Sound Design Online Materials

MUS 496H/HL Sound Design for Multimedia

Online Materials

The following are links to useful articles and other online resources:

Sound By Design by Nick Peck (Electronic Musician, March 1, 2001)
Sound By Design by Nick Peck (this version includes the graphics, but also ads)
Favorite Effects Tips from the Trenches by Nick Peck (Electronic Musician, March 1, 2000)
Filmsound.org: Film Sound Design---Film Sound Theory (good resource for articles, etc.)
Tricks and Techniques for Sound Effects Design by Bobby Prince (from Gamasutra site)
Article on Sound Design for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Blair Jackson (Mix Magazine, Jan. 2003)
Article on the "Wilhelm" sound effect
Compilation of film scenes involving the Wilhelm effect
Track Stars, a short film purporting to show the foley process (hilarious and illuminating!)
A list of "goofs" from Star Wars episode V ("The Empire Strikes Back"): near the bottom is the error that I showed in class.

Conversations with Cage by John Dilberto (Electronic Music, March 1988)
Digits on the Historical Pulse by Douglas Kahn [Essay to Accompany the Pulsefield International Exibition of Sound Art]
Plunderphonics by John Oswald

Interactive Web Music by Scott R. Garrigus (Electronic Musician, October 1999)
Music for New Media by Peter Drescher (Electronic Musician, December 2000)
Cartoon Cut-ups: Editing Music for TV Animation by Erik Hawkins (Electronic Musician, June 2001)
Adventures of a Composer Creating the Game Music for Grim Fandango by Peter McConnell (Electronic Musician, September 1999)

Picture Perfect Sound by Gene Takahashi (Electronic Musician, September 1999)
Letter in Response to Picture Perfect Sound by Evan Chen (Electronic Musician, November 1999)
That Synching Feeling by Rob Schrock (Electronic Musician, October 1996)