Hi! This is a quick note to let you know about this interview conducted by Brian, for his excellent blog Stationary Travels. I have following his selections and reviews for a long while and I found out beautiful and diverse music and field recording artists through Brian’s website and so it was a pleasure to […]
Category: Sound Design
How to Actually Live as a Freelancer
Hi! This article published on A Sound Effect was written for audio freelancers, although most of it can be applied even if your field isn’t audio. As I saw myself shifting career, after loosing my job as a sound designer in Lisbon, balancing out financial needs with new necessities that require different routines and approaches, […]
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, along with months of dedication to the sound design, ended up awarding us with the European Cinematography Awards of Best Sound. The album is available […]
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 soundscape and talk a little about subjective experiences. Check it out here.
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 film The Wind Rises has been dissected on previous articles) and mention very interesting interviews with their sound designers. These director have gotten my attention […]
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 Patrick McGuire writes is spot on: Pons considers her work as a way to relate to and understand elements of the world around her. After some years […]
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 months on history and social related TV programs with a regular interview / stock footage format (which unfortunately felt kind of flat). One is an […]
The Wind Rises – Sound Design Analysis III – challenging and supporting the notions of vococentrism
For the purpose of this review, principles and notions from Chion are going to be referenced and hopefully challenged at times. Chion’s notion of the central role of voice in cinema as a means of the conveyance of psychological and emotional information that is expressed trough its spacial, material and sensory inputs – vococentrism. In his book […]
The Wind Rises sound design analysis II – elements of nature / the earthquake
The earthquake In September 1923, Tokyo became a hell on earth. In less than three days, a magnitude approximate 7.9 earthquake and subsequent conflagrations reduced nearly half of Japan’s capital to a blackened, rubble-filled, corpse-strewn wasteland of desolation. The human tragedy of over 120,000 killed and 2 million left homeless was matched in severity by […]
How I came to record bits of the Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest domain stretches from the northeastern to the southern regions of Brazil and northern Argentina and southeastern Paraguay. In the northeastern part of Brazil it occupies a thin coastal strip not exceeding 40 miles in width, while in the south it extends from the coast to as far as 200 miles inland. It harbors around 2,200 species […]
