Pete Malkin 8/11/22 Pete Malkin 8/11/22

Sound Design Inspiration #24

Interview

Great interview with Dubbing Mixer, ADR Recordist, Sound Editor, Emma Butt, diving into some of the nuances of working in the film/tv sound industry, some of the differences in genres, and diversity in sound departments.

https://sound.krotosaudio.com/emma-butt-sound-interview/

Composer Insights

For those interested in the inside scoop of the Film composition world, I recently found Anne-Katherin Dern’s youtube channel, with lots of super interesting behind the scenes chats around her working process and the industry, check her out and subscribe!

http://www.annedern-filmcomposer.com/youtube/

Theatre

New Diorama Theatre have announced an intervention. There will be no shows this season in order to pause the continuous nature of having to programme new shows. This means they’re able to offer space, time, resources and money to creators with ideas which would otherwise not get a chance to be properly experimented with and developed. This includes ideas from anyone, not just writers and directors.

Coming out of the pandemic, trying to get shows up and running again, whilst planning and preparing what comes after that and the constant push to produce in shorter periods with less resources is a struggle which resonates across a lot of the creatives I know and work with in the industry. Since then there has been constant chatter about changing the way we create to allow for a process which is less conducive of burnout, and certain companies and theatres have made great leaps towards that, but it is certainly not industry wide. The decision by the New Diorama Theatre to not run any shows this season, is a chance for theatre creatives to re-consider the way theatre is created and hopefully come back with a much better sense of what needs to change to make it a healthier environment, and a more creatively fulfilling one.

Pete Malkin 11/8/19 Pete Malkin 11/8/19

Sound Design Inspiration #17

MUSIC

Found this beautifully intimate session from Jacob Collier and friends at Paste Studio in NY.

Audio: Bob Mallory - - Video: Brad Wagner

MUSIC

Awesome set from I’m with Her on Tiny Desk, another band so well suited to this intimate style of performance, beautiful songs and harmonies!

PODCAST

I found this awesome podcast all about creative processes, aptly called ‘Creative processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’. He’s just finished ten episodes with a range of artists chatting on the show, one per show. Simply put, they’re answering questions posed by the community around the topic of creative processes, and get into all sorts of avenues in their conversation. It’s in such a great conversational style, and ends up like the auditory equivilent of a mind map on each question. Check it out…

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-processing-with-joseph-gordon-levitt/id1472587591

Pete Malkin 3/30/18 Pete Malkin 3/30/18

Sound Design Inspiration #2

SOUND DESIGN

I still haven't managed to see it yet, but came across a cool breakdown of the multiple layers of audio in a scene from Bladerunner 2049

FREE SOFTWARE INSTRUMENT

Strezov Sampling have been giving away this beautiful Duduk vst, I've been trying out in a track or two and it's very easily playable and has slotted in around the rest of my template pretty quickly.

Free Duduk VST

MUSIC

As I put Yo-Yo ma into my 1st scrapbook, I carried on listening to his works and to "The Goat Rodeo Sessions" album and found some awesome live studio performance videos.

FREE APP

I came across this Mini spotify player that sits in your notification centre, pretty neat and just stays open, links to the album art of Spotify and will open spotify when you hit play if it's not already there!

Pete Malkin 10/28/14 Pete Malkin 10/28/14

Music world of October

Each month I setup a new playlist on spotify full of bits of music I've never listened to before, I thought i'd share a few that stood out over the month and some more recent finds. I'm really interested in some of the Orchestral/Electronica crossovers going on and becoming more aware of it, so these are aimed in that direction.

Koan Sound & Asa - Mix of Small orchestral arrangments with electronic beat taking focus.