SoundWorks Collection
270 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 89 ratingsThe goal for the SoundWorks Collection is simple; we are dedicated to profiling the greatest and upcoming sound minds from around the world and highlight their contributions. We take you behind the scenes and straight to the dub stage for a look into audio post-production for feature films, video game sound design, and original soundtrack composition.
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The Sound and Visual Effects of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens" at NAB 2016
April 21, 2016 21:30 - 49 minutes - 90.2 MBModerated by Bryan Bishop, Senior Reporter of The Verge and featuring Matt Wood, Supervising Sound Editor, Skywalker SoundJames Clyne, Visual Effects Art Director, Industrial Light & Magic and Pat Tubach, Visual Effects Supervisor, Industrial Light & Magic. Produced in partnership with the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) With a procession of new and classic sounds and more than 2100 visual effects shots, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is an epic accomplishment. The film contains a plet...
Virtual Reality Audio Panel at NAB 2016
April 21, 2016 21:21 - 56 minutes - 104 MBModerated by Jacqueline Bosnjak, CEO & Partner, Q Department | Mach1 and featuring Martin Walsh, Vice President, R&D, DTS, Inc., Nicolas Tsingos, Director of E-media Technology, Dolby Laboratories, Jean-Pascal Beaudoin, President and Lead Creative Sound Director, Headspace Studio, Jyri Huopaniemi, Head of Formats and Platforms, Digital Media Business Unit, Nokia Technology and Tim Gedemer, President, CEO of Source Sound, Inc. We can only see what is in front of us, but we hear and can ident...
Sennheiser - AMBEO VR Audio at NAB 2016
April 21, 2016 21:00 - 104 MBIn this exclusive interview we talk with Brian Glasscock and Simon Beasley from Sennheiser to discuss the AMBEO microphone and Sennheiser’s focus on 3D immersive audio. The VR microphone will be a staple tool in any live action VR production and will launch in the third quarter of 2016, followed in 2017 by a bundle with the same mic and a software plug-in for post-production of VR content.
"Deadpool": Leveraging Technology to Create a Stunning Superhero Film at NAB 2016
April 21, 2016 20:30 - 51 minutes - 95.1 MBModerated by Vashi Nedomansky, Post-Production Workflow and Editorial Consultant, “Deadpool” and featuring Joan Bierman, Post Supervisor, “Deadpool”, Jonathan Rothbart, VFX Supervisor, “Deadpool” and Matt Carson, First Assistant Editor, “Deadpool”. The recently released 20th Century Fox blockbuster film "Deadpool" crushed numerous opening box office records, with its staggering $132.7 million Friday-to-Sunday debut. Based on the Marvel comic character by the same name and starring Ryan Reyn...
Pullstring - Computer Conversations with Characters
April 13, 2016 17:05 - 39 minutes - 72 MBIn this exclusive SoundWorks Collection interview we talk with the sound team at PullString, an entertainment and technology company that combines art and science to enable computer conversation with characters. We discuss their conversational entertainment products including Humani: Jessie’s Story, available on Facebook Messenger, Talking Barbie, and ToyTalk family entertainment apps The Winston Show, SpeakaZoo, SpeakaLegend, and SpeakOrTreat.
The Sound of 10 Cloverfield Lane
April 12, 2016 21:24 - 45 minutes - 84 MBIn this exclusive SoundWorks Collection interview we talk with the sound team of Director Dan Trachtenberg's film, 10 Cloverfield Lane including Supervising Sound Editor Robert Stambler, effects sound re-recording mixer Will Files and dialogue and music sound re-recording mixer Lindsey Alvarez. In our discussion we explore key sound scenes including the opening title sequence, alien creature vocals and ship by’s and how the sound and music team achieved a sense of confinement for the films ...
The Sound of Batman vs Superman with Scott Hecker
April 01, 2016 19:51 - 45 minutes - 82.7 MBIn this exclusive SoundWorks Collection interview we talk with Supervising Sound Editor Scott Hecker about his work on Director Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Scott breaks down how the sound team created new sounds for the Batmobile, Batwing, Wonder Women, Aquaman, Flash, Doomsday, and Superman.
