Carl Sondrol :: blog

film composer / sound designer

Archive for May, 2010

Viral Video Pet Store

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Here’s a project from the vault- I produced some “demented shopping music” for this short in 2008. I used mellotron choirs for the melody and then slowly shifted the pitch of the entire piece up and down throughout to give an uneasy rocking feel. Finally, I added EQ and lots of reverb to get that [...]

A doo-wop monster ballad

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Doo-wop Monster Song for Johanna A couple years ago, I was creating some test monster voices for a filmmaker friend. I brought in my very animated friend Johanna to get some female options. It was a hilarious session to say the least. A while later I randomly came across them and decided to make a [...]

Grammar Nazis

Friday, May 14th, 2010

I had a fun time scoring this pitch perfect Inglorious Basterds Parody. I even play a bit of accordion for the intro (a la the Nick Perito piece in the real film) over a whopping 3 chords by regular session player Max Crowe. For the rest of the score we decided on subtle tension building, [...]

Mask-O!

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

The first new project I’m posting this month is a 2-second “song” for animator extraordinaire Mike Parker’s CollegeHumor project. My good friend Jason Jackson provides vocals dripping with game show schmaltz. It’s about halfway through. Jason and I have a long musical history together- he was the singer in our science-themed band accompanied by live [...]

Webby Awards: Victory!

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

               I’m very excited to announce that Pixar Intro Parody has won both the Webby AND the People’s Voice awards for Best Animation.  Furthermore, Web Site Story has garnered the People’s Voice Award for Best Comedy Short.   Thank you so much for voting, everyone!! Also, high five to all at CollegeHumor who worked on the [...]

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