Interview with Randy Thom on LeftLion

Posted On 28 Jun, 2012 - By Gianpaolo D'Amico - With 1 Comment

Randy Thom

What is: Sound pioneer Randy Thom was interviewed by LeftLion magazine in occasion of his invited talk at the Institute for Screen Industry Research at Nottingham University.

Why it is interesting: Randy talked about the role of the sound designer for film today, his work with Robert Zemeckis and his first work experience in Apocalypse Now.

Perfect sentence:

Sound people are often referred to as engineers and though, like people in most crafts these days, you have to be a bit of an engineer and know a bit about technology. But the most important thing you do is make artistic decisions; you need to figure out whether a sound is appropriate in a given scene and that’s really what I’m hired to do…

Full story: LeftLion

Gianpaolo D'Amico

Gianpaolo D'Amico is a Research fellow at MICC and indipendent creative technologist for digital media. He is the founder of sounDesign and a music addicted since he was 0 years old.