Band / Music / Online / Tape / Video / Collaborations.

  Band: Atomic. EP: I buy Clothes in Charity Shops. Album: Trouble in the Squirthouse. Click here to view compilation. Year: 1999 / 2000. Collaboration  College Band: Smut Genre: Punk. Year: 2001. Collaboration  College Band: Stig of Le Dump. Genre: Heavy Rock / Metal. Year […]

AOS Presents: The Album Leaf / Jimmy LaValle.

Aos. Hello Jimmy LaValle aka ‘The Album Leaf’ and a very warm Welcome to ‘Architect of Sound’.  Firstly i would you to tell us a brief introduction about yourself?   Jimmy LaValle: I’m a musician, producer, composer mostly known for my solo music released as ‘the Album […]

AOS Presents: Sean Yseult – Artist, Designer, Musician, Photographer and former bass player of the multi-platinum rock band White Zombie.

Aos. Hello Sean Yseult and Welcome to ‘Architect of Sound’.  Firstly i would you to tell us a brief introduction about yourself?   Sean Yseult: White Zombie Bassist, photographer and designer. I was raised in North Carolina by two bohemian English Professors who immersed my sister and […]

Field Recordings & Sound Design available to buy online at audio global community www.audiojungle.net

  Audiojungle is an online global community for Composers, Musicians and Sound Designers. Have a listen below to the uploaded audio clips: Looking for Steam Locomotive Sounds? Purchase a set of authentic field recordings of “Merlin” through the online global community network known as audiojungle designed especially for composers, […]

Introducing 10 Patches from Max / Msp (Visual programming language for music and multi-media)

Max MSP is a visual programming language for Music and multi-media developed by San Francisco company Cycling ’74.  It has been used by Composers, Performers, Software Designers, Researchers, Sound Designers and Artists to create recordings, performances and Installations. Max is named after the late Max Matthews (Pioneer of […]

AOS Presents: The Story of the Saxophone plus 40+ Saxophone Compositions!

Belgium is a country located in the centre of Europe and is famous for many tourism delights such as waffles covered in strawberries and cream, Belgian beer (Leffe, Zinne Bir, Trappist beer Chimay, Duval), Belgian chocolate, mussels and fries (The National Dish), Frites in a cone […]

Explore a vast array of Instruments from music cultures from around the world in the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Brussels, Belgium.

The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) is located in central Brussels, Belgium.  It is known for it’s wide selection of musical instruments from all over the World. The MIM collection began in 1877. Formerly it was housed in a very small building, where it was only possible […]

A Collection of Photographs on Architecture.

Over the years I have been fortunate enough to photograph monuments with various architectural styles ranging from Scottish baronial, Renaissance, Roman, Concrete to Modern in different towns and cities. Slowly but surely I have built up a small collection of photographs displaying architectural works (dating back hundreds of years) […]

AOS Presents: Frank Turner!

Aos. Hello Frank Turner, Welcome to ‘Architect of Sound‘.  Firstly, I would like you to give us a brief introduction about yourself and what it is you do? FT: I am a singer-songwriter, a touring musician, an entertainer. I grew up in Winchester and now live in […]

The Art of Noises: A Futurist Manifesto by Luigi Russolo and it’s influence on the 21st Century.

Luigi Russolo was a prominent painter in the Italian Futurist movement yet he is best known for ‘The Art of Noises‘ which is considered one of the most important and influential texts of musical aesthetics in the 20th Century. The text was written as a […]

Two Years On…

Today marks the two year anniversary since I started this online project.  I have to be honest and say I had always questioned myself If i had enough depth, material, ideas, imagination and variation to carry and sustain a blog project that I titled ‘Architect […]

The Art of Foley – Creating a Ripping Horror Gushing Creature Feasting Zombie Style Sound Effect.

Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to Video, Film and other Media post-productions to enhance audio quality.  These sounds could be everyday sounds such as footsteps, wind blowing, clapping or doors slamming. What is a Sound Effect? Sound Effect, Noun. […]