THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE is a performative drawing by visual artist, Jeremy Hawkes. Diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s Disease, Hawkes suspends his medication, allowing the tremors to suffuse his work. With a starkly lyrical tone, THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE is a study of identity and pathology in the face of fear and acceptance. For…
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A cinematic ode, honouring the people of Australia’s Meerschaum Vale and its iconic community hall. Tracing the region’s vast history – from its traditional, Indigenous landowners through to modern-day fourth generation farming families – LAND TO VALE weaves together rich archival material with present-day footage to explore themes of love, loss and shared remembrance. In…
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Kayah Guenther is a young artist struggling to find his place in the world. Born with trisomy 21, he narrates his story through dance. A highly stylised and darkly evocative portrait, set to an original score, THE BATTLE explores themes of identity, power, passion and despair. in this film I provided location and studio recording.
“Hitch” by HW Collective (Sophie Hexter and Poppy Walker) is a beautiful film about a young boy. Recreating the entire soundscape of this haunting and beautifully created film was so fun. Running around, jumping on fences, finding bits of metal to scratch and bash together, digging holes in the back yard, etc. It was especially…
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“The Bentley Effect” by Brendan Shoebridge was released at the end of 2016 and has had an enormous impact on communities around Australia and the world. Composing the music for this long form documentary was both a massive challenge and a great privilege.
There are times that call for focus. This is not one one of them. This article explores the purpose and place of unfocusing in life and how that applies to composing music.
Here’s something I’ve learned. It’s not really kosher to go around telling people how to do things. I mean, who wants to go and do what someone else says?
Boost your music composing skills today by reading this. Print it out and pin it on your wall. It is challenging but it’s so rewarding.
You’ve probably heard the term”You can polish a turd as much as you like but at the end of the day it will still just be a polished turd”.
I’m sure your music isn’t in this category, but just to be sure that when you’re composing music, you don’t turn out just another polished turd, you may want to read this.
Why is Hare Krishna chanting so potent, penetrating and persistent? Learn how to compose with meaning by utilising these tricks used in Hare Krishna chants.
Create fear in your listeners by composing music using some very neat little tricks
It’s well understood that we can express meaning by combining emotions with information, (see my last article about more on this) but lets break it down a bit. We’re going to look at different emotions individually and explore how these emotions effect us, what meaning they bring to our lives and how we compose to…
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Let me talk a little while about my take on the reason we compose music. Why compose? Composing music is something that people have used throughout all of history to communicate. What are we communicating? It’s emotions. Its feelings. Its ideas without words. Words can be very clunky and cumbersome to get our ideas…
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Steve has a passion for his art in sound & music composition that is unmatched by anyone I’ve worked with in 25 years in this industry. He constantly goes above and beyond what is asked of him, and gives extra to the project at every step of the way.
The ‘SoundLife Audio FX Kit’ is an extremely useful tool in any film makers toolbox. It is a comprehensive and well crafted package that is designed to add professional atmos without blowing your budget.
For the first part of 2013, SoundLife Audio has been involved in the “Lock The Gate” Campaign, specifically the films “Fractured Country”, with Sound Editing and Music, and “Undermining Australia”, with Sound Editing.
In late 2012, SoundLife was very pleased to be a part of Akmal Saleh’s project, “Pharaoh vs the Egyptians”. A feature length documentary about the Arab Spring in Egypt and the overthrow of Hosni Mbarak by the egyptian people. SoundLife contributed Music, Voice Over Recording and a 5.1 Sound Design and Sound Edit. The Award…
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Also late in 2012, we were priveledged to be a part of ABC’s and Everycloud’s “The Gods Of Wheat Street”; a 6 x 1 hour television drama series that transports the audience into the world, hearts and humour of a modern Aboriginal family of local legends. After data wrangling for the series, SoundLife Audio went back…
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SoundLife Audio’s custom Neumann Surround array is about to be put into good use once again with a new Atmos project, to be revealed soon. Over the next few months, we’ll be working hard in the field and at the studio to bring you an extensive library of surprisingly useful and unique sounds in surround,…
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The third international screening of the documentary Pharoah vs The Egyptians was held at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres on Saturday during the 4th annual Indie Gems Film Festival. “I had no intention of being impartial,’’ Saleh said after the screening. ‘‘[Egyptian president Hosni] Mubarak had told his story for 30 years; it was my intention right from the…
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