[HN Gopher] The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects
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       The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects
        
       Author : tintinnabula
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2022-07-04 23:45 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | at_a_remove wrote:
       | Several years ago, musician Thomas Dolby attempted a documentary
       | about a lighthouse from his childhood which turned out to be
       | influential in his work. However, he hadn't the expertise and
       | ended up losing most of the audio that was outside because he
       | didn't know how to mike it properly (which would be especially
       | tough given the weather there).
       | 
       | So what did he do? He toured a special evening performance (The
       | Invisible Lighthouse) with the video only in the background, him
       | narrating, and then a helper, Blake Leyh (sound design for _The
       | Abyss_ and such) across the stage, _providing live foley effects_
       | where appropriate, with just a handful of props, instruments, and
       | the like.
       | 
       | Really fascinating to see in person.
        
       | peterlk wrote:
       | I absolutely love foley in music. I haven't updated it in a
       | while, but I have a playlist of music that contains foley that I
       | like:
       | https://open.spotify.com/playlist/41uMIYCFV2XXaFtPWSNo9V?si=...
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       | I find that adding foley to music makes it easier to engage in
       | active listening of the song. For anyone who has ever produced or
       | thought of producing music, adding foley to tracks is _really_
       | fun. Replace a snare hit with a capacitor pop or a noise build
       | with an airplane taking off. It really adds depth to whatever
       | you're making. It often forces me to step up my production game
       | too because natural sounds come with all kinds of undesirable
       | frequencies and spiky amplitudes that need to be smoothed out in
       | order to cohesively fit into a track.
        
         | Minor49er wrote:
         | You might enjoy albums like Amon Tobin's ISAM, Einsturzende
         | Neubauten's Kollaps, Nurse With Wound's Sugar Fish Drink, or
         | Chu Ishikawa / Der Eisenrost's soundtrack for Tokyo Fist
        
       | novosel wrote:
       | On a (slightly) tangent note, check out a Peter Strickland film
       | --- Berberian Sound Studio. Foley artist caught in a horror
       | movie/reality.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberian_Sound_Studio
        
       | WalterBright wrote:
       | I enjoyed the movie Ronin, then made the mistake of watching the
       | "making of". They showed how they added sound effects in the car
       | chase, like shaking gravel in a coffee can, etc.
       | 
       | Then when I watch the movie, and hear the sound effects, in my
       | mind I see the foley artist shaking the coffee can.
       | 
       | It ruined the movie for me :-)
       | 
       | P.S. I watched "Night Sky" yesterday. In one scene, the truck
       | screeches to a halt on a _dirt_ road. Sigh.
        
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         | Gordonjcp wrote:
         | In the car chase they dubbed the Citroen XM's lovely 90deg V6
         | growl with a rather boring Chevy smallblock V8 sound effect.
        
         | m463 wrote:
         | In the movie airplane the jet makes the sound of a propeller
         | plane. :)
        
       | Stratoscope wrote:
       | One of the many wonderful Jam Handy videos in the Prelinger
       | Archive is Back of the Mike, showing a combination of Foley and
       | voice acting techniques in an old time radio broadcast:
       | 
       | https://archive.org/details/Backofth1938
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjemv7RypkA
       | 
       | (Same film on both; the one on YouTube seems to be a slightly
       | higher quality transfer.)
        
       | unwind wrote:
       | Very interesting, would love a video documentary of their
       | processes, when you can cut to the final sound in the movie.
       | 
       | Also, had to look it up since I realized I didn't know:
       | 
       |  _In filmmaking, Foley[1] is the reproduction of everyday sound
       | effects that are added to films, videos, and other media in post-
       | production to enhance audio quality.[2] These reproduced sounds,
       | named after sound-effects artist Jack Foley, can be anything from
       | the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and
       | breaking glass._
       | 
       | From Wikipedia [1] of course.
       | 
       | [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)
        
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