YAY!! Its HISSandaROAR 16th Birthday!! Every #sounddesign library is 50% off until Sept 1st, I have a bunch of new libraries to release and there will be cake! Thanks to everyone who has supported us – there will be some…

With @reversalcine    

Released a HISSandaROAR library of recordings I made with my Dad driving his 1927 Chev Roadster back in 2022. Such a cute little car, here it is in action: VEH006 1927 Chev Roadster    

    ▶ Porter Ricks – Bay Rouge     ▶ Pole – Raum 1 Variation (Kit Clayton)     ▶ Moritz von Oswald – Ole (Remix)        

    ▶ Emma Louise & Flume – Monsoon     ▶ Buju Banton – Untold Stories     ▶ Prince Fari ft Culture – Message From The King     ▶ Prince Far I ‎- Suru-Lere Dub    

    ▶ Neuromancer — Official Teaser – Streaming on Apple TV on January 22, 2027!?     ▶ lol at leg hair harassment or a term coined online “sunehara”     ▶ WG DAW Convertor Move sessions between Pro…

I’ve seen more than a few people say they get advice on their music from an LLM, after uploading a song or piece of music. Have a read of this experiment and perhaps try it yourself to verify how you…

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    ▶ Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Conversation 3     Cicada Burnt by leo ▶ leo – Cicada Burnt     ▶ A Guy Called Gerald (Live in Session) @TheLotRadio 07-17-2026        

The main library in Wellington was closed for ages due to needing earthquake strengthening… It reopened to the public earlier this year, on 14 March 2026, but its taken me until now to visit it… I love libraries, they would…

I occasionally see misguided comments like this one on Bluesky the other day: “Folks have a lot of pet peeves with movies these days, but my biggest one is probably that an absurd number of score composers are afraid of…

    ▶ hand tracking module     ▶ Zimoun: 9 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, 10 metal bowls ø 67 cm, 2026     ▶ great to see Australian Government taking a stand on AI and publicly stating they will…

      Shooting bulb exposures of fibre optic light, as digital previz before shooting film…              

    ▶ Lee “Scratch” Perry – Cricket on the Moon     ▶ Beenie Man – Crazy Baldhead (feat. Luciano)     ▶ King Tubby · Scientist – Scientist’s Japanese Dub     ▶ Beat Pharmacy – Ghostship (Deadbeat…

wow!! As luck would have it @reversalcine noticed an 80mm lens for my Kodak Retina IIIc for sale on Trademe! Got it for $75 and picked it up from a charity store two suburbs away lol… I had to RTFM…

I imagine this generic email was sent to every sound effects company in existence. PSA: If you release your sounds via a third party I strongly advise you to check your licensing terms with them, to verify your work does…

              What an amazing little 35mm film camera, bought for NZ$300 in mint condition Schneider 50mm F2.0 lens, with options for a 35mm and 80mm lens… Considerably heavier construction/more metal than the little Contax…

Picked up a sound prop today… realised later why every time I stopped at the lights, people laughed…   it looks like a DIY funeral?    

  We’ve all seen the tacky AI slop images on social media, and noticed how google search has turned to crap but in the last few weeks I’ve started getting feeble attempts at AI gen comments at this very blog!?…

    Wainui South Coast on a sunny Sunday afternoon is therapeutic…            

    ▶ Moses Boyd – Say Yeah     ▶ Maryanne Amacher – Tower     Without References/Cindy Van Acker by goat (jp) ▶ goat (jp) – Without References/Cindy Van Acker     ▶ Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force…

    ▶ song loan foot casta from vietnam via KoizumiGakki     ▶ lol at the writers tiny dck rule… – an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits.     ▶ Hackers made death threats against…

And thats a wrap! After many, many months of field recording, sound editing & design work, and collaborating with lovely humans (and no fckng AI!) with the last month spent at awesome Park Road Post for the mix, the film…

Back in the day, when I was working on 2-3 films a year, at the end of every mix I made a habit/ritual of taking a nice bottle of tequila along to celebrate. Apart from having spent many months working…

    ▶ SIGN/e : Graphic notation for Ableton LIVE Download the free Max for LIVE device at Github     ▶ Mark Rothko’s Color Fields Mirror the Elements in a ‘Weather-to-Painting Experiment’     ▶ AI slop music SUMO…

    PHRAGMANTS by TONAL TUCK ▶ Tonal Tuck – Phragments     ▶ Vakat – Percussion Work [NWHITE022]     Dub Works – Season 3 by SoulParlor ▶ SoulParlor – Dub Works – Season 3        

    ▶ cute EMF sensor: the EMF Explorer Badge     ▶ whoah the headline: I make good money. Why do I still feel like this? is like a sucker punch for the byline: “The middle class was a…