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10 Beautiful and Dark Sound Designs
This collection of Beautiful and Dark Sound Designs will focus primarily on that genre known as Dark Ambient. Dark Ambient is an emotive composition style used to bring an ‘epic quality’ to cinema and gaming.
“If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go.
Listening to something is an act of surrender.” (Brian Eno)
The Darker Side
Brian Eno is commonly hailed as the innovator of the Ambient Music style.
The darkest of Eno’s early works is ‘Ambient 4 : On Land’ (1982). It is a collage of electronic and acoustic sounds that creates a mysterious otherworld landscape.
Where Ambient Music is concerned with background textures and soundscapes (oftentimes experimental in style) – Dark Ambient as a genre is characterized by greater diversity of musical form.
Shanghai Pop Culture Project
The Shanghai Pop Culture Project is worth a look, nice music and a great swag of… well, pop culture from shanghai all presented in a nice flash package. Contact Roundhouse Now! Book an obligation free consultation to find out more and learn how to leverage mobile technology to grow your opportunities and business revenue.
Uniqlo Calender
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Game Themes List : Top 20 (part 2)
“Men are but flesh and blood. They know their doom, but not the hour.” (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)
Welcome to part 2 of our top 20 list ‘o’ Games Themes.
Great design – sound and visual – is an asset that pays great dividends to developers and users alike. The success of an epic game is built upon an epic soundtrack.
We have searched for those themes that stay with you long after the credits have rolled.
The Good Muse-ic.
Diablo Soundtrack – Tristram Village
A real classic score in the world of gaming
Game themes list top 20 (part 1)
“War. War never changes.” (Fallout)
The lines between film and gaming continue to blur
A theatrical soundtrack is essential: gaming is an immersive cinematic experience. Appreciation for video game music as an art genre continues to grow
The melodies and themes featured below are all thoughtfully resolved pieces of music, that offer listening pleasure beyond the context of the game for which they were written. Today, it is quite common for such music scores to be performed by philharmonic orchestras around the world
We offer these top soundtrack in no particular order, but as a collection of well crafted gaming themes for your listening pleasure
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Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit) Main Theme
Very beautiful music written by Angelo Badalamenti
IdN – 100 Issues and still going strong
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5 Amazing Sound Design Resources You Should Bookmark
As a sound designer, it pays to keep informed. Learning new things and keeping up to date with what is ‘out there’ is essential. Tools, resources, information – knowing where they are when you need them is important. Additionally, there is a rapidly developing sound design community that surrounds the latest technologies. It is great […]
A funny thing happened to me on the way to a Shamanic Ceremony
Our good friend Stuart Pridham is abroad, taking audio snapshots of events as they unfold. The first of these he sent us is from Nako in eastern Himachal Pradesh. In his words: The first recording was ‘a funny thing happened to me on the way to a shamanic ceremony’. There was an optional votive hike […]
Star Wars and the Sound Revolution of ’77
The Force / Of Sound
“It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.”(Star Wars Episode IV)
The success of Star Wars was underpinned by the creative brilliance of Sound Designer Ben Burtt.
George Lucas’ resolution of diverse story elements – from fantastical characters to futurescape weaponry and worlds – is indebted to the imaginative sound solutions intuited by Burtt.
Sound Maketh the Man
Consider Vader, R2D2, The Lightsabre, The Tie Fighter
Sound Design – How to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
A definition in terms: Comfort – a physical or moral experience of safety/ ease/ consolation. Zone – an area/ partition / region of distinction The Quiet Art of Discomfiture Comfort zones – vital as they are – embody the ‘now’ Now is good – new is hard Creativity needs ‘new’ But we already know / […]
