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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.
August 06, 2020 - 01:00 PM
In this conversation we chat with the sound team from Naughty Dog to discuss their extensive work on The Last of Us: Part 2. We explore the gun and foley sound recordings, creating the terrifying sounds of the infected, the whistle language of the Seraphites, the unique glass and breathing sound systems, Ellie’s guitar gameplay sounds and much more!
July 30, 2020 - 01:00 PM
Netflix’s new limited series Unorthodox follows Esty, a young woman growing up in an ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn, as she seeks to escape the restrictive life of her community for a new life in Berlin. But her husband and members of the community want her back home, and follow Esty into her new life, seeking to convince her to return. In this in-depth conversation about the sound design and mix of the show, the sound team discusses getting the authenticity of the ultra-Orthodox community right and how sound helped flashbacks slowly reveal the details of Esty’s story. We also discuss how director Maria Schrader created great sound moments at the script stage, and preserved and created room for those moments as she edited and filmed the show.
July 23, 2020 - 03:45 PM
In Locke & Key, a mother and her children move to an ominous ancestral house after the mysterious death of the children’s father. There, they begin to discover the house’s ancient mysteries, which revolve around a series of keys which unlock magical environments and disturbing powers.
July 18, 2020 - 05:30 PM
Composer Mac Quayle discusses working on The Last of Us Part II with Composer Gustavo Santaolalla and Naughty Dog Studios. We discuss the creative process for scoring a wide range of musical textures that were implemented throughout the game including Mac’s music that was used for the 2018 E3 game preview. Mac shares his approach to scoring for video games and using the Resonant Garden, an acoustic-electronic hybrid instrument.
July 16, 2020 - 01:00 PM
In the Netflix series Ozark, Marty and Wendy appear to have a normal suburban life, but that’s all a front for their real job: laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel. As with the story, the sound in the show is working on multiple levels, and in this episode Sound Supervisor Nick Forshager and Mixer Larry Benjamin take us through constructing the sonic environments of riverboat casinos and basement dungeons, and talk about how to use sound design and music to relentlessly build tension until the shocking resolution of the final episode of season 3.
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.”
July 02, 2020 - 01:00 PM
Cinema director David Fincher created one of the first original streaming series with House of Cards, and his innovative spirit infuses the Netflix original series Mindhunter, now in its second season.
July 01, 2020 - 03:00 PM
In this exclusive conversation we chat with Re-recording Mixer Marc Fishman and Supervising Sound Editor Mark Relyea about Little Fires Everywhere which is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Celeste Ng and currently streaming on Hulu.
June 25, 2020 - 01:00 PM
In season 3, the Emmy-award winning Westworld leaves the parks behind for the sounds of the “real” world, circa 2057. In this episode, the sound team behind the remarkable show discusses showrunner Jonah Nolan’s design concept that noise-reduction technology has progressed to the point that the world seems quiet and peaceful…until the climactic end when all technology fails and the world devolves into chaos. The conversation also includes a discussion of mixing the show natively in Dolby Atmos, and the challenges of finishing post production as the world went into Covid-19 lockdown.
June 18, 2020 - 01:00 PM
Bonnie Wild, the sound effects editor and re-recording mixer of Disney+’s hit show The Mandalorian, takes us behind the scenes for a conversation about achieving cinematic scale and production value on a television budget, balancing the palette of new sound creation with classic Star Wars sounds we all know and love, why mixing in a home theater environment was important for the show, and how to do a Jawa loop group session.
June 03, 2020 - 02:00 AM
This week we chat with Composer Kris Bowers about his recent work on the Hulu show, Mrs. America and the challenges of completing his score during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
March 24, 2020 - 08:30 PM
We chat about how Moon Studios discovered Gareth’s music online, the creative and technical process for composing a wide range of characters and we explore some fav themes!
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.
January 22, 2020 - 08:15 PM
Academy Award-winning production sound mixer Mark Ulano talks about his double nominations for Ad Astra and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, and his remarkable 25-year collaboration with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. He discusses how he uses microphones to achieve different kinds of emotion for the audience and gives practical advice for how to keep your cool on a tense movie set.
