...
Regarding Eno's Oblique Strategies, if you're on Twitter, you might like to follow http://twitter.com/Oblique_Chirps - you'll get an Oblique Strategy every...
Thanks, Paul! By the way, sometimes using clichés is a good advice. Also being obvious to some extent. Many times, young directors or students are desperate...
Yes, one of the eternal questions... How much ambiguity is too much ambiguity? This is an interesting thread. One reason that "oblique strategies" are...
Hi Randy, I agree about weirdness/ greatness ratio and, of course, the ambiguity phobia of studio executives. As you say, the middle ground is a problem, and...
Hi, Gustavo! At Skywalker we have a sound effects librarian who does some of the categorization of sounds. All of us try to use emotion-based descriptive...
Hello to everyone! It`s a common approach in other design areas, like product design. It`s used by writers too. They use it as a way to bring fresch ideas or a...
Hi All, This idea of how much ambiguity can work made me think of Ilya Khrjanovsky's "4" aka "Chetyre" which is a stunning example of a film which finds a...
Aha you've met them then :) One man's chaos is another man's harmony It can end up a bit like Chinese Whispers, which can be seen as random, or more like...
Ben, could you explain further your idea of audio exquisite corpse-ing? I'm familiar with the surrealist game, but I don't think I understand the audio...
I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with ambiguity to such extremes. As a spectator, some of my favorite art encounters have been with great...
Mornin' My usage of the term came about after the process .... Its seems to be more accepted if something has a name We had a fight between two cars - much...
Hi Robin, Pete, In my case, I was referring to the ambiguity excess present in some - otherwise- very conventional narrative fiction film. I not only don't ...
Thanks Gustavo! :) I think you're very right. I'd love to get the opinion of the folks on this list. A lot of what we talk about, and this discussion is...
Hi Robin, I don't have successful strategies for anything! However, I always try to be involved in the projects from the very beginning, at least for talking,...
Frankly, I've spent a significant part of my career trying to shoehorn "sound design" into scenes that had been designed by writers and directors oblivious to...
"unexploded" territory maybe? sorry. I'd love to hear or read more stories about some of my favorite films, especially Lynch. Hope you will write some memoirs,...
Hi everybody: It´s wonderful to read perspectives and the hands on of talented people as Gustavo. It is very intreresting the way you work but as you say...
Hi Ivan, and thanks for the kind words. Fortunately, in this site we can enjoy a lot of sensitive and talented people. Most of all, people that take care of...
HI all! Randy/ Gustavo - I think a book that scales past the "intro to sound" would be fantastic, and so many young sound designers, such as myself, would...
Gary Rydstrom has been promising to write a book on sound design someday. When he gets around to it I know it will be wonderful. I'll probably do one, but it...
Ok, I know this is a longshot. A movie I mixed is being sent out for consideration for the Oscars in all categories, by the production company. The screeners...
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