Robot sound design

November 27th, 2021

This year, I decided to change up the sound design project in the middle of DIGA 365. As part of their introduction to modular synthesizers, I asked students to create an original sound design for a robot at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. I started with source video from some home movies in the public domain. I wanted students to get inspiration from other examples, a got some great recommendations from people on Twitter. Before creating their own projects, students researched the following robots & the creators behind their sound design:

  • R2-D2
  • Wall-E
  • Optimus Prime (Transformers)
  • The Iron Giant
  • Rosey (The Jetsons)
  • B-9 (Lost in Space)
  • Fallout

Here’s the final results:

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