Weekly sounds: predictions on Oscar, Rovio is hiring, Call for Papers in Functional Sounds, new SFX library from Hiss and a Roar

European Sound Studies Association

From today we start a new category called Weekly sounds, a regular edition of quick articles to help you to stay up to date on what’s hot in the world of Sound.  We hope you will enjoy us and follow us in this new adventure.

Who will be the next Sound hero during the Grammy awards night? Brad Brevet from Rope of Silicon forecasts the names in 2013 Oscar Predictions: First Look at Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.

If you need some cool noisy sounds then you better read/listen The Surprisingly Awesome Sound of 156 Office Machines from the 60s: an article dedicated to the composer Rolf Liebermann and his short song for 156 machines, like typewriters, calculator machines, office perforators, metronomes and so on.

As you can see during these last weeks we are doing our best to find the best job opportunities for professionals in the field if Sound and so here we go with something amazing: Rovio Entertainment is seeking for a Senior Sound Designer, do you want to enter into the angry team in Finland?

European Sound Studies Association

In the field of sound research there is a very interesting opportunity proposed by the European Sound Studies Association: the Call for Papers for its first international conference Functional Sounds: Auditory Culture & Sound Concepts in Everyday Life, which will take place in Berlin in October 4-6, 2013.

Our friend Tim Prebble is unstoppable: he released the new Hiss And A Roar library called Amb003 White Water, a sound monster in 24bit, 96kHz  and composed of 7.9GB uncompressed as 55 .WAV files.

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Gianpaolo D'Amico