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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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Hey, Santa, Is the Beard Real?
Well, another year draws to a close. We've looked at interesting technologies and summoned enough pluck to discuss some pretty hairy subjects. This month,
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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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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...