Jan 28 2025 68 mins 1
ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 183.
Barney Oram gets into different patterns of sound design, in all sorts of different roles and at all sorts of different scales—plus his love of film in general and Billy Wilder in particular, the durable ethos that “if it sounds good, it is good,” and his extensive experience recording loud sounds that go bang.
You can learn more about Barney’s work on his website.
You can also follow Barney on LinkedIn.
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• Drew hadn’t played much of Enotria at the time of the interview—but now that he has, he can recommend it enthusiastically to fellow genre sickos. A sunny soulslike indeed, with lots of culturally-specific imagery and some clever twists on progression and buildcrafting.
• Billy Wilder really is an all-timer, both as a writer and as a director, as this recent Every Frame a Painting beautifully explains.
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is on YouTube in its entirety, at least some places.
• The talk that Barney did for Game Audio Boston doesn’t seem to be online, but we’ll add a link if it does show up in the future.
• That said, here’s Barney talking about recording loud sounds that go bang. And here too.
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“All The People Say (Season 5)” by Carpe Demon.
“Rev Up Your Arithmetech!” (the menu music) from the Add Astra OST by Emerson Boatwright and Drew Messinger-Michaels.
Some gameplay audio from Enotria: The Last Song, which has music and audio design by Aaram Shahbazians and additional audio by Barney Oram.
As Drew says in the intro, Add Astra is on Steam, Chemistry Set is available directly from COINCIDENCE, and The Tower and the Circle is available through Alexander.
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