Comments on: Questioning a Design Aesthetic, 2000 – 2005

By: Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:48:58 +0000

Whoo, boy, did I enjoy reading this! You even included Lexicon! (BTW, the link to it is broken; you forgot your http://

I am definitely looking forward to Part 2, and whatever else you post about this topic. It’s mad interesting.

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[...] lost – of aesthetic considerations of sound design that several bloggers have been talking about here and elsewhere over the past few weeks – from collaboration, using the text as a starting point, to [...]

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Design aesthetics « Toxic Blog’s Bag — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:26:01 +0000

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By: joe griffin

joe griffin — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:22:07 +0000

Nick, this is exactly the kind of thing I think we need. I’m continually frustrated by a lack of discussion about process and aesthetic in sound design. As I said in a recent post, it’s groovy to read about speakers and $75k mixing desks, but especially at the storefront level some discussion of creative problem-solving is much more valuable. You say, “One of the underlying reasons I’ve shied away from writing about sound on this blog is that there is so little sound design in theater theory out there.” And I reply: we need to create some. Every month, “Mix” magazine has at least one article with a film sound designer about how they approached the creative aspect of a design…but “Stage Directions” just talks about wireless mic frequencies and speakers (not that those things are unimportant, certainly).

Looking forward to Part 2.