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How to fall in love with football for its sound: a sound ethnography

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Sound designers do it different, we all know that. And Italians love football, it’s another dogma that we do not doubt upon.

But when I met Davide Tidoni and his project called The Sound of Normalization I thought that, well…this was really a different way to love football and work with sound at the same time. I wanted to know more about it and I’m sure you want to know more, too….

Since 2002 Davide is investigating the football supporters subculture, dominated by the use of sound as a real weapon. He documented all his work recording the football chants and organized sounds during football matches and here what he told us about his amazing field recording experience.

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Photographs of phonograph records: novel techniques to create digital audio archives

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All you sound guys know that sometimes we want so show how much we’re brave, so in these days in which all the community is going crazy for the Legacy of Tron sounds, we publish an article talking about the folk songs of italian immigrants in the U.S. one century ago, the historical importance of shellac discs and some experimental techniques to create digital audio documents using a digital camera.

Let’s get straight to the point: a group of italian researchers developed Photos of GHOSTS (Photos of Grooves and Holes, Supporting Tracks Separation), a software which is able to reconstruct the sounds of phonograph records starting from the photographs of the surface of the disc. This new technique could be a great solution for some important issues as: automation of the digitization process for audio documents, music restoration, audio extraction from damaged supports and so on.

We had a long and visionary interview with Sergio Canazza, team leader of the project and assistant research professor at the Sound and Music Computing Group of the Department of Information Engineering (University of Padova, Italy), who told us the amazing story behind this project and described the current trends of the research in the field of audio restoration.

Sergio Canazza

Sergio Canazza

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An interview with Hugo Verweij – 5 questions to the man behind the 5 questions project

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If you are a lucky maybe your job is also your passion. And if you are very passionate about your job, you will look for a way to learn more, a day after the other, about your job, your work, your passion. And more, if you are very lucky you can share your passion with other fellow guys around the world.

And this is the story of a guy who found a way to learn more about the world and job he loved, and ended up creating a blog where, among other things, he asks people why they love what he loves…Sound!

After Tim Prebble, Andrew Spitz, Miguel Isaza, we asked a few questions to Hugo Verweij -  the man behind the blog Everyday Listening – about his sonic inspirations. Here you are…

Hugo Verweij at work

Hugo Verweij at work

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An interview with Miguel Isaza – Designing Sound and Sonic Terrain

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If you don’t like happy-ending stories maybe now it’s the time to change your mind. A guy from a small town in Colombia fell in love with Sound, left the traditional school and decided to use the web as a tool to educate himself and then create a place called Designing Sound, a passionate blog devoted to the world of sound design for visual media.

The name of this guy is Miguel Isaza and he is the perfect man for this crazy era: he knows how to spread a tweet and write a good blog title, believes to the promotion of a world wide community for sharing experiences or ideas, and, last but not least, he aspires to be a sound designer…can you ask for more?

We wanted to interview Miguel for a long time but today is the right day, because together with a bunch of other Sound super heroes he launched Sonic Terrain, a brand new project dedicated to the world of field recordings. Here we go…

Miguel Isaza

Miguel Isaza

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An Interview with Andrew Spitz – Social Sound Design

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If you ask yourself what new recorder to buy or if you are the only sound designer in the world being offered to work for free, now you know you’ve got to check out Social Sound Design, the new project of the sound designer – and of course the author of one of the best and most well-known blog {sound+design} – Andrew Spitz.

Andrew Spitz

Yes, he’s the guy of Tweet A Sound and The Telephone Game. We looked for him to get a bit deeper on the birth and evolution of Social Sound Design, and – why not – to investigate his point of view on our favorite subject, sound design.

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Tim Prebble’s new project: HISS and a ROAR

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Tim Prebble is one of the most active sound professionals in the 2.0 era of Internet. Film sound designer and supervising sound editor living at Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (the other part of the world for us, you know…), Tim created a lot of interesting web projects dedicated to the world of Sound, like the amazing blog Music of Sound.

Now it’s time for another great project: HISS and a ROAR, a new sound effects library for sound professionals. It’s the same old story in the world of social media: Tim and us are very lovely tweet-connected, so we soon discovered what was going in the air. We watched a very funny video anticipation called Vegetable Violence on the Vimeo universe and then…here we go: the exclusive interview with Tim about HISS and a ROAR, just few hours after its official launch.

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