Changing Soundscapes Under Lockdown: articles compilation
Welcome to your sensory revolution, thanks to the pandemic I found this article to be a great start! The main stand point is that of the sensory world and how […]
Author Archives: melissa pons
“Croaks, squelches, waterfalls”: The Guardian features Swedish Forest Textures
A very nice article by Harley Brown talking about environmentalism, ecology, the pandemic and the healing factors of nature sounds. It was lovely to talk to Harley and I’m happy […]
A method for organizing field recordings – part 2
Thank you everyone who has read and commented on part 1 and welcome to the second part of this article in which I describe my workflow after I had listened […]
A Method for Organizing Field Recordings – part 1
Before we get to how I do this, I want to start off by making clear that this is my own method that finally worked for me after many trials […]
Swedish Forest Textures – new field recording album
Today I am very happy to share with everyone some beautiful soundscapes from the Swedish Forest. These recordings were originally done in April of 2018 for the film Ghabe which, […]
Freelancing with Sanity – a quick guide to be an awesome respectable badass
For the past 5 years I have been freelancing as a sound mixer and now exclusively as a sound editor & designer. If you had at least one client as […]
Thinking Natural Soundscapes in Films
Being a natural environment enthusiast, a field recordist and a sound designer it has been great to research for this article. There I mention Chris Watson approach to build a […]
3 Film Directors That Place Importance on Sound
What follows is an article I wrote for the SFX website SoundSnap. I discuss some examples of films of Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant and Hayao Miyazaki (whose sound design’s […]
Working Across Aesthetic Boundaries
Recently my name was short listed amongst incredible field recordings on SoundFly, an audio educational website with great content that is definitely worth following (I’m still stunned by this!!) What […]
Using Sound Design to reveal the under layers
Two films I am involved in inspired me mostly to write this article. I have been giving this matter a lot of thought, which bursted particularly while working for 8 […]
