Sound
Designer / Composer Alan Howarth created special sound designs
for many feature films including all the original group
of Star Trek feature films, The Hunt for Red October, The
Little Mermaid, Poltergeist, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stargate,
and Back to the Future 2 & 3. As a film composer he
scored music with John Carpenter on Escape from New York,
Big Trouble in Little China, Christine, and Halloween 2
& 3. He continued solo to score Halloween 4, 5 &
6 as well as numerous genre films. In this first installment,
he presents some of his personal favorites as well as field
recordings from travels around the world.
"When arrangements were made to
create this set of sound effects for The Hollywood Edge,
I saw it as an opportunity to present sounds that were from
my own "classic" collection as well as effects
I have recorded that have special qualities. The sounds
contained in this series will fall into two classes, original
recordings and sound effects that were modified in a studio
environment. My principle sound design tool is a Synclavier
9600. I have used this instrument since 1986 and have my
main design elements in this format. As I went through my
library, my choices were made with the thought that I wanted
to provide a set of effects that could be used to build
feature quality sound tracks with excellent detail and variety,
rather than just a few samples."
"On the first disk, the focus
was on aircraft, aerospace sounds, metallic devices and
trains. Disk two contains elements for building earthquakes,
fires, ice, and wind tracks. Disk three is a series of recordings
from automobile racing as well as crowd effects from Israel.
On disk four, I have included elements to address the horror
and mid evil genre, with the addition of a unique collection
of horse effects. The final disk, number 5, has field recordings
of naturefrom Israel and a excellent variety of water and
underwater sounds."
"I feel the goals I set out to
accomplish have been met, and I look forward to more installments
to the Hollywood Edge Signature Series."
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Set Contains: |
5 CDs |
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Track Count : |
388 |