If you are curious how we incorporate old and new school technology in sound design for film here is a snippet from the studio. It can more satisfying to create textures and moods from scratch outside of the computer. This method can yield unexpected results and often times surprise you.
This mess of wires and knobs that looks like a antique telephone operator switchboard is actually the building blocks of synthesis developed in the 1950s. These modules are re-creations of a rare Moog system comprised of individual modules that create and manipulate oscillator tones. You have to patch together the modules in order to send the signal to it's different destinations.
Now close your eyes and picture approaching a giant abondoned facility on an isolated alien planet.