The Sound of The Revenant with Lon Bender and Martin Hernandez
February 20, 2016 03:02 - 1 hour - 118 MBMartin Hernandez and Lon Bender. In this two-part podcast, we catch up with Academy Award nominees Lon Bender and Martin Hernandez to discuss their BAFTA-winning work on The Revenant. Lon talks about recording Foley in Colorado on real snow (with horses!) and gives advice to young sound artists. Martin talks about managing directors’ anxiety, and describes getting his start doing radio shows with director Alejandro Inarritu in Mexico when they were college classmates.
The Sound of Sicario with Alan Murray
February 20, 2016 03:01 - 20 minutes - 37 MBAlan Murray, two-time Academy Award-winner nominated this year for Sicario, discusses using sound to tell the audience that things may not be quite right, how low-end can heighten tension, and his remarkable 40 year collaboration with Clint Eastwood.
The Sound of Mad Max Fury Road with Mark Mangini and Dave White
February 20, 2016 03:01 - 39 minutes - 72 MBMark Mangini and David White, nominated this year for Mad Max: Fury Road, talk about the challenges of managing such an epic production, how they used ADR to achieve emotional intimacy, the use of silence in chaos, and how director George Miller (who trained as a doctor) can cure common maladies.
The Sound of The Martian with Re-recording Mixer Paul Massey
December 28, 2015 07:42 - 28 minutes - 65.1 MBIn this exclusive SoundWorks Collection interview we talk with music and dialogue Sound Re-recording Mixer Paul Massey about his work on Director Ridley Scott's The Martian. The final mix was completed at Twickenham Studios in London and music was recorded and mixed by Peter Cobbin at Abbey Road Studios for Composer Harry Gregson-Williams. Paul also discusses working with editor Pietro Scalia and sound designer/supervising sound editor Oliver Tarney to craft the multiple futz and radio inst...
Composer Jack Wall - Call of Duty: Black Ops III
November 29, 2015 06:48 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBThis week we talk with Composer Jack Wall about his work on the critically acclaimed Call of Duty: Black Ops III video game. Jack Wall’s distinguished musical career includes composing for film, television, video games and concerts as well as his early years producing and engineering albums for recording artists. Renowned for his rich, cinematic scores for popular franchises such as Call of Duty, Mass Effect, Myst, Splinter Cell and Jade Empire, Wall’s repertoire spans a diverse range of mu...
The Music of The Good Dinosaur with Composers Mychael and Jeff Danna
November 25, 2015 15:40 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBIn this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile Jon Burlingame talks with Composers Mychael and Jeff Danna about their recent work on the Pixar film The Good Dinosaur. In this enchanting computer-animated fantasy set in a world where dinosaurs never became extinct, an amiable young Apatosaurus named Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) befriends a prehistoric human child (voiced by Jack Bright) while he attempts to reunite with his dinosaur family. Arlo lost his father in a storm and was sw...
Composer David Lang on the film YOUTH
November 17, 2015 01:25 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBComposer David Lang discusses his collaboration with Director Paolo Sorrentino crafting the music for his recent film YOUTH. Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for...
The Music of Composer Carter Burwell
November 16, 2015 13:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBIn this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile Jon Burlingame talks with Composer Carter Burwell about his work on the film: Carol, Mr. Holmes, Anomalisa, Legend and Hail, Caesar! Carter Burwell has composed the music for more than 80 feature films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Rob Roy, Fargo, The Spanish Prisoner, Gods and Monsters, Velvet Goldmine, The General’s Daughter, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich, O Brother, ...
