Computer Animation Arts

Thom Yorke talks about his soundtrack for the remake of Dario Argento's extraordinary horror film, Suspiria... Suspiria 2018 trailer

I'm clearly going a bit Moana mad, even to the extent of really wanting to buy my niece some slippers with Moana's pet pig Pua's face on them. O' the power of consumerism! Anyway, let's not get all philosophical here, many of you get plenty of that already. This little something will pleasantly borrow your ears while you're hard at work leading up to an imminent crit, or over the Xmas holidays. " Draw me like one of your French pigs. " ( source ) Happy holidays everyone and best of luck to you all, enjoy!

As dissertation pressure looms it's hard to find a way to concentrate. When I was writing mine a savior for me was having the right music to listen to, and the main source for me was a constant stream of classical music. You may already be using sites such as Spotify and YouTube, but a favourite of mine is Last.fm . All you do is type in your genre or desired artist, such as Baroque in this case, click the 'Listen to radio' link and it will generate a radio station with only similar music playing on it. There are few adverts and I found the constant stream of music beneficial because I wasn't always looking for something else and having to click links to remove ridiculously long adverts. I definitely recommend listening to classical music, (I don't know about you) I always want to sing along to music I know and that leads me to lose where I am, whereas classical music is always pleasant in the background! :)

There hasn't been a ' TheTune' for a long time! I listened to this earlier today on BBC Radio 4 and really enjoyed it. It's a fairly technical discussion about how European classical composers like Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg influenced Hollywood film scores from the 1930's onwards. Catch it while it's still available! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m0lv4 "Young British Composer Tarik O' Regan tells the story of how the tradition of Western classical music, its composers and maestros, underpinned the golden age of Hollywood film score. More or less the entire Hollywood music scene, as it blossomed in the 1930s, looked to serious European and Russian composers for film score composition. Stravinsky, Schoenberg, two of the greatest composers of 'serious' 20th century music, both lived and worked in LA - much to the consternation of the European classical music establishment. Many composers on the run from Europe i...

Something elegant and abstract from  Labmeta - Volt  (Alex - this one's for you!) Volt from Labmeta on Vimeo .

Here are two music videos from a band called "Stuck in the sound". This band have really interesting taste for their music videos with lots of obvious references. It is really fun when you can recognize pretty much every scene in the video from somewhere else. First animation is created by a director with a nickname se7en for a song called "Brother" and second video "Pursuit" is an extract from the upcoming album to be released on January 2012 Directed by Caleb Krivoshey and Fortiche. Stuck In The Sound - PURSUIT by stuckinthesound

More John Barry means more James   Bond , and his film score for the fourth in the spy franchise, Thunderball (1965).  This was the Bond movie with the jet pack and much parodied 'pool of sharks'.  Musically, it's got that unmistakeable blend of menace, jazz and big band orchestration that so evokes the time and place of early Bond...  Apparently, after hitting - and sustaining - the last big, ballsy note at the end of the theme song (featured below), Tom Jones fainted in the recording booth! "It was a combination of the time (the early '60s), a collision of musical cultures (the end of the big-band era, the beginnings of rock) and the offbeat qualities of Ian Fleming's creation that led to Barry's unique mix of jazz, rock, pop and traditional orchestral writing. "John is part of the original DNA of the Bond film franchise," says Barbara Broccoli, producer of the Bond films since 1995 and daughter of original Bond producer...

Another of my browsing adventures on internet I came across a really helpful video, to all my fellow creative minds here I share this video. Hope it is helpful!

I've just finished watching Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds and had completely forgotten how good that soundtrack was.  The pieces that grabbed me the most were the orchestral pieces by Ennio Morricone, an Italian composer. " Since 1960, Morricone has scored over 400 films working with many Italian and international directors (among whom Sergio Leone, Gillo Pontecorvo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuliano Montaldo, Lina Wertmuller, Giuseppe Tornatore, Brian De Palma, Roman Polanski, Warren Beatty, Adrian Lyne, Oliver Stone, Margarethe Von Trotta, Henry Verneuil, Pedro Almodovar and Roland Joffè). His most famous films include: The Battle Of Algiers; Sacco and Vanzetti; Cinema Paradiso; The Legend Of 1900, Malena; The Untouchables, Once Upon A Time In America; The Mission and U-Turn. In his long career, Ennio Morricone has received many awards other than the Golden Lion and the Honorary Oscar, among which 8 Nastri D’argento, 5 Baftas, 5 Oscar Nom...

A great site to share with you: soundworkscollection.com. I've included below just one of the featured videos from the site which takes you behind-the-scenes of the sound design for film and animation - The Sound of Transformers 3 . "The goal for the SoundWorks Collection is simple; we are dedicated to profiling the greatest and upcoming sound minds from around the world and highlight their contributions. The SoundWorks Collection was created by Director Michael Coleman in November of 2009 in a partnership with MIX Magazine, several audio focused college schools and programs, and the support of the online sound community worldwide. The SoundWorks Collection takes you behind the scenes and straight to the dub stage for a look into audio post-production for feature films, video game sound design, and original soundtrack composition. This exclusive and intimate video series focuses on individuals and teams behind-the-scenes bringing to life some of the worlds most exciting p...