There are about a half a dozen animals involved in his “voice”: a whale (for the breathing), lions, alligators and tigers (for the low frequencies of roaring), an elephant (his primary, gut-busting roar) and a freaking koala (for the grunting).

Great article on cracked.com about 5 funny and extraordinary Movie Sound Effects.

Outstanding web video Series about the “Remix-Culture” :

Remixing is a folk art but the techniques are the same ones used at any level of creation: copy, transform, and combine. You could even say that everything is a remix.
To support this series please visit everythingisaremix.info/donate/

For further information and additonal web videos visit: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/

rheo: 5 horizons
RYOICHI KUROKAWA

Audiovisual installation
2010
5 HD displays | 5ch multi sound
Duration: 08’00″ Loop

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Heart-warming music video by Nabil Elderkin for Bon Iver.

The minute is a special place, unseen microcosmos within a unseen universe bind us together.
Our creative vision is to continue our conversation with the Macro Kingdom.. an ongoing poem
in the tradition of the two previous films.

So, what is it about the scaled down infinate? certainly not unappreciable.. as you can see and hear..
we bring to life, forms, shapes, ideas.. We bring to life your attention… This regal landscape of atomic proportion.

The sounds, created from found objects, the camera capturing moments in detail too easy to ignore.
brought to your attention by Clemens Wirth, and crafted sonically by Radium Audio.. creators of detail – enhanced listening experts.
enjoy

Video by Clemens Wirth vimeo.com/?clemento
Music & Sound Design by Radium Audio radium-audio.com/?
Vocals performed by Melanie Pappenheim melaniepappenheim.com/?

be sure to check out the making of music & sound design on macro kingdom 3: vimeo.com/?22286867

Beautiful clip.

Realtime sound visualisation made with custom software “Partitura”
Sound by Telefon Tel Aviv

an ongoing collaboration between Abstract Birds and Quayola

Partitura is a custom software to generate realtime graphics aimed at visualising sound. The term “Partitura” (score) implies a connection with music, and this metaphor is the main focus of the project. Partitura aims to create a new system for translating sound into visual forms. Inspired by the studies of artists such as Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oscar Fischinger and Norman McLaren, the images generated by Partitura are based on a precise and coherent system of relationships between various types of geometries. The main characteristic of this system is its horizontal linear structure, like that of a musical score. It is along this linear environment that the different classes of abstract elements are created and evolve over time according to the sound. Partitura creates endless ever-evolving abstract landscapes that can respond to musical structures, audio analysis and manual gestural inputs. It is an instrument that visualises sound with both the freedom of spontaneous personal interpretation/improvisation and at the same time maintaining the automations and triggers of mathematical precision.

Partitura defines a coherent language of its own for the creation of new contemporary abstractions. It is within this system that Partitura creates worlds that expand from a single dot to multiple galaxies, from minimalism to complexity, from rigid to elastic, from solid to liquid, from angular to smoothness, from tentative to boldness, from calm to agitation, from slow to fast, from desaturated to saturation, from dark to lightness, from predictable to unpredictability. Literally ‘everything’ and its opposite… just like a musical flow.

Markus Wagner finished his work on the video for my personal project Amongst Giants.
I am very pleased with the result – but see for yourself…

If you are interested in Markus Wagner’s work check out his website here.
Additional credits for animation go to the rest of the lzw crew!

You can check out and buy the complete album on bandcamp.

Today by Jonathan Harris

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Beautiful Opener for the Kurz und Schön Shortfilm Festival.

Production: Feedmee Design
Sounddesign: Loy production

Simple and beautiful animation and music by Renaud Hallée.