{"id":14694,"date":"2012-03-16T05:37:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T05:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14694"},"modified":"2012-03-16T05:37:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T05:37:05","slug":"walter-murch-on-the-digital-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/03\/16\/walter-murch-on-the-digital-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Murch on the Digital Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Walter-Murch-at-the-Chicago-Humanities-Festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14697\" title=\"Walter Murch at the Chicago Humanities Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Walter-Murch-at-the-Chicago-Humanities-Festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The art and science of cinema is undergoing seismic changes as it completes the transition from analogue to digital.<\/p>\n<p>Who better to guide us through this transition than legendary editor and sound designer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Murch\">Walter Murch<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>He recently discussed\u00a0the evolution of film technology from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/5.1_surround_sound\">5.1 sound<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Final_Cut_Pro\">Final Cut Pro<\/a>\u00a0with Lawrence Weschler at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagohumanities.org\/Blog\/Lawrence-Weschler\/Walter-Murch.aspx\">Chicago Humanities Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an editor Murch&#8217;s career\u00a0has straddled the transition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/15\/from-celluloid-to-digital\/\">from traditional celluloid to modern digital cinema<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But he is equally important as a sound designer, virtually inventing <a href=\"http:\/\/soundandinteraction.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/10\/the-sound-of-%E2%80%9Capocalypse-now%E2%80%9D\/\">5.1 surround sound<\/a> with Coppola on Apocalypse Now.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the hour long discussion here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgrt8H4DucI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Among the subjects they discussed were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_(2008_TV_series)\">Clone Wars<\/a> he recently directed<\/li>\n<li>How THX 1138 (1971) began as a student project<\/li>\n<li>The last completely analogue film he worked on was Fred Zinneman&#8217;s <a title=\"Julia (1977 film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julia_(1977_film)\">Julia<\/a>\u00a0(1977)<\/li>\n<li>How the work print of\u00a0<a title=\"Apocalypse Now\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apocalypse_Now\">Apocalypse Now<\/a>\u00a0(1979) weighed 7 tonnes<\/li>\n<li>The link between information, energy and money<\/li>\n<li>A truly brilliant comparison between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Late-2000s_financial_crisis\">the financial meltdown<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cancer\">cancer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Murch\">Walter Murch at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsound.org\/murch\/murch.htm\">Collected articles on Walter Murch at Film Sound<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/15\/from-celluloid-to-digital\/\">From Celluloid to Digital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary editor and sound designer Walter Murch recently gave an illuminating talk at the Chicago Humanities Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2480,16],"tags":[1417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}