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PICTURED: BBC Two ident - Silly.

BBC Two ident sound design

Posted on 17th March 2019 by The Clean Feed Team
Last updated on 20th November 2021 Filed under News

On Friday, the sound designer on last year’s BBC Two OSP revamp project, Alex Baranowski, published a blog providing some fantastic insights into the thinking behind the soundtracks that accompany the channel’s new idents.

The ident animations are visually inspired by a mood. With around 20 separate idents in the initial batch delivered last year, Alex came up with a connecting thread and recognisable signature to link together all the moods.

Talking about the idea, Alex said: “Rather than producing something distinctly musical with a separate element of ‘sound design’ my immediate thought was to create something that would blur the lines between the two. With much experience working on theatre productions as a composer and sound designer, I was keen to experiment with techniques I’d learnt in that medium when pitching ideas to the team.

“We never wanted the viewer to recognise an instrument – or a sound – so much time was spent re-pitching and modulating recorded sound effects and foley into more ‘musical’ forms – and performing musical instruments in unusual ways to create our own ‘sound effects’ with a musical twist, ending up with an almost believable living soundscape for an environment you could nearly touch.”

EXTERNAL LINK: click here to read the full blog article.

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