Sound Of Anime Ishida Hidenori LP Vinyl Record

Found these photographs of a sound effects LP called "Sound Of Anime Ishida Hidenori" on ebay.  Looks like an ARP 2600.  Ishida Hidenori is a giant in anime Sound Design, having founded Ishida Sound in 1971, which later became Fizz Sound Creation.  Wikipedia entry. 

 

You can see a photo of a bunch of their sound design audio tape reels on their current website:
http://www.fizz-sound.co.jp/.  The first ones have Dragon Ball written on the them!

Walter Murch and The Search for Order in Sound & Picture

In the April 1998 issue of Mix Magazine, an article on the Godfather of Sound Design Walter Murch entitled "The Search for Order In Sound & Picture" is a great summary on his unique and over-arching views of aural theory and craft in movies.  Murch's approach has proven influential and thought-provoking to an entire industry, and there are just too many insights to post.  Instead, here's a link the article itself, a must read for everyone in Sound Design and Filmmaking.

http://www.filmsound.org/murch/waltermurch.htm

Director Jim Sheridan On Simple Shots

In the February 2004 issue of Millimeter Magazine, Director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot), discusses simple, clean shots in his movies:

I think it's better to have a lack of visual information than to have too much.  When you have a lack of information the audience has to become interactive with it.  They have to figure out what they're looking at.  I think a lot of films are overcrowded with information.  There's too much going on: too much light, too much acting, too much story.

...The more you put in the way that is visible, the less chance you have of getting true emotions.

Some movies spend an awful lot of time on carefully planned shots where everybody hits their marks, and it looks great.  But working that way can also take the soul out of a show.

If the audience is watching the characters and focused on the story, they're more likely to get the emotion of the moment.  The less you put in the way of that, the better.