"Soundscape: The School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001" is, similarly to "Film Sound", a collection of reflections and experiences of sound practitioners and academics. There are few really interesting chapters in the book that gave some well needed inspiration boost for my Dissertation Project.
In the chapter entitled "Touch of Silence" Walter Murch, the pioneer sound designer, talks in detail about creation of sound design for a cult film "Apocalypse Now". The 5.1 surround standard was just been invented and the film helped shape and popularise it greatly. Murch takes about a few interesting concepts, like 'worldizing'. This is a concept that Murch helped to develop during his career. The idea behind is to take the sound out of the studio and into the field, and rerecord it capturing the reverberant sound. This technique has been used to great advantage in "Apocalypse Now", for example by recording Wagner's 'Ride of Valyries' through megaphones attach to military helicopters. This technique produces a very realistic sound of the space is trying to capture and has been used a lot since it was created. With the advent of digital technology and high-quality realistic convolution reverb plug-ins it would be really interesting to see how the results between 'worldizing' a sound and using a plug-in compare with each other.
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