Printing my master's thesis now

Six fucking years!

God, I've hated every single one of them.

I hope they let me pass.

Congratulations man!

What did you write your thesis on?

I can't wait until I have my masters degree...

My thesis is about the sound of dreams in movies... so hopefully in a month or so I should receive my papers saying that I'm not officially an Audio Designer.

Not officially one? Or now* officially one?

Can you post it here? Sounds like an interesting read

  On 6/6/2013 at 12:41 AM, Zeffolia said:

Not officially one? Or now* officially one?

Sorry, I'm tired as fuck... I meant "now" :)

  On 6/6/2013 at 12:45 AM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

Can you post it here? Sounds like an interesting read

I don't think it would be of much use if you don't read Afrikaans :)

I can read dutch :P

  On 6/6/2013 at 12:38 AM, Squee said:

My thesis is about the sound of dreams in movies... so hopefully in a month or so I should receive my papers saying that I'm not officially an Audio Designer.

The sound of dreams in movies...?

I'm intrigued. I know you're probably sick as hell of the subject (considering you've probably been studying this/getting pertinent information together on it for quite some time) but can you elaborate a little?

Do you mean the way dream states are portrayed musically/or otherwise in terms of sounds in movies?

Congrats Squee! Finishing a master's thesis takes a lot of effort, and there's nothing like the feeling of pride you get when you look at your finished and bound copy, all those footnotes/endnotes and appendices that you painstakingly spent weekends fixing up.

Well done, seriously. Have a drink or something!

  On 6/6/2013 at 1:34 AM, SR4 said:

 

 

 

Well done, seriously. Have a drink or something!

seconded! Champagne. =)

Congrats man. A thesis is a bastard of a bastard

How cruel would it be if you woke up tomorrow and all 6 years of hard work had been a dream, like the Bob Newhart Show or something.

Have you been researching the sound of dreams in other movies, or inventing ways to aurally represent dreams yourself? Or both?

Squee, what were the sorta 5 most common production tricks you found were used for dream music?

I'm curious how frequently stereo tremolo and other panning tricks got used...

Congrats man! I know that feeling, and it's a damn good feeling.

  On 6/6/2013 at 2:34 AM, LimpyLoo said:

How cruel would it be if you woke up tomorrow and all 6 years of hard work had been a dream, like the Bob Newhart Show or something.

Best ending to a sitcom evar

All I remember from films I've seen is voices with a lot of delay/reverb.

  On 6/6/2013 at 2:45 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

Best ending to a sitcom evar

all the best to you

Good luck! I'd like to read an english translation but i know that would be way too much to ask

  On 6/6/2013 at 3:05 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Good luck! I'd like to read an english translation but i know that would be way too much to ask

lol how cruel!

congratulations!

congratz dude

Good luck!

But you hated all those 6 years? WTF!? What are you going to do with your degree? Practice accounting, or something? Or will you rise to ultimate fame by setting up THE "nice tits" page?

Congrats, and cheers!

I think the impressionist vocabulary has been adopted by film score writers to a great degree, and that particularly the whole tone scale played on a harp is often used for dream sequences?

prints thread

  On 6/6/2013 at 1:08 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 6/6/2013 at 12:38 AM, Squee said:

My thesis is about the sound of dreams in movies... so hopefully in a month or so I should receive my papers saying that I'm not officially an Audio Designer.

 

Do you mean the way dream states are portrayed musically

 

Yup, more or less :) It's all about the soundscapes, music, and so on.

  On 6/6/2013 at 2:45 AM, th555 said:

All I remember from films I've seen is voices with a lot of delay/reverb.

You just summed up a big part of my paper :)

  On 6/6/2013 at 2:36 AM, th555 said:

Have you been researching the sound of dreams in other movies, or inventing ways to aurally represent dreams yourself? Or both?

I looked at Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway and had a look at how the dream sequences were portrayed auditorily. I also had a quick look at a soundtrack that I did for an art video. And then finally I made my own generative system that was based on the things I had realised throughout my thesis. Such as, dreams, according to Freud, are random memories or traumas that have made a big impact on us. So since dreams most often are just random memories I thought making a generative music system would work great as a "Dream Music System". Instead of importing sound files you import "memories" and then it creates randomly generated ambient pieces out of that.

And thanks guys! :) Appreciate the kind words!