Clash 32: Frame by Frame: Sound Design

New Clash out today (32) with interviews with Amon Tobin and Greg Hedgepath.

Hulk Smash

Finished feature on sound design for Clash 32 in record time, the Walter Murch interview got put back a little, though still hopeful, and secured a place on the Wall-E junket with the legendary Ben Burtt in November - the voice of R2D2 no less - all rather exciting. Through some sterling PR work, managed to set up and interview the super sharp shooting sound designer and ricochet master Greg Hedgepath at Danetracks, who turns out to be possibly one of the nicest people in show business, as well as the ever trusty Amon Tobin, who's always quick with a decent quote, this time about the joys of sampling wasps. Magazine comes out in three weeks. Two more pieces to go in this series.

Clash 31: Frame by Frame Biopics

Clash issue 31, which features a piece on music biopics (including an interview with Nick Moran, director of the forthcoming Joe Meek movie Telstar) is available now.

Big Screen 23 Out Now

Big Screen issue 23 out now. Includes reviews of: David Lynch Collection, In Bruges, Perseopolis

Run Silent, Run deep

Writing a short (300 word) bit on the score to Silent Running. It's due a DVD re-release in a couple of months, and I have played a bit of the score the last dozen or so of my DJ sets. It's an odd film, often overlooked, but very prescient in its anti-corporation bit, and the eco main theme. Bruce Dern is pretty terrible in it (but my piece doesn't mention that)

Walter Murch interview

The next piece I'm writing for my Frame by Frame series in Clash is on sound design. Somewhat amazingly, I've managed to get hold of the oscar winning, 5.1 inventing, legendary master of the art - Walter Murch. I reckon I've seen most of the films he's worked on, and they dominate any all time top ten I might hope to compile. This is up ther ewith the David Shire and Lalo Schifrin interviews I did a couple of months ago, in - can't-quite-get-past-the-things-these-people-have-achieved-in-film. Piece will be up on the DC site when it runs in print.

Little White Lies 19: David Lynch Review

Little White Lies 19 out now, with a lovely David Lynch review, a pleasure to wax lyrical on Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire.