Saturday, December 7, 2013

Hollywoods History of Faking It | The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Some More on Sound Artists

Matthew Herbert:

A sound artist who documents the life of a pig and its symphony of sounds from birth to death. Hebert is the height of eclecticism and completely dominates his field for the most original idea and soundtrack. Here's a snippet from the article:

"Last August, music producer Matthew Herbert (above) invited 40 people to a restaurant in Farringdon, London, to eat a pig -- on condition that he could record them doing so. Ten chefs, including Ramsay alumnus Jason Atherton and offal-specialist Fergus Henderson, cooked ten courses, from spiced braised pig's head to fried tail. Guests took their food to a corner of the room where a sound technician asked them to "chew as loudly as possible, please" into two microphones. "I wanted to acknowledge every bite of it," says Herbert."

Catherine Yass:

A sound artist who investigated the creative potential of destruction by the sounds of scrapes and smashes in her project Piano Falling.

Yann Seznec:

A sound artist who makes synthesizers that fit in jam jars, and has given mushroom spores a voice.

Ronald van der Meijs:

A sound artist who the brains behind a project called Sound Architecture IV that is made from 5,000 repurposed bicycle bells set on steel pins.

Daniel Palacios:

“A long piece of rope represents a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also creates the sound by cutting through the air.”

Luka Fineisen:

A german sound artist who has scattered giant bubbles throughout a gallery floor

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot:

A sound artist who installed a piece that allowed 40 finches to hop delicately through a dense matrix created from hundreds of metal hangers causing vibrations and clinks that mix with the birds natural songs.

And finally, a sound experience created by artists:

Wet Sounds effectively creates three sound spaces in the physical space of the swimming pool. One inside the water, one outside the water and one a merger of the two as the listener floats on the surface of the water. Touring swimming pools, it presents listening sessions to a floating and diving audience in the water. The participants are fully immersed in sound. Free to move weightlessly in the sound space. Wet Sounds, created by Joel Cahen, first toured 10 cities in the UK in July 2008.

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