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1) How did you get involved? As a matter of fact, our good friend Rod phoned us with the idea of a project around the 24 hours of Le Mans. It was an opportunity to work in a creative environment, with almost no restrictions. The kind of too rare and exciting project you cannot refuse. 2) What do you think of 5.1 sound? With the success of DVD, it is now possible to get creative with 5.1; it was possible in the past, but only a few could enjoy. Also, companies like Steinberg (Nuendo) have made it possible to create in 5.1 at a fraction of the cost of the previous hardware/software combinations. 3) How did you deal with 6 speakers? We approached it in a lo-res way: let's read what experts say you should avoid and just do it. We only respected some left/right conventions when cars go from one side to the other or front/back movements. For the music we had no rules. We know it will not work as well on all the systems (but even for stereo sound that is the case); but it is what makes the work unique. We wanted sound from all sides, not just the front stereo and an enveloping sound from the back. Of course we were lucky that sound design was considered as important as the images by our partners which allowed us to push the envelop into extremes. 4) What made you choose Le Mans? This is 100% Rod and Sharons' choice (the directors); although we both are fans of mechanic sports and beautiful cars. 5) What software/hardware do you use? Hardware, almost everything is done on the Clavia Nord Modular for the synth sounds. A few exceptions are the Oberheim Matrix 12 for some heavy ambient and noise, and Yamaha Vl1 for some organic sounds. A lot was machines going through fx's (some old spring reverb and 01V delays) and improvised. Later all this was cut into place, and loops were destroyed in Cubase 5 on a Mac G3 using some filtering and sound design (cut and cut, sometimes paste). Everything has been recorded with Nuendo software/hardware on a Mac G4, where final edits and mixing/positioning were done. 6) Why did you decide to do 2 versions? This is the nice part of the project. We started with the usual way of functioning when you start a multimedia project: you get the pictures, you work on the soundtrack and the director puts it all together. At this point, we were happy with the result but Rod decided to propose a remix the other way around; we started from scratch with a new soundtrack and he manipulated the pictures to match. Of course, we kept some basic timings from the story board in order to ensure a coherence with the final product; but the general feeling makes it a complete marriage between image and sound. 7) How did you meet Dance51.com? Again, through Rod who introduced us to Bryan at Dance51.com. Bryan was very excited to see us working together for his new company. 8) How do you two work together? Cut and paste collaboration, more cut than paste. We get the raw material, we each work at home and come back to the studio to reassemble the ideas. We've been working together for a long time; we know our limits and how to be complementary to each other. 9) What is your next project? We are already talking about a new collaboration with the same team since we really enjoyed the Speed Tribe project. We will soon release some music tracks with Male or Female - an electronic-psychedelic band. It is a project that musically is very close to Speed Tribe. Later this year we will come back with the new Front 242 album. |