most recent 30 from http://socialsounddesign.com 2013-05-22T18:28:58Z http://socialsounddesign.com/feeds/question/7477 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/7477/sound-design-birthday-ideas Utopia 2011-04-24T05:30:53Z 2011-04-26T23:42:07Z

<p>Hello everyone,</p> <p>An executive of the studio I work at has a birthday coming up and my coworkers and I want to give something with a sound twist to it.</p> <p>I had the thought of giving 5 great examples of movies with fantastic sound design - but ones most likely never seen before. This rules out the box office hits within the past 10 years or so.</p> <p>So, if you don't mind, would you care to share 5 obscure movies (not graphic, inappropriate or offensive) which have awesome, awesome, fantastic, wonderful examples of great sound design?</p> <p>Uncle Boonmee and Boy comes to mind.</p> <p>Please, Tim, I'm sure you have a bunch of these off the top of your head. (also, how can I buy a copy of Boy? I'm searching for it now with no luck).</p> <p>Thank you so much in advance!</p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/7477/sound-design-birthday-ideas/7478#7478 Joe Griffin 2011-04-24T06:34:57Z 2011-04-24T06:34:57Z

<p>"The Conversation" and "THX 1138" spring to mind.</p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/7477/sound-design-birthday-ideas/7479#7479 tim prebble 2011-04-24T07:43:52Z 2011-04-24T07:43:52Z

<p>A few suggestions:</p> <p>Touch the Sound <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/</a> (great documentary about deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie)</p> <p>3-Iron <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423866/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423866/</a> (a great movie with only six lines of dialogue)</p> <p>Not sure if its out on DVD but: The Sound of Noise <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278449/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278449/</a></p> <p>Is he at all musical? I'd be pretty impressed with one of those punch-your-own-tune music boxes: <a href="http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Music_and_Audio_Toys.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Music_and_Audio_Toys.html</a></p> <p>Another option, I gave someone their own domain name as a birthday present...</p> <p>Will add any others as I think of them....</p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/7477/sound-design-birthday-ideas/7487#7487 sepulchra 2011-04-24T19:03:35Z 2011-04-24T19:03:35Z

<p>Check out "into great Silence" -- lots of silence! <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478160/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478160/</a></p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/7477/sound-design-birthday-ideas/7489#7489 Tak 2011-04-25T00:30:27Z 2011-04-25T00:30:27Z

<p>Kwaidan (1964) <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058279/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058279/</a></p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/7477/sound-design-birthday-ideas/7548#7548 David Rovin 2011-04-26T23:42:07Z 2011-04-26T23:42:07Z

<p>The Hunger has some interesting stuff Most Robert Altman films have good sound. MASH has a really interesting approach to dialog and sound - people talking over each other, very naturalistic performances.</p> <p>ALso, a really interesting doc about the guy who invented the Theremin (called "Theremin"). Not really about sound design, but in the ear ballpark.</p>