Geoffrey Patterson and the Sound Mixer of Beasts of No Nation
November 02, 2015 22:59 - 38 minutes - 88.3 MBThis week we talk with sound mixer Geoffrey Patterson who worked with Director Cary Fukunaga on his most recent film Beasts of No Nation which is currently available on Netflix. Geoffrey's additional film and tv credits include True Detectives, House of Lies, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Deadwood, The X Files movie, Twister, and The Usual Suspects.
Geoffrey Patterson - Sound Mixer of "Beasts of No Nation"
November 02, 2015 22:59 - 38 minutes - 88.3 MBThis week we talk with sound mixer Geoffrey Patterson who worked with Director Cary Fukunaga on his most recent film "Beasts of No Nation" which is currently available on Netflix. Geoffrey's additional film and tv credits include True Detectives, House of Lies, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Deadwood, The X Files movie, Twister, and The Usual Suspects.
Craig Henighan and Will Files for Pacific Standard Sound
October 20, 2015 16:55 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBSupervising Sound Editors, Re-recording Mixers, Sound Designers Craig Henighan and Will Files have recently joined forces to form Pacific Standard Sound to offer a wider range of audio services for their already impressive roster of film directors and clients including JJ Abrahams, Darren Aronofsky, Matt Reeves, Jeff Nichols, Ben Stiller and Shawn Levy.
Craig Henighan and Will Files - Pacific Standard Sound
October 20, 2015 16:55 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBSupervising Sound Editors, Re-recording Mixers, Sound Designers Craig Henighan and Will Files have recently joined forces to form Pacific Standard Sound to offer a wider range of audio services for their already impressive roster of film directors and clients including JJ Abrahams, Darren Aronofsky, Matt Reeves, Jeff Nichols, Ben Stiller and Shawn Levy.
Daniel Colman - Sound for Television
September 29, 2015 20:03 - 37 minutes - 34 MBIn this episode we talk with Emmy award-winning sound designer Daniel Colman about his work on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, and MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD. Daniel shares his thoughts on why musicians make the best sound designers, the challenges of living within the rules of television’s dynamic range, and how the signature sound of the space battles in GALACTICA was developed.
Gwen Yates Whittle - Dialog Editing & ADR
September 22, 2015 03:25 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBEditing dialog and working with the original recordings from the set is one of the most under-appreciated arts in cinema sound. In this episode of “Conversations with Sound Artists,” two-time Academy Award nominee Gwen Yates Whittle talks with the Dolby Institute’s Glenn Kiser about why George Lucas thinks dialog editing is one of the most important parts of the process, why she loves working on low-budget independent films (“They talk more,”), and why David Fincher and Meryl Streep love doin...
Composer Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) - The Music of Black Mass
September 19, 2015 21:29 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBIn this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile Jon Burlingame talks with Composer Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) about his work on the film Black Mass. Three-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp (“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Finding Neverland,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films) stars as notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in the drama “Black Mass,” directed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”). The film also stars Joel Edgerton (“The Great Gatsby,” “Zero Dark Thirty”)...
Anna Behlmer - The Art of Sound Mixing
September 15, 2015 19:01 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBThe final stage of any collaborative process requires a delicate balance between artistry and decisiveness. The sound mixer works closely with the director to make sure that every sound is in its right place and that the story is always front and center. In this episode, 10-time Academy Award nominee Anna Behlmer talks about being one of the first female mixers in the movie business, strategies for handling a nervous director, and why you will always find colored Sharpie pens on a mixing stage.
Rob Krekel & Phillip Kovats of Naughty Dog Studios - Video Game Sound Design
August 31, 2015 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBGame soundtracks have come a long way since their earliest 8-bit days. In this episode of “Conversations with Sound Artists,” Rob Krekel and Phillip Kovats of Naughty Dog Studios talk about the challenges of building player-controlled vehicles and physics-driven sounds for their upcoming game release UNCHARTED 4, how their award-winning game THE LAST OF US changed their approach to sound design, what it means to mix a game when each sound may have 50-60 points of metadata to describe how it c...
