Rydstrom on sound
If you don’t know who Gary Rydstrom is, then you don’t know an awful lot about film sound. You can read a bit about him and his work on Mix, too. I ran across this quote from him recently and thought it should be shared.
Sound effects editing and sound design to me is a lot like knitting. And sometimes I think that it’s like quilting. Or sometimes I even think that it’s like arranging knick knacks in a cabinet and you just want the knick knacks to look right, where you place them, which one looks good. All of these analogies I consider bad and not very manly, so I decided sound effects editing is actually more like flying a fighter jet. But not really. It’s more like quilting.
Isn’t that an interesting way to look at sound? Thanks Mr. Rydstrom!
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Originally posted 2010-10-09 22:59:10.
