Nice piece on Skywalker Sound blog on creating the sounds for Star Wars.
Skywalker Sound on the Lightsabre
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Kingsley Marshall is an academic and journalist who lectures in film and contributes music and film criticism, features and reviews to Little White Lies, Shook and Big Screen magazines in the UK. He was appointed Technical Editor at Clash magazine in 2010, where he writes a technology and games column.