Randy Thom - Writing for Sound
August 25, 2015 06:37 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBSkywalker Sound’s Director of Sound Design Randy Thom discusses with Dolby Institute’s Glenn Kiser how writers and directors can use sound as a tool to tell their stories, the importance of APOCALYPSE NOW to modern sound design, his work with Robert Zemeckis to maroon Tom Hanks on an island in CAST AWAY with no music or wildlife sounds, and what’s wrong with the current state of sound for animated films. About "Conversations with Sound Artists" Podcast: Sound is an art and a craft that man...
Composer Bear McCreary on Outlander
August 14, 2015 06:36 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBThis week we talk with Composer Bear McCreary about his work on the first season of the Starz show Outlander, the epic new series from Ronald D. Moore based on Diana Gabaldon’s epic novels.
Matt Hines - Product Manager, Post Production at iZotope
August 06, 2015 03:43 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBThis week we talk with Matt Hines who is a Product Manager for Post Production at iZotope. iZotope makes innovative products that inspire and enable people to be creative. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iZotope has spent over a decade developing award-winning products and audio technologies for professionals and hobbyists alike. Used by millions of people in over 50 countries, iZotope products are a core component of GRAMMY-winning music studios, Oscar and Emmy-winning film and TV post ...
2015 Sundance Institute Music & Sound Design Lab
August 03, 2015 00:52 - 36 minutes - 82.6 MBIn this exclusive SoundWorks Collection video we talk with Tabitha Jackson, Director of the Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program, Randy Thom, Director of Sound Design at Skywalker Sound and Composer and Sundance Creative Advisors Todd Boekelheide and Miriam Cutler. This will be the third year the Music and Sound Design Labs take place at the Skywalker Ranch in northern California. The Labs are part of 24 residential labs the Institute hosts annually to discover and foster the talen...
Music Supervisor Randall Poster
July 31, 2015 18:46 - 33 minutes - 31 MBThis week we spoke with New York based Music Supervisor Randall Poster. His career started working on the 1995 breakout film "Kids" soon followed by Director Wes Anderson indie film "Bottle Rocket". Randall has since collaborated with many talented Directors including Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater, David Fincher and many more.
The Sound of Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
July 23, 2015 19:25 - 57 minutes - 104 MBIn this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile we talk with Director Brett Morgen and his sound team including sound designer and re-recording mixer Cameron Frankly and sound and music editor Jon Michaels about their work on the documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck which is moderated by Michael Coleman from SoundWorks Collection. Kurt Cobain, legendary lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of Nirvana, “the flagship band of Generation X,” remains an object of reverence and fascina...
Re-recording Mixer Greg Russell
July 23, 2015 19:07 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBThis week we met up with Re-recording Mixer Greg Russell who has mixed more than 195 feature films and has been nominated for 16 Academy Awards™, 11 Cinema Audio Society awards, two BAFTA and two Emmys, with one Emmy win. Greg is a long time collaborator with Director Michael Bay and has worked on movies such as Skyfall, Spider-man, Spider-man 2, and The Usual Suspects. He's worked on the entire Transformers series.
Playstation Music Group
July 16, 2015 22:49 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBThis week with spoke with the Playstation Music Group including Senior Music Manager Jonathan Mayer, Music Producer Matt Levin, and Senior Music Editor Scott Hanau about their working supporting various video game titles including God of War, Uncharted, The Order, The Last of Us and InFAMOUS.
Composer Bryan Lee Brown
June 01, 2015 17:54 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBThis week we spoke with composer Bryan Lee Brown about his recent collaboration on HBO’s show SONIC HIGHWAYS. SONIC HIGHWAYS which is directed by Dave Grohl is a 8-episode, 8-city look at the recording of the Foo Fighter’s 8th album. The series taps into the music heritage and cultural fabric of eight cities: Chicago, Austin, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Washington D.C and New York. Writing music for this documentary was personal for Brown who is a long time friend of direc...
