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The Sound of Music

24 April 2008 By Harriet 4 In Wild card

Just a quickie from me today. (Phew! I hear you cry). I’m thinking sounds, I’m thinking radio plays and imaginative producers, I’m feeling inspired by a conversation about apples…One of our colleagues here at BioRegional was involved in a live audience recording of apple-crunching at the Barbican. This sound then became part of a tune by a musician called Matthew Herbert. That reminded me of the Star Wars exhibition I went to see in Bradford where they disclosed the secrets of some of the Star Wars sounds. (Don’t read on if you’d prefer to remain in thrall of the force…) Did you know that the noise of the light sabres was made by swinging a microphone behind a telly to pick up the feedback which then became the sound we learned to love…and to fear…

Have you got any secrets about sound?

Love from Steph and The laundry

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4 Responses to “The Sound of Music”

Rachel from the Laundry
Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 9:43 am

I HAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEE the sound of people eating crunchy food, it makes me what to either shout loudly or punch them. I know it’s irrational and extremely intolerant, but I can’t help it. A recording of multiple apple crunchings sounds like a nightmare to me. Other offenders, celary, cucumber, raddishes, grapes (especially when my mum eats them)

Bob
Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 9:46 am

Did you know someone wrote in to complain that the sounds of cows mooing on the Archers was clearly the sound of one cow played many times, he was angry that the sound engineers thought they could hoodwink him, that people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between one cows voice and many cows. They were so impressed that they rerecorded the sounds to a chorus of cows.