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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.