Engineer/Producer Jay Messina
May 15, 2015 21:15 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBThis week we spoke with our good friend Jay Messina who is a world-class engineer/producer based in New York city and has worked on such classic albums by Aerosmith, Kiss, Miles Davis, Supertramp, Patti Smith, Slash, Yoko Ono, and Cheap Trick, to name a few. we met up with Jay in his upper west side home to talk about his early beginnings working at A&R Studios and the Record Plant where he served as chief engineer for 15 years. Jay was consistently busy recording albums and stayed with Rec...
House of Cards - Beau Willimon & Composer Jeff Beal
May 08, 2015 04:22 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBThis week we spoke with show-runner and writer Beau Willimon and Composer Jeff Beal about their collaboration on the hit Netflix show House of Cards. Set in present-day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a Democrat from South Carolina's 5th congressional district and House Majority Whip who, after being passed over for appointment as Secretary of State, initiates an elaborate plan to get himself into a position of greater power, aided by his wif...
Composer Peter McConnell
May 05, 2015 00:58 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBComposer Peter McConnell has composed award-winning scores for a diverse range of video games including Broken Age, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, the Sly Cooper series, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Psychonauts, Brutal Legend and Grim Fandango. Before working independently, Peter composed in-house at LucasArts contributing to beloved franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Monkey Island. We also discussed one of the most acclaimed adventure game...
Christopher Willitis
April 09, 2015 17:25 - 27 minutes - 51.2 MBThis week we spoke with Christopher Willitis, who is a bay are based electronic musician, teacher, composer, producer, photographer, filmmaker and guitar pioneer. His most recent album,Opening, was released on Ghostly International in September 2014. Chris and a group of artists, coders, designers, musicians, thinkers, engineers, geeks, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs are opening a new intimate performance space housed within The Midway creative complex in San Francisco called Envelop., ...
Michael Raphael and Rudy Trubbit - Lionel Train Recording
April 07, 2015 00:46 - 33 minutes - 60.6 MBThis week we spoke with sound recordist Michael Raphael from Rabbit Ears Audio and Rudy Trubbit who is the Director of Audio for Lionel Trains. Rudy and Michael worked together on sourcing a new group of steam whistles for Lionel's new products. They traveled to North Carolina and recorded over 15 steam whistles which are incredibly challenging sounds to record because of the high amount of SPL, and lionel’s specific needs. Although steam whistles emerged in the mid-19th century as a warni...
Andy Summers - The Police Guitarist
March 27, 2015 20:41 - 15 minutes - 27.6 MBThis week we talk with Grammy Award® winning guitarist Andy Summers from The Police about his music documentary based on the memoir One Train Later, Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police tells of the rise of The Police. During the band’s phenomenal rise and its dissolution at the height of their popularity in the mid-80s, Summers captured history with his candid photographs. Utilizing rare archival footage and insights from the guitarist’s side of the stage, Can't Stand Losing You: ...
Composer Mac Quayle
March 26, 2015 20:39 - 33 minutes - 60.5 MBThis week we spoke with Composer Mac Quayle. Mac has written music for over 30 films and television shows and accumulated a long list of credits as a music producer, dance remixer and multi-instrumentalist. As a composer his music was most recently heard in the hit FX series American Horror Story: Freak Show as well as in a diverse list of feature films and documentaries including Autism in Love which premieres at this years Tribeca Film Festival and is featured in this interview. Some of h...
Production Sound Mixer Stephen Tibbo
March 25, 2015 17:14 - 42 minutes - 77.4 MBThis week we spoke with production sound mixer and re-recording mixer Stephen Tibbo. Stephen is the winner of two Emmy Awards and three CAS awards for "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing." through his association with the hit television series Modern Family. Stephen is also an accomplished sound re-recording mixer who has worked on dozens of webisodes, short and independent films such as The Quest, Fear Clinic, Contracted and many others. We discussed what it has been like to work ...
