Films-TV

By Bryan Reesman ⋅ Published: 05/01/2002

Canadian film composer Mychael Danna has invented a highly diverse career for himself. Because most of the films Danna works on delve into intense...

By By Tim Moshansky ⋅ Published: 05/01/2002

Cinesonic was created by Bill Sheppard and Dean Giammarco, two guys who had a ton of work on their hands and nowhere to complete...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

A woman. Her preteen daughter. A giant old Manhattan brownstone. A rainy night. Three dangerous thugs want something valuable inside the house and will

By Sarah Benzuly ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

Glover Gill doesn't use Sonic Foundry's Acid or Coda Music Technology's Finale when he sits down (or stands, as sometimes is the case) to...

By Maureen Droney ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

For the Panic Room orchestra sessions at Sony Pictures' scoring stage, Paul Levy, owner of L.A.'s Advanced Audio, designed a Fibre Channel SAN (Storage

By David John Farinella ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

Remember the old saw, Jack-of-all-trades, master of none? Well, one spin through the reels of sound designer Tim Gedemer and composer Sophia Morizet proves

By By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

No corner of the music industry calls for a blend of composing chops, speed and production skills more than episodic television. Often working with...

By By Gary S. Hall ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

If you listen to the hype, interactive television is already here. It is, after all, now possible for viewers to vote on alternate endings,...

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

PDiddy is up on the Avid screen in one of the 11 video-editing suites at Goldcrest Post Production's facility on the far-west fringes of...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 03/01/2002

Every year, in the first week of February, the members of the Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences gather...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 03/01/2002

If you haven't seen Milos Forman's Amadeus for a number of years, it's easy to forget what a great film it is. In a...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 02/01/2002

It's a truism these days in all worlds audio: Those who produce are working in the highest resolution possible, while those who consume often...

By Maureen Droney ⋅ Published: 01/01/2002

Is it that now-classic 200-track train wreck in The Fugitive? The gun battle denouement of L.A. Confidential? Squeaking bats juxtaposed against a roaring

By David John Farinella ⋅ Published: 01/01/2002

Richard Wolf has some unconventional assistance while he composes music for the new WB Network animated television program Static Shock. When I get the

By Arlan Boll ⋅ Published: 01/01/2002

As a sound designer, I am always searching for new and interesting ways to re-create sounds, hoping to avoid that dissatisfying, heard-it-before feeling

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 12/01/2001

Few films in recent years have been as hotly anticipated as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first movie to be made from...

By Oliver Masciarotte ⋅ Published: 09/01/2001

It's autumn. A change of season is upon us, with the twilight of summer and the smell of frying power supplies in the air....

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 06/01/2001

One of the most highly anticipated films of the summer is Steven Spielberg's A.I., a project that has been shrouded in secrecy worthy of...

By Maureen Droney ⋅ Published: 06/01/2001

With a Memorial Day weekend debut, Disney's much-anticipated Pearl Harbor seems a shoe-in for success. An epic love story set against the high action

By David John Farinella ⋅ Published: 06/01/2001

Surprises are the last things mixer Lee Dichter wants to hear when he sits down to start working on a feature, yet that's just...

By David John Farinella ⋅ Published: 06/01/2001

It's the ultimate double-edged sword in the world of audio post-production for films the eye candy feature, as a remake, to boot. Yet, that's...

By David John Farinella ⋅ Published: 03/01/2001

He knew! Composer Russ Landau knew that Richard was taking home the million bucks last fall, and he didn't tell a soul. We had...

By BY PHILIP DE LANCIE ⋅ Published: 02/01/2001

Before the new Playstation2 game console was even on sale in the U.S., it was already clear that Sony had a hit on its...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 12/01/2000

33 W. Haley St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 965-3404; Fax (805) 966-9525 e-mail: sound[email protected] www.sound-design.comBig-city sound without big-city

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 08/01/2000

Composers heading to New York to find work in this town's audio post market are often cowed by the number of well-appointed project studios...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 07/01/2000

The Sony Pictures Entertainment lot was abuzz at the end of May with the controlled rush to bring Mel Gibson and the drama of...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 07/01/2000

For the film score, the producers were fortunate to secure the participation of two-time Oscar winner John Williams, whose many screen credits include

By William Sarokin ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

I'm currently mixing a new ABC dramatic series called Wonderland about Bellevue psychiatric hospital. As you can imagine, it's a madhouse. There's tons

By Kimberly Chun ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Concert composer Michael Schelle may have never written music for film, but after penning his most recent book, it's safe to say he knows...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

A Tim Burton movie would seem on the surface to be a sound editor's playpen-stylized imagery, dark characters, evocative settings. Whether it's the scissor

By Robyn Flans ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

The first time composer/engineer Steve Wood wrote for orchestra, he had to purchase a one-month pass to his chiropractor. No joke. His back went...

By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 10/01/1999

Because so many in our little industry gather in the Big Apple for the October AES convention, I decided it would be appropriate to...

By Eric Rudolph ⋅ Published: 10/01/1999

It doesn't take an insider to see that the New York post-production industry is booming. New shops are opening up, commercial mixing facilities are...

By Maureen Droney ⋅ Published: 08/01/1999

A master of the art in the classic sense, Leslie Ann Jones is, first and foremost, a truly musical engineer. Highly respected by her...

By Walter Murch ⋅ Published: 05/01/1999

In 1977, in a galaxy very close to home, Star Wars changed the way movies are made and released, ushering in the age of...

By Rick Clark ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Some of the greatest themes in film music-like "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago or "Also Sprach Zarathustra" from 2001: A Space Odyssey-have cemented key