This past weekend I took a quick trip to Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, CA for some R&R. We stayed in a condo right on the golf course, but as I’m no golfer, I mostly enjoyed the serenity the course offers. Funny enough, I actually didn’t see a single golfer over the weekend. So I took advantage of the empty course by pulling out my field recording gear and searching out subjects to record. Now for a successful field recording excursion, best results are achieved with proper location scouting and planning… but as this was a low-stress weekend I lowered my expectations and went along with whatever I could find. Below you’ll find some of my field recordings from the weekend, along with two soundscapes I designed. Enjoy!
Over at our other company, Boom Box Library, we recently released “Magic Chimes,” a library of mark tree and bell tree recordings for sound design and music applications. The library has been a big success thus far, clearly filling a need in the sound library community. Creating it from scratch was very fun, so I thought it would be interesting to share the process with you.
We’ve all heard the old adage: be the change you want to see in the world. Jeff and I take this responsibility extremely seriously. We may only be one small studio in Burbank, CA, but we are doing our best to aid in the visibility of women as smart, capable, and creative audio professionals. We sleep well at night knowing that we are giving opportunities to deserving individuals and we’re doing it in an environment of respect and appreciation.
So you can see that taking part of WAMCon was a natural extension of our company ethos. We could not be more proud that they asked us to be part of it.
