When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.
If I sound like I'm enjoying myself, it's not artificial. It's real.
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
I even ate chips because I love the crunchy sound they make. And I didn't give much thought to what I was eating or what I was putting inside my body, except hummus, of course, which is one of my weaknesses.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy.
The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.
Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.
When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.
The first musical sound I ever heard was from a banjo. My father played, and I was an infant in a crib, and something just stayed with me from those early days.
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.
I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
I think I sound like Barry White.
The first time I experimented with sound design was on 'Fruitvale Station,' where I recorded the BART train and manipulated it.
Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.
There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.