Zach Seivers – Sound Designer

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
by Kevin K. Shah

Zach and I spent the day exploring the sonic landscape of the production offices at Sabi and the surrounding studio, including

WHITE KNUCKLES - SOUND EFFECTS - VOLUME 1

1. Heavy metallic door closing, slamming.
2. Slamming with 5 floors of echo reverb.
3. working elevator shaft sounds
4. deep and shallow air duct vents
5. metallic and concrete stairwells
6. electrical generators
7. electrical hums, buzzes, (great for sounds of lights, flourescents)
8. door slams with echo (sound of a large car door slamming with echo & reverb)
9. empty spaces and shafts
10. whirring fans
11. deadly dark corridors.
12. heavy boiler rooms,
13. morbid silences
14. and haunted corridors
15. a REALLY freaky drippy faucet that everyone will want to use for their next horror film
16. THE HIGHLIGHT;

16. Was the highlight of the day - MOST AMAZINGLY it lasted for 15 minutes of recording : Zach set up for a 15 minute take of the most horrid, horrifying, electrifying, beautiful sounds of beeps, screeches, screams, chains, scraping, mettalic slams, chatter, haunted rhythms and echoes (recorded simultaneous, raw & live — 4 levels beneath the bowels of a los angles building structure in a large tunnel (think Rave). Probably one of the most amazing things I’ve ever heard.

It’s astonishing one man generates such sounds, and his true genius came out. It must have been what it was like to have watched Mozart muse on the piano.

We hope to make available the WHITE KNUCKLES Sound Effects Volume 1 soon…

When came back and listened to the results - we know that we have recorded what will make for excellent sound design options for the abstract sequences in a key moment in White Knuckles, when a character is in great distress…