The Man Who Makes Hollywood's Smallest Sounds

Re:The Man Who Makes Hollywood's Smallest Sounds by clay_to_n on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @02:49AM (#9302011)

Awesome. I have a lot of respect for people who do this for a living - such an interesting profession, and one that, at its best, is completely unnoticeable.

In music, I always love weird samples - things that you don't get out of sample packs or drum machines. I think I got into it from IDM music, and the work of the Japanese artists Kashiwa Daisuke and World's End Girlfriend - they'd use these samples that make you feel like you're in a movie scene, yet fit beautifully in with the music. The breath sample at 4:58 in Kashiwa Daisuke's Stella is a memorable one.

Also interesting to see weird samples hit the pop consciousness - obviously the multitude of "Ha", "Uh", and "Hoo" samples in modern hip-hop come to mind, but also the weirder ones like the bed springs you hear in Jersey Club and trap music (google "trap bed springs sample" for examples).

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Re:The Man Who Makes Hollywood's Smallest Sounds by ChikkaChiChi on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:14AM (#9303686)

The level of creativity is astounding. I remember a documentary where Ben Burtt walks out into a field, hits a high tension cable with a tuning fork, and that becomes the sound for blaster rifles in Star Wars.

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