Desert Island Discs

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Eight tracks, a book ...
NPR

KOFA Sounds of the Desert Podcast

Sounds of the Desert or Los Sonidos del Desierto showcases the work of KOFA Border Radio’s student interns. Hosted, engineered, and produced by this talented team of rising stars, Sounds of the Desert ...
Yahoo

‘Sirât’ Composer Kangding Ray on How Synths Helped Craft the Film’s Techno Score and Create Desert Sounds

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât” is both ambitious and radical, according to the film’s composer and musician Kangding Ray. “Sirât” is Oscar ...
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How Dune’s desert came alive through sound

The sound design of Dune’s films turns the fictional deserts of Arrakis into an immersive sensory reality. Using real desert recordings, inventive layering, and spatial mixing, the teams shaped a ...
Variety

‘Sirāt’s’ All-Female Sound Team on Making Oscar History and How They Captured Wind, Engines and Tires to Create a Desert Ambiance

Spain’s Oscar entry for international feature, “Sirāt,” not only earned a nod in that category, it also made history when the film’s sound team was recognized. Supervising sound editor Laia Casanovas, ...
Tucson Weekly

A Sonoran Song Cycle

Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St. Jacob Acosta has lived in the desert for as long as he’s made music. He was born here, and he’s embraced it. The same goes for songwriting. After releasing more than ...
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'Sirât' composer Kangding Ray on how synths helped craft the film's techno score and create desert sounds

Oliver Laxe's "Sirât" is both ambitious and radical, according to the film's composer and musician Kangding Ray. "Sirât" is Oscar shortlisted across numerous categories, including casting, ...