Halo Waypoint guys released some new Halo 4 videos for reporting the work in-progress of the game.
One of those videos documents the audio work behind Halo 4, showing the team produces the sounds of the game using the field recording technique.
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.
LIVE!IXEM 2010 is the international festival of music, mixed media and experimental electronic arts promoted by AntiTesi (Domenico Sciajno) and U.S.O. Project (Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi) in collaboration with O’ and Die Schachtel, which will held in Italy on october.
The VII edition of the festival is organized in two appointments: a preview event in Turin on 8th october and the real festival in Milan on 29th-30th october.
One of the most important events of the festival is Movimenti di immagini acustiche, a workshop dedicated to field recording (subscription fee: 60 euro, 15 partecipants).
This year Live!iXem has a twin-festival: Ear to the Earth 2010 – Water and the World, an event promoted by the Electronic Music Foundation, which will held in NYC.
Partners: Roland Italy, SMAP (San Marino Audio Project), MIC – Music Information Centre Norway.
Where: O’ via pastrengo 12; Medionauta via Confalonieri 2; VisualContainer via Confalonieri 11, Milano | Isola Passante Ferroviario/M2 Garibaldi, M3 Zara, tram 2, 4, 7, 31, bus 82, 70, 43, Italy.
For information:
AntiTesi www.antitesi.org
IXEM www.ixem.it
U.S.O. Project/Matteo Milani www.usoproject.com
O’ t.02 6682 3357 o@o-artoteca.org
Live!iXem 2010
Another good news for all the sound professionals who are interested in field recordings: our friends Matteo Milani & Federico Placidi from U.S.O. Project and the italian musician Domenico Sciajno organized Movement of acoustic images, a workshop curated by Fabio Orsi and Alessandro Massobrio, which will be held in Milan (Italy) from 29th to 30th October 2010, during the 7th edition of Live!iXem, an international festival of music, mixed media and experimental electronic art, promoted by AntiTesi.
We had a friendly email exchange with Matteo, Federico, Domenico, Fabio and Alessandro in order to have some more information on the festival and the workshop.
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
Quest’estate nei giorni della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia abbiamo avuto il piacere di conoscere il sound designer e studioso di sound art e field recording Yasuhiro Morinaga. E’ con grande piacere che annunciamo la prima edizione di Sound Continuum, conferenza internazionale dedicata alle recording arts e ai sound archive, e in particolare, per questa prima edizione, centrata sul suono e le sue applicazioni all’immagine in movimento, che si terrà a Tokio dal 21 al 23 novembre prossimo.
Nata dalla collaborazione tra l’Università di Tokio (Graduate School of Film and New Media), The School of Sound di Londra, e la Non Profit Organization Image Initiative di Yokohama, la scuola ospiterà, tra gli altri, il grande Chris Watson per un workshop dedicato al field recording e Michel Chion che oltre ad una lecture sull’audiovisione si esibirà anche in una performance live.
sounDesign sarà presente a Sound Continuum con un breve saggio sullo stato dell’arte del sound design in Italia: Being a sound designer in Italy today, pubblicato nel booklet del congresso.
Il festival internazione di live performance e nuova musica si svolge in Canada e nel 2010 presenterà la sua 15esima edizione. Sono aperte le call – scadenza 15 agosto – per presentare lavori di sound art, installazione, papers. Tutti i moduli per partecipare e le info sul sito.