Hello, world.
Sound and Digital Signal Processing is an incredible medium - I manipulate digital signals which tell speakers how to vibrate and create compression waves which are then decoded by our brains to create visceral experiences. It's an abstract kind of magic which can touch the deepest parts of our souls and connect with people on a profound level.
I love honing my craft and making this magic while creating story rich, lush, and immersive environments and soundscapes.
Join me as I share stories of discovery from deep dives into niche audio worlds.
As this website progresses, I will update this first hello-world blog post with audio related quotes.
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
- George Lucas
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
— David Lynch
I'm a firm believer in computerized mixing. When I start a project, I store the balance levels in the computer--for emotional reasons, not a technical reason. The reason is that's the first time I react instinctively to the music and I want that not to be thought out at all--I want it to be purely instinctive. It's amazing as a recording progresses and you begin to improve it, how that so-called improvement can be a problem. I always store that first tracking date...and almost always refer back to itThe sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
- Bruce Swedien
It’s funny--when you're recording, you have wonderful, wonderful sounds, but by the time you compress and all those sounds are on top of each other, you've lost the beautiful sound you had originally. In recording, you need to be careful of how much stuff to put on, because actually, for some reason, there's only so much space. I’d like to think that we’re going to move away from that pretty soon with polyphonic recordings and the development of spatial recording.
— Jon Anderson
The world today is moving fast. Musicians happen to be at a stage where how fast you can play is the important thing. It's not what you're saying, it's not the music any more--a player is judged by his speed. The criteria should be what the message is, what the story is. What's the bottom line? It shouldn’t be how fast you can play the run, but can you keep time? Do you have a heart, do you have a soul, what’s your message? And that gets kicked aside.
— Les Paul