Peter Greenaway's "The Tulse Luper Suitcases" bij Soundpalette

Bart and Han, assisted by Max Frick, took care of the sound for the new Peter Greenaway film 'the tulse luper suitcase' in April and May. "Taking care of the sound" is rather vague, so to clarify matters, we distinguish between the following activities:

- producing tones and sounds, which give character to the film, or influence it's atmosphere (also called sound design)

- making sure the sound recorded at the set, sounds as good as possible (restoring and mixing)

- making an M&E. This means 'Music and Effects' and signifies the making of a soundtrack that can be used abroad, in countries where films are being dubbed. In these countries the dialogues can be replaced, while all the other sounds, such as footsteps, movement sounds, the sounds of things picked up or put down, etc. are still heard. For this purpose all these sounds need to be reproduced (foley) or cut out of the original sound recorded at the set.

For this project we worked with de Irish 'foley-artist' Caoimhe Doyle, who produced the foley sounds in our studio.

Take a look at the pictures of the recording sessions.

The assistant sound editor was Max Frick, a trainee in music technology. He performed so well that he will do the same job with the following parts of 'Tulse Luper' no longer as trainee but as a Soundpalette employee.

The final mix we procuded in London at Videosonics with Andrew Stirk and Gareth, his assistant.

Bart, July 2003

The three pictures below are links to three fragments (although the pictures do not fit the fragments). There is some info no how we procuded the sound.