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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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Move Over FM!: XM Radio Goes Satellite Live
Music aficionados who fancy MTV Unplugged, VH1 Storytellers and the like would be drooling if they saw or, to be more precise, heard the...
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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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All Right Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready For My Close-Up
This month's issue is devoted to sound tagging along with picture, and, glory hallelujah, we audio folks finally come out ahead! Pardon my exuberance
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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
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Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Other films may have bigger budgets, bigger stars. They may even have bigger opening weekends. But no film series has gripped the imagination of...
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Composer Spotlight: Mychael Danna, Globe-Trotting Visionary
Canadian film composer Mychael Danna has invented a highly diverse career for himself. Because most of the films Danna works on delve into intense...
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DVD FOUNDERS PRESENT BLU-RAY DISC
Nine leading companies announced that they have jointly established the basic specs for a next-generation, large-capacity, optical-disc video-recording
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Facility Spotlight: Cinesonic Vancouver, British Columbia
Cinesonic was created by Bill Sheppard and Dean Giammarco, two guys who had a ton of work on their hands and nowhere to complete...
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Trapped in the Panic Room
A woman. Her preteen daughter. A giant old Manhattan brownstone. A rainy night. Three dangerous thugs want something valuable inside the house and will
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Composer Glover Gill
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...
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MEANWHILE, ON THE SCORING STAGE
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
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Spank! Adds West Coast Design
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
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Small Screen, Big Music
No corner of the music industry calls for a blend of composing chops, speed and production skills more than episodic television. Often working with...
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Interactive Television
If you listen to the hype, interactive television is already here. It is, after all, now possible for viewers to vote on alternate endings,...
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Goldcrest Post Expands New York Facility
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...
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The Bake-Off
Every year, in the first week of February, the members of the Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences gather...
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Amadeus: The Director’s Cut
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...
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BMW Films
In the past couple of years, we've gone from surging dotcoms to disappearing dotbombs, and there has never been more uncertainty and confusion about...
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The Shipping News
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...
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ULTIMATE SOUND MACHINE
FAST DRIVING IN SURROUND There's nothing like driving in your new 2002 BMW 7 Series car on a winding road through some beautiful, mountainous...
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Facility Spotlight: SoundStorm, Last of the Red Hot Independents
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
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Composer Spotlight: Richard Wolf
Richard Wolf has some unconventional assistance while he composes music for the new WB Network animated television program Static Shock. When I get the
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Surreal Sound, Toy Cameras
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
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
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...
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Taking Storage to the Next Step
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....
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Sound Secrets of A.I.
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...
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Pearl Harbor
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
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Rollerball
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...
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SCORING TO SURVIVE
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...
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Sound for Playstation2
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...