Sound, to a scientist, it’s a wave. To a musician, it’s art. And to the rest of us, it’s entertainment. Sound can help you change how you feel in an instant. This is the beauty of sound.

Audio
Now let’s focus in to Philippine TV, if you watch Philippine TV shows. The sound that you hear through your TV, or your PC (i.e. Youtube) sounds flat. There’s not that much care in audio production. Until Philippine TV studios understand this concept, audio will probably the least appreciated department in terms of production.

Sound Effects
Sound effects are there to enhance the experience of the show. It is not there to pull the distract the viewer. Sound effects libraries are available, yet why not use them wisely in Philippine TV. And there are also free sound effects out there that are available for free (wait, did I say free?). For Christ’s sakes, use them because the effects you have on the shows are nicely put… CRAPPY.

Soundtracks
From what I’ve seen heard so far this has been improving substantially, probably due to licensing bands and artists.

Examples:

How can sound affect the mood of the film:

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I’m not sure about you but for some reason this fight sound effects sounds a lot like the all the Filipino action movies. I’m not even sure if they have re-recorded this particular sound effect probably recycling the sound effect from the ‘70. In addition, this fight scene looks, how should I put it… “fake” you’ll see/hear what I mean. (Scene from Rounin)

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Sound effects comparison to Heroes:

Sound is half of the entertainment, so fix it.

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I think I’m on a roll about music hehe… See There’s no Pop Songs in the Philippines

I was in contact with the site admin of Pinoy Centric, (you have to check them out!) and its been awhile since I asked them a question… If there’s any band/group that uses traditional instruments in the Philippines to create rock/modern music.

This might be a weird question or an odd combination… rock and traditional… what the hey!? Are you nuts? Traditional is traditional and modern is modern.

Making “modern” and or (*gasp*) pop music with traditional instruments can sound great.

Examples:

Japan has the Yoshida Brothers:

Now what does it sound with a rock group singing?

Monkey Majik (Canadian Teachers that became a hit in Japan) + Yoshida Brothers

And China has the Twelve Girls Band (they’re actually 13… one backup) HQ Version (37 mb, wmv)

Another sample, playing New Classicism, due to youtube the HQ version is gone

Where’s the group that uses kulinta from Magindanao, with the nose flutes and gangsa from the north with a mix of guitar from the Spanish. And maybe a great vocalist (you probably don’t even have to). Now you got a great band with the whole Filipino pride behind it.

Filipinos are even crazy about music see Indonesia, Philippines have most music-mad youngsters

Addendum:

Just have to put this in too! Classic Music done for modern times

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Yup that’s right, it seems there’s no such thing as pop songs in the Philippines, if there are, its rare or imported from another country i.e. USA, Japan, Korea.

This is pretty bold statement but I think I can provide some evidence of this.

For some reason “pop” music in the Philippines has been categorized with ballads and/or alternatives. There are great bands over there doing covers of rock ballads or singing their own compositions. But it’s still not “pop” music.

Pop artist/s are “packaged and groomed” as an individual artist and/or as part of a group.

If I may, the categories that are dominant in the Philippines are ballad, alternative, rock, weird ones (otso, otso), dance, rap, R&B, Christian, revivals, and traditional. But no poppish beat.

Now there’s no reason why should anyone wonder that Japanese/Korean/ American pop music are popular in the PI, because there’s no artist/s that has been doing this type of pop songs.

One can argue, pop music is really whatever is popular. But pop has elements of that one can dance too, a repeating beat, and pretty simple melodies with wide range of sound. One is yet to find this in Filipino music, to make it sound “edgy and modern” .

Korean,and Japanese Pop has been popular even in the U.S. because of it’s beats and intersting syncopations.

But where’s Fil-Pop? or maybe Flip-pop?

Thanks to youtube, I can cite some samples:

The only “poppish” thing I can relate to as of now is this music video by Iya Villania’s “Good To Be Me”

Now, if the language of the Philippines is Chinese then these would be the current “pop” music in the Philippines

As a comparison this is apparently the pop music in the PI as of now.

Now let’s see some samples of what pop is in Japan:She’s half -filipino and very popular in Japan right now. Leah Dizon

The first search result on Youtube with a query of Jpop (ok I know BOA is Korean, but she’s fluent in Japanese)

And the two most popular female singers in Japan.

Korean Pop Samples:BOA singing in English

H.O.T. arguably the one of the boybands that lead K-pop

American Sample:Britney Spears

It’s really quite surprising that Flip-pop/filpop has not develop yet even though it’s heavily influence by western music. It’s an untapped, and very profitable market.Yes I coined the term: Flip-pop/filpop

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