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M OT I O N P I CTU R E S O U N D E D I TO R S 73 An important aspect of my work is the idea of previsualisation, which I think of as seeing the potential. But I don't have an ego that needs to think I can preconceive everything. In a sense it is like travel—the best experiences when travelling occur because you researched, you made a plan and committed to it. But it is only when you are actually on the journey that you make discoveries that no one could have predicted while they were back at home. The plan gets me started, but being curious and open to discovery is absolutely vital. An aspect of my film work which has been rewarding for HISSandaROAR is that after every major film project, I would reward myself by buying a musical instrument. My double bass was a reward after the film Perfect Strangers, my Trixon vibraphone was due to 30 Days of Night, my modular synth was started due to Boy, etc. And as a sound effects editor, it always frustrated me that musical instruments in sound libraries were always restricted to traditional use, and yet every kid knows those iconic cartoon sound effects, many of which were created by creatively using a musical instrument. I have spent decades exploring the sound effects possible from musical instruments, and if you'd told me I can make great creature vocals by using friction mallets on a gong and a pair of timpani, I would have thought you were nuts, but here we are! Expanding from that idea, I have become addicted to shopping at junk stores and industrial recycling plants. It amuses me to overhear how people notice what I'm doing, for example, "Some bloke (me) is checking the tuning of the spanners!" and then going on to laugh about how they saw the same person (me) loading a grain auger into his dad's car and "it was so large it barely fitted." Those grain augers are like giant 10-foot-long springs, and they sound incredible, but were just gathering rust in someone's yard. Giant auger springs suspended on bungee cord (2024). Tim's authentic Richard A. Waters' MegaBass Waterphone, with some clones. Tim's DIY giant waterphone built in 2018 and altered often.