Favorite Quotes From The Industry

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Favorite Quotes From The Industry

Post by MikeQuell » August 3rd, 2013, 11:12 pm

I'm looking to replace the social buttons at the bottom right side of the page with inspiring and intriguing quotes directed at sound and our industry.

With that, what are some of your favorites quotes you have heard or come across?

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Re: Favorite Quotes From The Industry

Post by joe_griffin » August 8th, 2013, 4:18 pm

Two of my favorites:

"Lots of people are nostalgic for analog. I suspect they're people who never had to work with it." – Brian Eno

This one was said in response to changes in the visual effects industry but it applies across the board:

"Every time there is a new technology, there is a paranoid faction of less-than-brilliant artists who feel that that's the end of their career; who don't understand that art never dies; that technology will go on and serve art, but art never dies." – Stan Winston

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Post by MikeQuell » August 10th, 2013, 11:56 am

Here's a pretty popular one:
The visual material knocks on the front door, and when somebody knocks on the front door, you sort of adjust your clothing, go to the door, take a deep breath, say, "Who's there?" and open the door. Whatever meeting occurs will have an element of formality to it, because it's somebody who came to the front door.

Sound tends to come in the back door, or sometimes even sneak in through the windows or through the floorboards. Remember, the ears point out the side of your head and take in a 360-degree spherical field. And while you're busy answering the front door, sound is sneaking in the back door. It's in the house as much as anyone who came in through the front door, but you're not as aware of it, and so its presence is more of a conditional presence--it tends to condition the things you are consciously aware of.

- Walter Murch
Source: http://www.filmsound.org/murch/waltermurch.htm

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Post by MikeQuell » August 10th, 2013, 11:59 am

The dude is full of great knowledge. From the same article I also really like this one because it relates to the mixing and design process. Far too often in game audio, sounds don't come from the space. They are just sounds giving feedback to the player. They don't live in the world.
I am recording space with a sound in it, rather than sound in a space.

- Walter Much
Source: http://www.filmsound.org/murch/waltermurch.htm

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Re: Favorite Quotes From The Industry

Post by MikeQuell » November 25th, 2013, 7:54 pm

Got the text box in the bottom right hand side of the page to randomly select a quote upon page load. Send in some of your favorite quotes and I'll add them to the queue! Yay, web development!

-Mike

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