Composer Penka Kouneva
March 18, 2015 06:47 - 25 minutes - 46.9 MBThis week we spoke with Composer Penka Kouneva at this years Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Penka started her career working alongside Composer Steve Jablonsky, where she composed additional score for game titles such including Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Penka's music, which has been called "haunting and passionate," is a blend of her Eastern European heritage, classical training and media scoring. Penka has also worked as an or...
Finishing Move Inc.
February 27, 2015 02:05 - 51 minutes - 95.1 MBThis week we spoke with Finishing Move Inc. who is Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White, two friends and collaborators who recently worked on some incredible video game music projects including Halo: Master Chief Collection for Microsoft, Massive Chalice for Double Fine games, Borderlands 1 and 2, and the Assassin Creed series. We talk about the incredible success they have had since forming their company just over two years ago and how they continue to navigate the task of managing large budge...
Composer Will Bates - Fall on your Sword
February 16, 2015 00:37 - 33 minutes - 61 MBThis week we spoke with Composer and multi instrumentalist Will Bates, who also runs Fall On Your Sword (FOYS) Will's commercial music production company based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Alongside the success of Will’s commercial work he has also collaborated with numerous film directors including Alex Gibney on such films as We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Mike Cahill's Another Earth and I-orgins. We had a fantastic talk abou...
Composer Jason Graves
February 12, 2015 00:37 - 39 minutes - 73.1 MBThis week we spoke with Academy Award-winning (BAFTA) composer Jason Graves who has brought his passion for music to such game titles as THE ORDER: 1886, EVOLVE, TOMB RAIDER and DEAD SPACE. We discuss how his diverse musical background as a classically-trained composer, drummer, keyboardist, guitarist and world percussionist allow him to compose many different genres of music. Jason recently finished work on THE ORDER: 1886 (SONY), EVOLVE (2k GAMES) and we talk about how he manages the lon...
The Formosa Group
February 03, 2015 00:26 - 45 minutes - 83.9 MBThis week we had the pleasure to speak with the executive and creative team behind the recently formed post-production sound company Formosa Group. Joining me in this roundtable discussion include President and COO, Bob Rosenthal, SVP Business Development & Operations Matt Dubin and a fantastic mixture of re-recording mixers, sound designers, and editors including Mark Mangini, Julian Slater, Greg Hedgepath, and Todd Toon.
The Sound of Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
January 26, 2015 00:29 - 25 minutes - 46.9 MBThis week we spoke with re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman who worked on Director Alex Gibney's music bio doc Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown. Pioneering the journey from rhythm and blues to funk, James Brown forever changed the face of American music. Mr. Dynamite follows the journey of Brown as he escaped his impoverished Southern roots to become the biggest name in soul music, and one of the most important music talents of the 20th Century.
Paul Cichocki - Pixar Post Production Supervisor
January 15, 2015 01:04 - 26 minutes - 48.7 MBThis week we spoke with Post Production Supervisor Paul Cichocki at Pixar Animation Studio. Paul joined Pixar in 1999 during the production of toy story 2 and has supervised the post production on all feature and short films since then. He is responsible for many of the efforts that take place outside of the studio including actor recording sessions, music composition and recording, international translations and theatrical quality control. Cichocki also works very closely with the Skywalke...
The Sound of The Imitation Game
January 06, 2015 01:03 - 33 minutes - 60.5 MBThis week we spoke with John Midgley who is the production sound mixer on the film The Imitation Game Directed by Morten Tyldum. The Imitation Game stars Benedict Cumberbatch who portrays Alan Turing who is a British mathematician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist who was a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, which helped the Allies win the Second World War. The film was shot over 9 weeks in various locations around England and we discuss the wide range of gear...
The Sound of Boyhood
December 24, 2014 00:56 - 35 minutes - 65.3 MBThis week we spoke with the sound team behind Director Richard Linklater’s American coming-of-age drama BOYHOOD. For this interview I spoke with sound re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor Tom Hammond, sound recordist Ethan Andrus, sound mixer Ben Lowry, and sound recordist Ben Lazard about the technical and creative challenges of following a production which was shot over 12-years.