Leading Leaders is a non-profit educational organization that teaches kids about art, understanding art, and helping kids express themselves and their feelings through art. Our music is featured in this really nice YouTube film documenting the project. In the film we get to learn about the project and to hear some insights from teachers, volunteers […]
Month: January 2012
Mixing as part of the music composing process, Part 2
by Kole Hicks In part 1 of this 2 part series, the idea of combining the mixing & composition processes were introduced… “Pre-meditated Mixing” if you will. Many of the potential benefits were laid out and even a few arguments on when it may not be practical. Furthermore, a hypothetical Game Audio example was introduced […]
Mixing as part of the music composing process, Part 1
By Kole Hicks**In this article I refer to Mixing as if it includes all aspects of track production before mastering. Mixing is typically considered by the majority of people as the thing you do to “sweeten” the music after it has been written and recorded. Furthermore, the “Mixing” definition tends to only refer to what […]
Sound for Picture – Faking it
by Terry Wilson As a sound editor and designer, the most important thing is re-enforcing the visual landscape presented to the audience; providing an audible focus, and creating sonic cues to match the pictures. The vast majority of low and mid budget film & TV productions are set in the real world, or in everyday […]