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Heartworn Highways
During the early 1970s, while rock music was shooting for the arenas and pop was entering a seemingly committed phase of disposable one-hit wonders,...
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Facility Spotlight: Scorpio Sound
Tucked away in the hills above Hollywood on a winding street in Laurel Canyon is Scorpio Sound, a boutique music and sound design shop...
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Roy Orbison’s Greatest Hits
The late engineer/producer/rock 'n' roll pioneer Sam Phillips said, There's music in voice. If you feel it and it's a part of your spirituality,...
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Jim Roberts’ Brandon Productions
Jim Roberts was one of the lucky dot-commers: His Internet company was bought out before the big Web crash in the late 1990s. However,...
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Yuki Kajiura
Captivated by music from around the globe, Japanese composer Yuki Kajiura absorbs it all and unleashes it in her work for movies, musicals, video...
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Live Orchestra for The Hobbit
I once heard Buzz Burroughs, director of audio at Sony Computer Entertainment and game audio guru, jokingly say, “The only post-production in video games...
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Evil Twin Produces Radiohead Spots
Los Angeles-based Evil Twin Productions (www.eviltwinproductions.com) recently finished up TV and radio spots for Radiohead's latest release, Hail to the Thief.
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‘Sex and the City’
TV can be a sensual experience, and very few shows appeal to the eyes — and ears — more than HBO's Sex and the...
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Out of the Shadows of Motown
You know the hits, now read the book. You've read the book, now listen to the tapes. You've listened to the tapes, now watch...
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Tom Dowd & The Language of Music
NEW DOCUMENTARY REFLECTS PRODUCER'S LIFE At the grand opening of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, revelers got one of...
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The Matrix Reloaded
An interview with the Academy Award winning audio editors about recording the next installment of The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded. Recording and mixing techniques...
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Tapping Into ”A Mighty Wind”
A Mighty Wind won't save the music industry, but it will definitely provide it with some much-needed laughs.
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From the Creative Sound Files
Senior audio engineer Holly McEllroy (pictured) and Creative Sound Studios (Orefield, Pa.) owner Helena Schwoyer have been doing audio post for Forensic
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And the Award Goes to
Music fans will remember the 45th annual Grammy Awards as the one where jazzy chanteuse Norah Jones stole the show, beating out such veterans...
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When Audio Met Video
NEW POST-PRODUCTION FACILITY OPENS IN L.A. Award-winning video editor David Troy (co-founder/creative director of Synchroneon Digital Pictures) and Glen
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N*Sync on DVD
As if the N*Sync calendar wasn't full enough - four albums in five years, a run of stadium tours and appearances at the Olympics,...
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The Chieftains and Friends
Last fall, a stellar cast of country and bluegrass artists joined the Grammy Award-winning Celtic group to perform songs from Down the Old Plank...
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Lisa Gerrard: The Color of Sound
I think that, sometimes, the most simple tune can unlock so much more than anything else in picture, just in the right spot, declares...
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Around the World With Stomp
In the minds of its creators - English-men Luke Cresswell and Stephen McNicholas - Stomp is a malleable idea about rhythm as language, a...
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The Chamber of Secrets
In the year since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was released, it has gone on to become the second highest-grossing film of all...
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The Two Towers
Two down, one to go. Director Peter Jackson's take on The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a spectacularly ambitious undertaking: three films, each...
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Scoring Two Towers With A/V SAN
Grammy Award-winning music engineer David Gleeson, scoring engineer John Kurlander and systems expert Mark Wilsher put the finishing touches on Howard
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Shift_Record
Finally, a commercial that audiophiles can get behind. In the new Nissan Altima commercial, DJs Ming+FS (www.mingandfs.com) portray an experimental production
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Blue Men in Vegas
Blue Man Group and Virgin Entertainment Group have designed and created a custom DVD booth that showcases the 5.1 mix of their Grammy-nominated debut
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Star Trek: Nemesis
Phenomenon, franchise, lifestyle call it what you like. The Star Trek television series and roster of movies not to mention books, the Las Vegas...
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Avast and Away!
Disney magic still manages to bring out the kid in everybody, including the veteran creative and production personnel for the animated feature Treasure
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GANGS of New YORK
Director Martin Scorsese is back on New York City's Mean Streets. No, it's not Little Italy, where much of the action in his critically...
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ZOMBIE, CORPSES AND ADR, OH MY!
Widget Post (Culver City, Calif.) recently finished up a comprehensive sound package for Rob Zombie's gothic horror film, House of 1000 Corpses, in its
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NMT ADDS TO ITS FLEET
COMPANY TO MANAGE TWO TRUCKS National Mobile Television president Jerry Gepner announced that NMT and Location Solutions by Keslow Television have entered
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Paramount Scoring Stage M
Despite an increasing number of productions going out of state and abroad, Southern California is still a filmmaking hub. When it comes to scoring,...
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SOUNDS OF NATURE 24/7
Last month, the CBC began to broadcast continuous natural soundscape recordings on its Galaxie pay-audio service channels. Eighteen of these recordings
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Facility Spotlight: Bustin’ Grooves at HUM
It's buzzing (okay, make that ) like a beehive at the warehouse-style office and studio space of HUM Music+Sound Design and its satellite companies,...
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9/11: In Memoriam
Premiered on May 26, 2002, the HBO documentary In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01 recounts the events of that extraordinary day by intercutting interview
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Crime Scene Audio
Clean, clear audio: It's central to the success of CBS' hit series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Without clear audio, the complex CSI plot line...
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Facility Spotlight: Wave Group
Since Wave Group opened its Santa Clara, Calif., location in 1996, the company has morphed into a jack-of-all-trades for audio client services, handling
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Foley Goes to Sea
The sonar ping of a submarine is something of a staple in the annals of film sound, one that any filmgoer can summon on...
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Men In Black 2
Fourth of July weekend. It's hot dogs and parades, flags and fireworks, and more often than not in recent years, the opening of a...
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Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo supervising sound editor Michael Wilhoit seems like a pretty normal guy. Still, you have to figure that to work on this kind...
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Minority Report
After working on five Steven Spielberg films, three of which have garnered Academy Awards for sound effects editing, sound designer Gary Rydstrom and
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BLACK HAWK DOWN AMONG MPSE WINNERS
The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE; www.mpse.org) held its 49th Annual Golden Reel Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in sound and music editorial