January 22, 2020 - 07:30 PM
Academy Award-winning sound supervisor Alan Murray and re-recording mixers Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic discuss how they used impressionistic sound design to take the audience inside Arthur Fleck’s mind. They also deconstruct the film’s centerpiece subway confrontation and let the audience in on how a simple door creak can unnerve an audience. In the second part of this conversation, production sound mixer Tod Maitland discusses the challenges of capturing a gritty and disturbing 1970s Gotham City on the streets of a very modern-day New York.
January 01, 2020 - 07:00 PM
SoundWorks Collection was started in 2009 with the simple goal to profile the greatest and upcoming sound minds from around the world and highlight their contributions. Over the past decade we have had the incredible honor to meet hundreds of sound artists and help share their incredible stories. We are excited for the future and thank the worldwide sound community for the ongoing support!
December 23, 2019 - 10:00 PM
Martin Scorsese’s longtime sound collaborators Eugene Gearty and Tom Fleischman (Oscar-winners for Hugo) have joined the acclaimed filmmaker once again for the epic film The Irishman. Much has been written about the visual effects used to de-age the actors playing the main characters, and in this episode we talk about the attempts made to de-age the sound of the actors voices, the challenges of building the film’s minimalist sound track, and the working collaboration Eugene and Tom have crafted over the years with Scorsese and his legendary film editor, Thelma Schoonmaker.
December 23, 2019 - 07:45 PM
Supervising Sound Editor Hunter Curra describes his work over the past four seasons of Rick and Morty and collaborating with co-creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. We discuss the various interdimensional adventures, unique animation workflow and Rick’s burping sound library.
December 16, 2019 - 06:30 PM
Matthew Wood and David Acord, co-sound supervisors on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, have been working on the sound of the SW films for nearly two decades. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on the audio restorations of the original films, the voice of Baby Yoda from the new streaming series The Mandalorian, the importance of sound to George Lucas…and even the controversy about whether Han or Greedo shot first and the notorious “Maclunkey.”
December 13, 2019 - 04:30 PM
We chat with re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor Lee Walpole about his recent work on Director Tom Harper’s film, The Aeronauts. The film is in theaters now and will be streaming on Amazon Prime Video starting December 20th!
December 10, 2019 - 05:15 PM
Join filmmakers Josh & Benny Safdie for a behind-the-scenes conversation about their new film Uncut Gems. The brothers discuss how they used sound design and music to create the perilous, uncomfortable world of Adam Sandler’s character, Howard Ratner. They are joined by composer Daniel Lopatin, who talks about using the classic 1970s Moog synthesizer to create the movie’s emotional score, and re-recording mixer Skip Lievsay, who talks about how he used Dolby Atmos to give the audience the experience of being in the world of the characters. Recorded in front of a live audience at the New York Film Festival Artist Academy.
December 03, 2019 - 01:30 AM
ASCAP winning and MTV VMA nominated composer Tom Salta is one of the most versatile and prolific music artists/producers working in film, television, advertising and video games. Renowned for crafting emotionally engaging soundtracks for multimedia, Salta has received widespread industry acclaim for his world-class produced hybrid scores featured in film, television and video games such as Machine Games’ WOLFENSTEIN : Youngblood & Cyberpilot, Microsoft’s iconic HALO series (G.A.N.G. Best Original Soundtrack Award), Ubisoft’s PRINCE OF PERSIA: The Forgotten Sands and RED STEEL (IGN Award for Best Original Score), Tom Clancy’s GHOST RECON and H.A.W.X series, as well as the epic theme music for the record-breaking online multiplayer game PLAYERUNKNOWN’s BATTLEGROUNDS, which has sold in excess of 50 million units with over 400 million players.
November 26, 2019 - 04:15 PM
In this episode we catch up with the picture editor and sound team behind the Elton John biopic Rocketman to discuss the film’s unique blend of pre-recorded music, live singing on set, and post-recorded songs. The team unpacks numerous musical sequences in the film, including the famous Troubadour concert featuring the song “Crocodile Rock,” and the collaboration with music producer Giles Martin to create the film’s signature sound.
November 25, 2019 - 04:15 AM
Join Lindsey Alvarez and Robert Stambler as they share their creative process behind some of today’s most interesting-sounding creatures, superheroes, and villains. This masterclass presentation will illuminate the important role of creative sound work and the close collaboration of the sound team and director. Featured projects include THX Genesis Trailer, 10 Cloverfield Lane and Overlord!
