Culver City, CA (August 27, 2026)—The 13th annual Mix Presents Sound for Film & Television event, featuring an inside track on The Sound of Horror, will open with a special Keynote Conversation titled “Fear, Tension and the Psychology of Sound,” as Mix sits down with two of the best in the business: Award-winning composer, producer and rock ‘n’ roll musician Tyler Bates and double Oscar-winning supervising sound editor Karen Baker Landers.
The Keynote Conversation will take place on Saturday, September 26, as the opening act in the all-day event, held in the world-renowned sound editing and re-recording facilities of Host Partner Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, Calif. Other presentations in the popular Mix Panel Series include “World-Building for Spider-Man: The Marriage of Sound FX & Foley” and “The Sound of Horror.”
“Psychologial thrillers, supernatural dramas, horror films—they are a staple of the American moviegoing experience, and they’ve been huge at the box office this year,” says Tom Kenny, co-editor of Mix. “People like to see them in theaters, and part of that is so that they can experience big, scary sounds as they are meant to be heard. Tyler and Karen—representing music and sound effects—are two of the best in the world at creating tension, thrills and shocks through the use of sound. This should be a fun discussion.”
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Tyler Bates is an award-winning American composer, producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose distinctive fusion of orchestral composition, electronics and rock has helped define the sound of contemporary cinema and television. With a career spanning more than three decades, Bates has collaborated with filmmakers including Ti West, Zack Snyder, James Gunn, Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, Scott Derrickson, Stephen Kay, and Genndy Tartakovsky, and with artists including Marilyn Manson, Jerry Cantrell, Evanescence, Bush, In This Moment, Mastodon and GUNSHIP.
Karen Baker Landers has a career spanning over three decades and more than 120 films, working with worked with directors such as Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Michael Bay, Taylor Hackford, Sam Mendes, Anne Fletcher and Eli Roth on films such as Braveheart, Gladiator, Ray, Last of the Mohicans, Black Hawk Down, Seabiscuit, the original Bourne Trilogy, and Skyfall. Landers has won dozens of international awards, including two Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards.
In addition to the Mix Panel Series, the event includes a full slate of sponsor demos and technology presentations from some of the audio industry’s leading manufacturers, as well as panels featuring the sound teams from some of this year’s top television, streaming and feature film projects.
The day concludes with the popular Sound Reel Showcase, a special screening in the Cary Grant Theater featuring 10-minute “reels,” played back in Dolby Atmos, from some of this year’s best-sounding films.
For registration and program information, please visit Mix Presents Sound for Film & Television.
For sponsorship information, please contact Mix publisher Janis Crowley.
