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The UMA Audio Playback Session got iced! oooOK, let's just enjoy the Holiday on Ice, and push the Playback back. AUD 319, Advanced Audio meets on Jan 15th/Wed at 6PM. Let's make that the Playback session, write comments & reminisce. And have refreshments. About 10 of you are in the class anyway. The others have been or should consider being.
Those enrolled: I'll expect thorough critiques. That will be your first assignment.

Enjoy! ... chip, chip, chip!

Bill: (207) 621-3267

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Check out the featurette preview of the coming feature film Phantom in which Jeff Rona talks about using different elements around the submarine to help compose the score to the movie:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/phantom/

Phantom - Movie Trailers - iTunes Ed Harris plays the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has secretly been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Forced to leave his wife and daughter, he is rushed into a classified mission, where he is haunted by his past and challenged by a rogue KGB group (l...

OPEN INVITATION to UMA grads who teach.... we will provide an educational session at UMA Audio for your students, including Show & Tell Lite or Show & Tell Heavy or just a recording of your students. This is a free community service. Many Middle & High schools have been here for an afternoon of audio & music experience. Please contact Bill at [email protected] for more details.

FYI - New Documentary on Sound City recording studios. Check out the trailer.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HQoOfiLz1G4 #!

Sound City Official Trailer Roswell Films Presents: Sound City. A Film by Dave Grohl. Coming February 2013. Preorder available now at http://soundcitymovie.com

SoundStories - For those of you who are interested in sound designing for film/video here is an article on creating the sounds for Steven Spielberg's War Horse film.
http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/war-horse-sound-tricks-otters-stand-in-for-horses-and-other-trade-secrets/?scp=3&sq=war%20horse&st=cse

'War Horse' Sound Tricks: Ice Skates for Bullets and Other Trade Secrets The "War Horse" sound crew used household items like vacuum cleaners and water bottles to recreate the sounds of battle, and otters and walruses for the horses.