Category: Portfolio Work 1: Sound Libraries

When researching Sound Library websites such as A Sound Effect.com You will come across technical specification sheets that you can download for free which contains the contents of the Sound Library. In these tech spec sheets it will typically be a word document with a table that is split up into Rec ID (track numbers),… Continue reading Tech Spec Sheet for Sound Libraries

The second and final sound library album will be based off horror games from the Playstation 1/2 era (1995-2001). The main inspiration for this sound library would be Resident Evil 2 (1997) and Silent Hill 2 (2001). Both these soundtracks were pioneers of mixing genres in game scores, mixing both orchestral, lo-fi and ambient elements… Continue reading Sound Library 2: Lost in Fog

The first library music album will be titled “A Series of Drones”. Within this library album drones of differing style will be available. Drones are incredibly versatile, drones can be low, dark and brooding, such as Colin Stestons score for Hereditary, or Tim Heckers score for Infinity Pool. They can also be peaceful and futuristic,… Continue reading Library Album 1: A Series of Drones

Sound Libraries originated in the 1920s during the silent film era, in the late 1920s technology had evolved to allow film and sound to play alongside each other. Sound libraries were created as a more cost effective way of having a film score without having to pay a composer to write and record original music.… Continue reading A brief history of Sound Librarys

Hainbach is a youtuber and experimental musician that creates music and videos about experimental sound equipment and music. Hainbach has garnered much popularity throughout the last few years, for his interesting deep dives on obscure gear and how he uses it to create experimental music. In his channel he goes through painstaking detail on how… Continue reading Hainbach

In this blog I am to give some reason on why I decided to do this as one of my portfolio pieces. One of the main reasons why would be that I am very keen to work on sound for screen post univeristy. Wether that is being a sound intern on sets, working in game… Continue reading Why Am I Creating 2 Sound Library Albums?

A composition technique I have been experimenting with over the last 3 years has been using microcassette recorders. Microcassette recorders are small tape machine that use a microcassette (1/4 the size of a standard cassette tape). They have a particular lofi quality due to how small and thin the tape is, and also due to… Continue reading Using a microcassette recorder to create compositions

Scoring is often seen as being created all by one person, although that is true to an extent, collaboration in scores is very crucial aspect of creating a varied film score. Collaboration could be the score being composed by two artists or more, such as composer team Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. Or hiring artists… Continue reading Sound Library collaboration

The Koma Elektronik Field Kit is a piece of experimental sound equipment produced by Koma Elektronik. The Field Kit is a device that is made for experimentation in sound which has many ways of producing sound, including a radio, lfo, envelope follower, DC output, and a 4 input mixer to name some of its features.… Continue reading Koma elektronic field kit experimentation

The first concept for one of the portfolio works would be to rescore avant garde short films, I have experiance doing this in the past with David Lynch’s ‘The Alphabet’ for the sound and screen assignment, and Kurt Krens ’10/65: Self Mutilation’ for the gallery 46 project. The feedback from both these projects was great… Continue reading rescoring avant garde short films