Annecy Double Win!

Well, this is pretty cool news: The Winner of the Annecy Interntional Film Festival Cristal for best feature is none other than "Sita Sings the Blues"! And "Special Distiction" (in other words "2nd Place") goes to "Idiots and Angels"! Read Here.

Check out this cool article in Variety!

And the man who created one of my favorite cartoon shows was one of the judges.

Go Nina and Bill! And for those of you new to this site, I sound designed both films, so go me!

Hose Sound Design

"Hose" is a stop motion animated short by Kevin Watkins. It is easily one of the cooler projects I've worked on and is technically amazing. It's a sound designer's dream when a project comes along that is visually impressive and contains some great storytelling and needs all sorts of unique sounds.
The project required recording and creating a lot of new sounds. I made numerous trips outdoors with...well...garden hoses, and threw them around all over the place to capture the sounds of the hose. I got some strange looks and numerous questions from people who passed by.
















Living right next to Prospect Park in Brooklyn proved very helpful. Even in the middle of a big city, one can get a bit of quiet - enough to record outdoor Foley.
Besides recording a hose moving over various surfaces, I also recorded a lot of the other elements the hose comes in contact with - chain link fences, drain spouts, ladders, buckets, tools, etc... Also, the actual "squeak" of the hose was important to create and involved a lot of experimentation to come up with the right elements.
A stereo mix is finished for now. Look for a 5.1 mix soon. Hose has started hitting the festival circuit.