There, he designed something called the Audio Signal Processor, the mainframe on which the Deep Note sound would be created – alongside pioneering sound design production techniques for Jedi, Temple of Doom, and more. Moorer was also an advisor to Paris’ IRCAM, where he worked on speech analysis and synthesis – for a ballet company.Īnd he worked in research and development at Lucasfilm’s The Droid Works. (Today, superstars like doctoral student Holly Herndon go there, to study with teachers like Ge Wang who managed both to invent the ChucK programming language and reimagine the phone as an instrument with the hugely successful Smule.)ĭr. In the 70s, he co-founded and co-directed Stanford’s CCRMA research center, which continues to give birth to leading figures in music technology.
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Moorer has four patents to his name and a series of lives in technology. Moorer, says a lot about the massive pace of creative technology in the past decades.ĭr. Dre lost a suit by Lucasfilm when he used it without permission in his song ‘2001’.)īut the history of the sound, and of Dr. The sound itself is patented – and using it unaltered, without permission, can land you in hot water. Tiny Tunes had fun with it, too (in the domain of parody, rather than an exact copy): See the brilliant authorized Simpsons parody: Less is more: that elegant rectangle plays against the holy $#*(& my face is about the melt off!!$#($*& effect of the sound. The one that probably springs to mind is “Broadway”, which features a blue frame on the screen. “Wings” was the first, heralding the arrival of Lucasfilm’s theater sound certification process. This is actually the third major version of the Deep Note trailer. You can in the meanwhile watch the trailer here, though I think you’ll really want a THX-certified theater for this, obviously (through stereo headphones and whatever they’ve used to encode it here, it isn’t really distinguishable from the original): Here’s a look at that history and where it’s come. James ‘Andy’ Moorer, to remake his legendary sound design for modern theater audio technology. THX called upon the original creator of Deep Note, Dr. It made its launch in 1983 – right before Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, no less.īut it seems the THX “Deep Note” was due for an upgrade. It’s one of the best-known electronic sounds ever – perhaps the best electronic sound branding in history.
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