The next two inspirational sound artists I am looking at are Janet Cardiff and Ben Burtt.
Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff is a Canadian sound artist who recorded her first sound walk in 1991 and this was titled 'Forest Walk'. This was her just simply walking through a forest and directing the listener; it was mixed on a 4 track cassette desk. Cardiff started to introduce moving image to her sound pieces and this started with her piece 'The Whispering Room' which featured a 30 second long image of a girl tap dancing whilst the listeners walked around the room in a gallery from left to right. As they did this they heard different sounds and dialogue coming from different speakers.
Another famous piece is titled 'Alter Bahnhof' and this was created in 2001 and used architectural and interactive techniques to tell the narrative. In the sound recording, the viewer is asked to stand in the train station and hold their phone out in front with the moving image on, and Cardiff directs you through. The used of ASMR i this makes it a personal experience as it is if she is speaking into your ear.
Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt is a foley artist, voice actor and sound designer who is famous for many science-fiction films like ET, Star Wars, Wall-e, and Star Trek. He is known for combining natural sound effects in these futuristic films, instead of using plain electronic sounding effects that have been used in the past.
Some famous sounds that he has created include the sounds of Chewbacca in Star Wars and he created this by going to a forest and recording sounds of bears, then slowing these down whilst editing. He also created the original lightsaber sound in Star Wars: A New Hope. The main buzzing tone was created by using an old film projector, along with a broken TV. Burtt found the sound of this TV set by accident as it picked up on the microphone.
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