Black Harvest

LOM Uši - AKG P220 - Rode NTG2

Reverb Tank - Moka Pot - Leather Bag - Broken Glass - Steel Toed Boots - Tin Can - Paper - Clothing Iron - Hollow Metal Bin

LOM Uši - AKG P220 - Rode NTG2

Reverb Tank - 50 Gallon Steel Drum - Bootsteps in Water - Chain on Djembe

For the bubbles, I filled a 50 gallon steel drum with water, threw dry ice into it, and lowered a hydrophone in to collect the true texture.

LOM Uši - AKG P220 - Rode NTG2 - Organic Audio Cjossul

Crows - Fish Bones - Bucket of Water - Water Bottle(s) - Pouring Liquid - Moka Pot - Coin in Water - 50 Gallon Steel Drum - Dry Ice - Dr Pepper - Ice Cubes

For the hound, I recorded my own dogs, Sir Charles Archibald Barkley II and Lady Willow Guinevere Barkley, while I fed them: eating, chewing, licking their lips. I couldn't have gotten the emotion of that creature properly without recording my own dogs, and having the two of them emoting the same thing in unison gives it a much more monstrous, otherworldly feel. The 50 gallon steel drum is the claws on metal.

LOM Uši - AKG P220 - Zoom F3

Sir Charles Archibald Barkley II - Lady Willow Guinevere Barkley - Eating, Chewing, Lip Licking - 50 Gallon Steel Drum

Knives scraping together, salt falling on paper, and a 50 gallon steel drum clanking against itself. The ice cracking in a bowl was recorded with the LOM Geofon, a contact microphone. For the whooshes, I swung a moving blanket hard enough to overload a Shure SM57.

LOM Uši - LOM Geofon - AKG P220 - Shure SM57

Knives - Ice in a Bowl - Moving Blanket - Salt on Paper - 50 Gallon Steel Drum

The 50 gallon steel drum, clacking against itself, gave me a great, natural feeling sound for the inside of the tankers they hide in. The burning is an orange, lit with the flame from the Zippo.

LOM Uši - AKG P220 - Rode NTG2 - Shure SM57 - Zoom F3

Leather Bag - Buckles - Mic Case Buckle - Zippo Lighter - Burning Orange - 50 Gallon Steel Drum

For the claws outside their container, I lightly clanged the metal of a closed 50 gallon steel drum together. The impact is a flimsy aluminum crate closing. Salt sprinkled onto paper emulates the sand.

LOM Uši - AKG P220 - Rode NTG2

50 Gallon Steel Drum - Aluminum Crate - Rocks on a Car Heat Shield - Salt on Paper - Tabletop Stapler

The final destination of the hero's journey is a big, goopy, nasty, living, slimy palace with people inside of it. Cantaloupe and lettuce gave me those sounds.

LOM Uši - AKG P220

Cantaloupe - Lettuce

As the hero progresses, the sonic palette moves from the environment, the sounds you hear outside of the human being, to sounds that get more internal: breathing into a giant bucket, breathing into a tube, wet mouth sounds and sloppy lip sounds.

LOM Uši - AKG P220

Breath in a Giant Bucket - Breath in a Tube - Wet Mouth Sounds - Lip Sounds - Cantaloupe

I layered dry ice wedged against metal: a tool, a heat shield from the bottom of my car, and a 50 gallon steel drum. The Cjossul, a contact microphone, recorded the vibrations of the steel drum from the screech, and the Ušis recorded the screech of the dry ice itself. Then a violin bow on a Tibetan singing bowl and on a crystal wine glass.

LOM Uši - Organic Audio Cjossul - AKG P220

Dry Ice - Metal Tool - Car Heat Shield - 50 Gallon Steel Drum - Violin Bow - Tibetan Singing Bowl - Crystal Wine Glass

The vibrations of rain falling on a porch in a rainstorm, captured with the LOM Geofon contact mic, and raindrops hitting a window. Ginger beer poured from the bottle and a champagne flute into a glass bowl, and one half full ginger beer bottle shaken for the splash. Gargling water, a water bottle cap taken off loudly, water poured into a bucket, a moka pot handled whole and detached, water drops on a rain jacket, and a running laundry dryer.

LOM Uši - LOM Geofon - AKG P220 - Rode NTG2

Rain on a Window - Rain on a Porch - Moka Pot - Water Bottle - Ginger Beer Bottles - Champagne Flute - Glass Bowl - Gargling Water - Water Drops on a Rain Jacket - Laundry Dryer - Bucket

The cork of a scotch bottle, popped, for the vial. The LOM Ušis sat right against the window, and the LOM Geofon right against the wood of the porch, which is good for simulating the sound of rain vibrating through the roof and creating an audible sound on the other side. That's why a contact mic is really good for this.

LOM Uši - LOM Geofon

Rain on a Window - Rain on a Porch - Ginger Beer Bottles - Scotch Bottle Cork

This is the sound of a bunch of the monsters in the film all eating human flesh and crunching on bone, all around the viewer. I recorded it on my knees in a treated closet at around 2 AM, eating a steamed crab to get the bone crunch: tearing a banana peel, chewing a banana, slurping butter, sucking on lemony, buttery crab, and sloppily biting into a red bell pepper.

LOM Uši - AKG P220

Banana - Banana Peel - Steamed Crab - Lemon Butter - Red Bell Pepper

The insect sound is a broken old violin, bowed in a completely atonal way. The sand on the wind is salt on a piece of paper. The crows are layered with crows in a tree outside my house. We didn't want to show it, but the bones being crunched is the sound of cracking open a steamed crab. The footsteps are steel toed boots walking on broken glass.

LOM Uši - AKG P220

Broken Violin - Violin Bow - Salt on Paper - Crows - Steamed Crab - Steel Toed Boots - Broken Glass