Sunday Synth Jam: Sound designer & composer Diego Stocco‘s Dustland is a cinematic sounding electroacoustic improvisation, recorded with Stocco’s Fence Bass: This instrument has a rough and edgy sound since it’s all made of metal, so I imagined a piece that could work in a modern Western film, I’m a fan of the genre. Everything… Read More Diego Stocco’s Dustland
The Blue Man Group is having a contest for kids in grades 5-9 to invent a new instrument. It’s a cool opportunity. Kids get to: design a cool instrument; have it judged by the likes of Pat Metheny, Ludacris, Steve Van Zandt and Nile Rodgers; and have a chance to win up to $5,000. For… Read More Blue Man Group Challenges Kids To Invent An Instrument, Win $5,000
Sound designer and composer Diego Stocco had a bunch of old junk lying around, including the keyboard of a dismantled piano and a chimney cap. So he did what any self-respecting sound design super-guru would do, and made a franken-instrument, the Bassoforte:. Few days ago I started thinking about how I could re-purpose the keyboard… Read More Diego’s Bassoforte Jam
The latest episode of Motherboard.tv’s Sound Builders features sound designer and composer Diego Stocco: In episode 2 of Sound Builders, we travel to Burbank, CA to hang out with sound designer and composer Diego Stocco. In addition to writing music for video games and licensing music to little films like Terminator, Diego has committed his… Read More The Sound Design Of Diego Stocco
If there’s a MacGyver of music, it’s probably Diego Stocco. Stocco’s a sound designer and composer who likes to explore new sound opportunities afforded by unusual instruments and non-instruments. Give the guy a tree, a pile of sand or maybe a burning piano, and he’ll make music with it.
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Hans Zimmer and Diego Stocco talk about the Experibass on Sherlock Holmes’ score was uploaded by: DSSessionVideos
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This is another absolutely amazing video from sound designer/composer Diego Stocco: Few weeks ago I visited a luthier looking for instruments parts, I had an idea in mind for an instrument I wanted to build. My curiosity was to hear the sound of violin, viola and cello strings amplified through the body of a double… Read More Diego Stocco’s Experibass – Must See Music Video
Sound designer and composer Diego Stocco created this beautiful showcase of his work, Music From A Tree. Stocco explains his technique: In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a… Read More Diego Stocco Makes Music From A Tree
Music From Sand is another wonderful video that demonstrates the creative sound design of Diego Stocco: Explains Stocco: I had some sandbags in the backyard that I used in November during a rainy day. I was moving them to a different spot when I heard the noise of the sand. I thought that maybe I… Read More Diego Stocco – Music From Sand
