Natural silence

Natural silence

For some reason, I just need to share with the world how much I love being out in the wilderness and record natural sounds. There is nothing like putting on headphones and adjusting the microphone pre-amplifier to near-max gain, and realising that there is no man-made sounds to be heard – even with amplified superhearing! Unfortunately it is very hard to find places where this can happen. Especially in tiny Denmark, where you can never walk 10 steps without meeting a road, and sound travels far across the flat agricultural landscape. Luckily I often go to Sweden, and I have this favorite place in Värmland I often visit early in the morning just before dawn, with my recording gear, a small chair and some good coffee. And then I just sit and wait for sound to happen… I’ve just been up there on my easter holiday, and this is what it looks like. I should probably post some recordings as well…

A Royal Affair – Behind the sounds

This rather homemade video shows a little about what we did to create the sound effects for Copenhagen anno 1766 in “A Royal Affair”. Even though the film is historical, we wanted it to sound “modern” and noisy. But since there are no big cities around to record, without cars or other modern noise-polution, we had to create it ourselves. It took us three people and a lot of props to make this noise, that we then doubled many times in the final film, thereby creating this subtle “wall of noise” that is heard (but probably not noticed) throughout the film.