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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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Movement of acoustic images: a workshop in Italy on Field Recording during the Live!iXem festival

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Live!iXem 2010

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.

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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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Haptic Audio royalty free audio content for sound professionals who like strange noises

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Haptic Audio

Maybe one of the most important trend for the community of Sound this year is the phenomenon of the distribution of high quality audio contents via the Internet. We came to a new stage of evolution, starting from the well-known platforms SoundCloud and SoundSnap and going to projects like Tim Preeble’s HISS and a ROAR, Frank Bry’s The recordist, Chuck Russom FX and others (for a great list read: Independent SFX Libraries by Designing Sound).

Today we introduce Haptic Audio, a new project dedicated to provide royalty-free audio samples, kits, and instruments in (multi-format) 24 bit audio, founded by Jeremy Goldstein and Patrick Campbell, two sound designers and traditional musicians who decided to release their creative output using the web as the preferred platform of distribution.

We interviewed Jeremy and Patrick to know something more about this new project (you can watch the amazing video excerpt below), which recently created its SoundCloud channel and released the brand new Haptic04 libray on the Twisted Tools platform.

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Interferenze new arts festival in Italy

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Interferenze Festival

Interferenze Festival

If you have someone in love living in Italy you know that we’re famous not only for pizza or mandolino (nice tool for the experimental sound designer…), but also because we got heart. Yes, we have a big heart. And some events can be organized only by people with a lot of heart. Like this festival.

Interferenze is an event dedicated to art and new technologies that will held in Italy from 23th to 25th July 2010. The location of this edition is the town of Bisaccia, placed along the eastern slopes of the hills of Irpinia. For three days this will be the place in which international artists, musicians, curators and researchers will meet together and give their contributions for workshops, concerts, live performances and installations.

We’ll be part of this big family, because I, Sara and Luigi Mastrandrea will lead a panel/workshop on Saturday 24th July called Design o’ the times, based on the concept of Time Design promoted by Albert Mayr.

Finally, we had a very deep and interesting digital conversation with Leandro Pisano, curator, writer and director of the festival, to know more about this amazing event in which Sound has inevitably a predominant role.

Leandro Pisano

Leandro Pisano

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Ommmwriter: can sound design help to create the emotional software?

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We’re very interested in sound design for everyday objects. Mr. Donald Norman should be very happy about this, we’re sure. But this the digital era and then maybe the object we’re using mostly during our day is called Max for Live, Logic or Ocarina. In few words: software.

Now the spanish agency Herraiz Soto & Co comes up with this idea: a software called Ommwriter, a very simple text editor which helps the user to focus his attention, removing external distractions and improving the creative process.

Some bloggers are calling it Zen software, we would like to propose a new name: emotional software. If you download Ommmwriter (free but only Mac now, sorry…) you coud realize that one of the most important feature is the selection of the soundtrack. And this explains our interest…

We wanted to know more about this project and then we reached for Julian Watts from Herraiz Soto & Co and David Ummmo, the music composer behind the sound of the software.

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A summer school in Finland for product sound design

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Product Sound Design Summer School

We just posted about Sonic Interaction Design and the importance of the COST Action IC0601 on SID for the development of this new discipline, which is gaining a relevant role in the world of sound design.

Some members of the SID Action and the Design Factory of the Aalto University organized the Product Sound Design Summer School in August 23-26 2010, at Espoo, Finland, with the aim to educate the future product design and development team members with a specific competence on interactive sound.

We interviewed Stefano Delle Monache, one of the organizers, to better know issues and objectives of the course.

Stefano Delle Monache

Stefano Delle Monache

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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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Five Sound Questions to sounDesign

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Gianpaolo D'Amico and Sara Lenzi. Photo by Nunzio Talamo.

Gianpaolo D'Amico and Sara Lenzi. Photo by Nunzio Talamo.

If you still don’t know Everyday Listening now it’s the right time. Hugo Verweij is the creator of this wonderful blog dealing with art, inspiration and creativity in the field of music and sound.

Some months ago Hugo had this nice idea of creating Five Sound Questions, a series of small interviews to discover the most intimate side of professionals and artists who work with Sound in many ways. The list of people who joined Hugo’s initiative is very interesting: Zimoun, Stephen Gallagher, Anna Friz, Miriam Lohan, Stephen Cornford, Olle Cornéer and Martin Lübcke, Verónica Mota, Yuri Suzuki, Alyce Santoro and Jack Pavlik.

If you’re curious, these are the questions:

  1. What sound from your childhood made the most impression on you?
  2. How do you listen to the world around you?
  3. Which place in the world do you favor for its sound?
  4. How could we make sound improve our lives?
  5. What sound would you like to wake up to?

Now the time has come. Hugo sent us his invitation to partecipate, then I and Sara put our head on the floor with our usual headphones and asked our friend Nunzio Talamo to shoot some photo. We had a lot of fun and then we got inspired for the sound answers too: this is our personal contribution to the 5 questions series.

Hi Hugo, thank you very much.

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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