Tasos Frantzolas: Everything you hear on film is a lie
تاسوس فرانتزولاس: كلّ ما تسمعه في الأفلام هو كذب
Tasos Frantzolas lives and creates at the intersection of audio and technology. Full bio
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of a rainy day.
of one of the videos,
which one the clip with the bacon is.
أيّ فيديو يحوي صوت القلي.
to make you hungry
are conditioned to embrace the lies.
مبرمجة لتقبّل الكذب.
of my favorite authors.
Oscar Wilde establishes the idea
أسسّ (أوسكار وايلد) فكرة أنّ
nature and being realistic;
محاكاة الطّبيعة ومن الواقعيّة،
from lying and deceiving,
in postproduction in a studio.
في مرحلة ما بعد الإنتاج، في الاستوديو.
a bird flapping its wings --
يرفرف بأجنحته --
if you record a sheet
إذا سجّلتَ صوتَ شرشف
ورق النّايلون المستخدم في التّغليف
a knife in vegetables,
سكّين في الخضار،
أو خس مجمد.
is not always as easy
complicated than that.
أكثر من ذلك.
comes from Frank Serafine.
تأتي من (فرانك سيرافيني).
في مكتبتنا الصوتيّة،
and "Star Trek" and others.
و"ستار تريك" وغيرها.
that won the Oscar for best sound
وفاز بجائزة الأوسكار كأفضل مؤثّرات صوتيّة
الحرب الباردة في التّسعينات،
of the propeller of the submarine.
إنتاج صوت مروحة الغوّاصة.
a submarine in West Hollywood.
في هوليوود الغربيّة.
a cannonball, or bomba.
outside the swimming pool.
mic sounds like.
and pitched it one octave down,
بمقدار أوكتاف واحد،
a lot of the high frequencies.
a little bit of the splash
in order to create the illusion
تمكّنوا من إيهامنا
in the world of the story.
جزءًا حيًّا من القصّة.
that is to add reverb.
هي إضافة الصّدى.
I want to talk about.
is the persistence of the sound
around the sound.
الموجودة حول منبع الصّوت.
than half a second long.
it was recorded inside a bathroom.
inside a chapel or a church.
and the original sound source.
ومنبع الصوت الأصلي.
the smell of the sound.
with a lot less reverberation
participating in the on-screen action.
بالأحداث الجارية على الشاشة.
moments in cinema
if someone was speaking inside our ear.
وكأنّ أحدهم يهمس في أذننا.
that we're listening to a flashback,
the head of a character
to the voice of God.
is going to make us pay attention.
ستجلعنا نوجّه اهتمامنا لما هو قادم
and automatic guns.
والأسلحة الرشّاشة.
anymore, after a while.
ستصبح الأصوات العالية شيئاَ عاديًّا.
and loudness needs silence
والضّجيج يحتاج الصمت
it's used in each film.
في كلّ فيلم على حدى.
the head of a character
to the paint their own thoughts.
there is no such thing as silence.
الصمت ليس له وجود.
pretentious TED Talk statement ever.
في تاريخ محادثات TED.
a room with zero reverberation
the pumping of your own blood.
there was never a silent moment
لتقليل الضجيج،
if you listen around you.
thing as silence,
and sound designers use?
they often use ambiences.
of a market in Morocco.
of Times Square in New York.
the noises inside the room:
جميع الأصوات الإضافية في الغرفة:
of my apartment in Brooklyn.
the fridge and street traffic)
ازدحام السيارات)
to our brain subconsciously.
may indicate normality,
يُعتبر شيئًا عاديًّا،
every morning for millions of years.
ولملايين السنين.
have been introduced to us
تم تقديمها لنا
them personally --
of my heroes, David Lynch,
"ديفيد لينش"،
negative connotations.
into our emotional memory.
في ذاكرتنا طويلًا.
divine intervention or anger.
أو إلى تدخّل إلهي.
of the passing of time,
بأنّ الوقت يمرّ،
indicate the end of a relationship
نهاية علاقة عاطفية
instruments played very loud,
of irritation or fear.
بالخوف أو الانزعاج.
about on-screen sounds.
التي تظهرعلى الشاشة.
of a sound cannot be seen.
from Pythagoras in ancient Greece,
a veil or curtain for years,
من خلف الستارة لسنوات،
and philosopher thought that,
more on the voice,
وهو يتحدث.
of ubiquity or panopticism,
بوجود الصوت في كل مكان،
of acousmatic sound.
تُعتبر من التقاليد الصارمة.
used to sing in rooms
على الغناء وهنّ على ارتفاع
to angels up in the sky.
غناء الملائكة في السماء.
created the hidden orchestra
الأوركسترا المخفية الشهيرة
between the stage and the audience.
بين المسرح و الجمهور.
famously hid in dark corners of clubs.
قام بإخفائها في زوايا المسرح المظلمة.
is that by hiding the source,
أنهم بإخفاء مصدر الصوت،
in cinema over and over,
and Ridley Scott in "Alien."
من إخراج هيتشكوك وريدلي سكوت.
restrictions that directors have
من ناحية العرض
that wasn't there during filming.
لم يكن موجودًا أثناء التصوير.
a little theoretical,
to demonstrate with these tools
us geographically;
or it can make us scared.
in love with that language
وقعتُ في حب تلك اللغة
into some sort of profession.
through the sound library,
the vocabulary of that language.
to offer the right tools
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tasos Frantzolas - EntrepreneurTasos Frantzolas lives and creates at the intersection of audio and technology.
Why you should listen
Tasos Frantzolas is a Greek entrepreneur with roots in sound design and music. He is best known as the founder of Soundsnap.com, a sound effects and music library with over one million users and top clients such as HBO, Vice, Apple, NASA, Konami, Microsoft and Pixar.
Growing up in Athens, Greece with a studio under his house, Frantzolas began producing and writing music at the age of 13. He holds a diploma in audio engineering, a BA in sonic arts and an MA in music production and music business. After his education, he enjoyed a brief stint in the UK's music and post-production industries, including sound design work for the BBC and DJing in east London nightclubs. A keen student of electronic and Jamaican music, he has co-written songs with reggae legends such as Horace Andy and Mykal Rose of Black Uhuru.
Frantzolas's business philosophy focuses on the harmony of art and hi-tech and the use of technology to enrich and enable creativity.
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