November 19, 2019 - 05:45 AM
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 the sound team talks about the carving out moments for internal character sounds to come through, the process of tracking down the original cars to keep the film sounding real, and the challenges of building a 45-minute racing sequence and keeping it acoustically interesting.
November 14, 2019 - 11:30 PM
We chat with the Obsidian Entertainment sound team to discuss their recent video game release, The Outer Worlds!
November 05, 2019 - 10:30 PM
Carnival Row is an expansive, visually and aurally opulent murder mystery series from Amazon. Join mixers Marc Fishman and Robert Carr as they talk about how one goes about creating the sound of flying faeries’ wings, why Dolby Atmos was part of the concept of the sound of the series right from the beginning, and how one of the major plot points of the series was communicated to the audience through Foley, with no dialog.
October 29, 2019 - 06:00 PM
Join the team behind the sound and music of Stranger Things 3 for a discussion about how the sound of the show has evolved and grown over three seasons, delivering cinema quality sound on an episodic schedule and budget, how to preserve that experience across all home platforms, the challenges of keeping creature sounds fresh and new, and finally, how the famous Neverending Story sequence came together.
October 25, 2019 - 05:00 AM
We chat with Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer Damian Volpe to discuss his recent collaboration with visionary Director Robert Eggers and explore his new film, The Lighthouse.
October 22, 2019 - 06:00 PM
Film sound legends Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Ben Burtt (Star Wars, Wall•E), Gary Rydstrom (Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan) and Making Waves director Midge Costin join Dolby Institute director Glenn Kiser in conversation before a live audience after the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The wide-ranging discussion touches on the role of subjective sound in creative storytelling, why the sound of Wall•E’s voice made some people cry, and how famed director Francis Ford Coppola uses what he calls “silent take 6.”
October 05, 2019 - 07:00 AM
Re-recording mixer Cheryl Ottenritter discusses documentary sound design & Dolby Atmos mixing at the Mix Magazine Sound for Film & TV event at Sony Studios on Saturday, September 28, 2019.
September 26, 2019 - 05:00 AM
We chat with the sound team of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance which was recently released as a 10-episode series on Netflix. In this conversation we chat with Re-Recording Mixer / sound designer / supervising sound editor Tim Nielsen, foley artist Shelley Roden and supervising adr editor Tim Hands.
August 22, 2019 - 09:00 AM
Re-recording mixer Pete Horner discusses the incredible process of restoring and remixing the 40th anniversary edition of Apocalypse Now: Final Cut that was recently released in Dolby Atmos and 4K Ultra HD. Pete shares how he created a new master track, enhanced the LFE with the help of a new Meyer Sound speaker and collaborated with Director Francis Ford Coppola and Walter Murch.
August 05, 2019 - 06:00 AM
In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection conversation, we chat with the sound team behind Director Quentin Tarantino’s film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Featuring Production Sound Mixer Mark Ulano, Supervising Sound Editor Wylie Stateman and Re-Recording Mixer Michael Minkler!
July 11, 2019 - 09:00 PM
As president and CEO of Bleeding Fingers Music and Extreme Music, Russell Emanuel is a trailblazing leader, innovator, and producer in the music industry. Bleeding Fingers is one of the leading producers of quality-crafted film and television scores in the world, bolstered by a unique creative association and business partnership with industry legend, Hans Zimmer, and his long-term business partner, Steve Kofsky.
June 08, 2019 - 10:00 PM
We chat with re-recording mixer Mike Prestwood Smith about his recent work on Rocketman and explore his creative process recreating the iconic songs that defined Elton John’s career and personal journey.
May 22, 2019 - 06:00 AM
The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones has concluded and in this conversation we chat with Supervising Sound Editor Tim Kimmel and Sound Designer Paula Fairfield about the Great War against the Army of the Dead, dragon battles and the war for the throne at King’s landing.
May 03, 2019 - 08:00 PM
We chat with Composer Nathan Whitehead (The Purge, Keanu) about his recent work on the PS4 exclusive video game, DAYS GONE from Sony Bend Studio. We discuss his move from East Tennessee to Los Angeles, early mentors including Supervising Sound Editor Dane Davis and Composer Steve Jablonsky and creating the sound of a post-apocalyptic wilderness setting.
April 15, 2019 - 07:15 PM
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