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[20 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
SoundWorks Collection:  The Music of “127 Hours”

“The SoundWorks Collection talked with composer A.R. Rahman about his second collaboration with Director Danny Boyle on “127 Hours” following their Oscar winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”.”

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[17 Dec 2010 | One Comment | ]
Happy Holidays!

I’m heading out of California and into the tundra to celebrate the holidays with family and friends.   I’ll be dormant for the next couple weeks but have fun and go easy on the eggnog.  Oh yea, do any of you have any audio related new years resolutions?  I’ve got a few goals I wouldn’t mind [...]

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[15 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
Gear Head: Joe Satriani

More Music Radar goodness.  The guys have posted a video with Joe Satriani going over his setup while on the road.  He shows off his guitars, pedal board and his modified JVM410 Marshall head.  Near the end of the video he goes through his pedal board again, playing back some licks so you can hear [...]

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[14 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
SoundWorks Collection: OK GO “This Too Shall Pass”

The Los Angeles quartet known as OK GO has gone from being a rare young light on a major label to arguably the world’s most bleeding edge independent outfit. The viral music video for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky” was recently remixed in [...]

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[14 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
How To Make A Demo Reel

I stumbled upon a list of instructions from Pixar’s website on how to produce a digestable demo reel.  It’s concerning computer animation and modeling however almost all of the points can be justified for an audio reel except of course maybe number four.

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[13 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
RØDE Rage – You’re Not Alone

No, this video series is not about a self help group that has been wronged by RØDE microphones. I’m actually not quite sure why it’s called RØDE “Rage” because the videos that have been published today have all gone over rather smoothly. Through the jump I have posted interviews with, Scott Gershin, Watson Wu, Alan [...]

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[13 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
Ben Burtt Talks About His New Book On NPR

There has been a NPR interview circling the audio community with Ben Burtt and author J.W. Rinzler discussing the new “Sounds of Star Wars” book.  For those of you that would like to check it out here, I have embedded the audio after the jump.  Enjoy!

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[13 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
Monday Night Listen – #009

Come on guys, you have to participate in order to get the goods.  After the lack of guesses I am unwilling to give up the Kung Fu mastery from the last posting of the Monday Night Listen series.  However, today comes a new post and it gives you yet another chance to redeem yourselves.  This [...]

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[13 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
SoundWorks Collection: Black Swan

“Darren Aronofsky’s (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler) “Black Swan” is a ballet thriller that follows Nina (Natalie Portman) as she is given the lead role in Swan Lake. As Nina sinks deeper and deeper into her role as the Black Swan, her life starts to spin out of control. Aronofsky’s long time sound collaborator, [...]

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[8 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
iOS Audio Design: What Everyone Needs To Know

PJ Belcher has published an article for Gamasutra about his experience developing for the iPhone operating system.