October 09, 2020 - 07:15 PM
In this episode, we chat with the sound team from Muse’s Simulation Theory live concert film featuring Supervising Sound Editor & Sound Designer Gerry Vazquez, Re-recording Mixer Aleks von Korff and Re-recording Mixer James Parnell.
September 03, 2020 - 10:00 PM
Told through the eyes of quirky, charming, and humble bandmates: Shawn, Jon, Matt, and Justin, Bleeding Audio is an intimate portrait detailing The Matches’ promising career, defeating break up, and inspiring reunion, as they reflect on what success truly means for musicians in today’s digital industry.
August 18, 2020 - 03:00 PM
We chat with Composer Mark Isham about his recent Emmy nomination on the Hulu show, Little Fires Everywhere and explore the close collaboration with Florence + the Machines’ Isabella Summers and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta. We also discuss their work on the Ingrid Michaelson song “Build it Up” and the covers of “In the Air Tonight” sung by Judith Hill and “Bitch” sung by Ruby Amanfu. We also talk about Mark’s recent work on “Bill & Ted Face the Music” to craft the main title using a Prophet-5 and Moog Modular synthesizers and the direct influence the musical group Weather Report had on Mark’s career.
July 09, 2020 - 01:00 PM
Hamilton is a landmark Broadway production of remarkable scope, now streaming into your home on Disney+. In producing the film version, the show’s creative team sought to give the audience “the best seat in the house,” and in this podcast we talk with original Broadway team artists Alex Lacamoire and Nevin Steinberg along with the film’s sound team Tony Volante, Roberto Fernandez, and Dan Timmons about a number of Hamilton topics, including the challenges of designing a custom sound system for the historic Richard Rodgers Theatre, translating the live show into a cinematic world, and how Dolby Atmos played a key part in giving the audience at home the transformative theatrical experience. We also review clips and discuss in detail the numbers “Alexander Hamilton,” “Satisfied,” and “The Room Where It Happens.”
April 20, 2020 - 07:00 AM
In this episode we chat with re-recording mixer Eric Fischer from Autumn Audio who worked on the new music documentary, Coachella: 20 Years in The Desert.
April 01, 2020 - 03:00 PM
James Mockoski, head of production and archives at American Zoetrope joins us this week to discuss his work supervising the restoration department for Director Francis Ford Coppola’s production company. We discuss his recent work on the 4K Dolby Atmos release of Apocalypse Now: Final Cut and other titles including The Conversation, The Godfather and Lost in Translation.
March 30, 2020 - 05:45 PM
In this episode we chat with Crip Camp Directors James Lebrecht & Nicole Newnham about how the project developed, structuring their complex storyline and the deeper issues the film addresses. Crip Camp won the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix worldwide.
February 27, 2020 - 08:15 PM
We chat with Miles Rogers from Meyer Sound about a wide range of cinema focused speakers including the Bluehorn System, Amie Precision Studio Monitor, HMS Cinema Surround Loudspeakers and the VLFC (Very Low Frequency Control Element) recently used by Director Francis Ford Coppola for Apocalypse Now: Final Cut.
January 29, 2020 - 02:45 PM
As a large-scale historical film, 1917 creates an intense and realistic soundscape of World War I. In this episode, we talk with the sound team, nominated for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing, about the challenges and fun experiences that arose from this film. In part 1, we talk with ADR and dialogue supervisor Rachael Tate about blending the unique amount of sound coverage into the film, trying to work with minimum ADR, and making sure that even background chatter is historically realistic. In part 2, production sound mixer Stuart Wilson shares challenges with mic placements, the importance of on-set sound for creating realistic tension, and the trust and communication among the production.
January 28, 2020 - 04:00 PM
Supervising sound editors Matthew Wood and David Acord delve into the conceptual and sonic intricacies of evolving “force lightning,” and about working in stages from temp mixes to the final mix in a film with a legacy. They share experiences working playfully and dynamically with director J.J. Abrams, recording lines in actor Adam Driver’s closet, and working on previous Star Wars films.
January 27, 2020 - 04:00 PM
Three time Academy Award-winning re-recording mixer Michael Minkler, multiple Oscar-nominated supervising sound editor Wylie Stateman, and effects mixer Christian Minkler discuss how they recreated 1969 Los Angeles for director Quentin Tarantino, including their approach to building the distinctive sound of the vintage television shows within the movie. They deconstruct the sound of the extraordinary Spahn Movie Ranch sequence, and discuss why Tarantino chooses to use songs rather than traditional musical score.
January 24, 2020 - 05:30 PM
In this episode, 7 time Academy Award-winner Gary Rydstrom delves into using sound to create an increasingly unsettling journey for the audience through the use of subliminal ambiences, manipulated vocal loops, and strategically used distortion. We also deconstruct the film’s signature lunar rover chase sequence and discuss the film’s rules of sound, an important topic to director James Gray.
January 23, 2020 - 03:15 PM
Ford v Ferrari is so much more than a race car movie. At its core, it’s a movie about a friendship, and about two men fighting for what they believe. In this episode production sound mixer Steven Morrow shares some insight to recording cars for Ford v Ferrari, his humble roots as an unpaid boom operator and his theories on why sound people are the nicest people on set.