Archive of the Sound for Picture Category

Sonic Branding Leader Helps CNN Tell the Stories Behind History

(DALLAS, TX) Stephen Arnold Music, the internationally acclaimed music production company serving the creative and broadcast communities worldwide, has created moving and inspirational music for CNN’s coverage of “9/11- Ten Years Later.” The news network will use the music in a range of shows and promotions during the week leading up to the commemoration, and a secondary, more sparse arrangement will play behind CNN’s live coverage of the unveiling of the 9/11 Memorial on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011.

“Being entrusted with this tremendous responsibility is an honor and a thrill for us,” says Stephen Arnold, president of the Dallas-based company. “It reminds us of why we became musicians in the first place – music’s power to heal, to translate and elicit emotions, and to draw us together as humans.”

In the creative process with more

World-class brass instrument is pure Hollywood magic for all

Hollywood, CA (August 30, 2011) – EASTWEST, the industry leader in virtual software instruments, is now shipping both the Diamond and Gold Editions of Hollywood Brass, a massive virtual instrument that features unprecedented sound quality and the brand new PLAY 3 playback engine for the very latest in performance and control. Based on the flagship Diamond Edition, Hollywood Brass Gold Edition is designed to bring the best professional scoring tools within the reach of any composer.

The second installment in the Hollywood series, Hollywood Brass is an epic achievement, once again combining the talents of top producers Doug Rogers, Nick Phoenix, and Thomas Bergersen, and engineered by award-winning Hollywood veteran Shawn Murphy.

Recorded in place at EastWest Studio 1, widely regarded as the “best brass recording room in more

Internationally renowned artist, architect and designer, Ron Arad, has invited his favourite artists, musicians and friends to create unique works for a 360 degree video projection installation at the Roundhouse, London. Bloomberg are the primary sponsor.

Blitz Communications Ltd has been commissioned to provide the technology to bring Ron’s design concept to fruition. The installation takes the form of a curtain made from 5,600 silicon rods, 8.1m high, creating an 18m diameter 360 degree canvas for film, live performance and audience interaction.

Blitz installed twelve Barco RLM W8 projectors which are mounted on the truss ring above the silicon rod curtain. Each of these projects a portrait image 8.1m high by 5m wide, overlapped to produce a seamless 360 degree display at 13,520 by 1,920 pixels. Media delivery and control is implemented using twelve Dataton WATCHOUT display PCs networked to a Watchout control server. Whilst the artist’s more

Chicago— Sonixphere, a globally-connected resource for music and sound, invites friends and colleagues in the advertising, post and post production industry to join them this Sunday, August 28, for their inaugural “Sons of Advertising Motorcycle Run” in support of the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit organization which offers assistance to the brave men and women who become injured while protecting our country.
The event begins at 8:30 a.m. at Sonixphere’s offices at 445 East Ohio, Chicago. The group will ride to New Lenox, IL and join other riders at the Municipal Center for a hearty hog-riders’ pancake breakfast, then take a scenic and police-escorted ride to Elwood for a music and beer event featuring three local bands. For a donation of $15, participants get to groove together on their “hogs,” enjoy a few flapjacks, then have a brew and hear more

Re-Recording Mixer Craig Mann and Supervising Sound Editor Joe Dzuban create an exhilarating soundtrack for a new documentary on the hip hop pioneering band A Tribe Called Quest.

HOLLYWOOD –Re-recording mixer Craig Mann recently teamed with Supervising Sound Editor Joe Dzuban at Todd-AO to complete the soundtrack for the new documentary Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, an electrifying portrait of one of the most influential bands in the history of hip hop. The film follows band members Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi from their childhood days in Queens, New York, through their rise to stardom, and ultimate break up in the late 90’s. Directed by Michael Rapaport and produced by Rival Pictures, Beats Rhymes & Life is currently in limited release from Sony Pictures Classics. more

Tony Visconti On Recording Legends – Skip Lievsay On Mixing Blockbuster Films

NEW YORK: “Designed to provide authoritative insights into significant technical issues, the Master Class Program represents a high point of every AES Convention,” remarked 131st Chair Jim Anderson. “Back for a return engagement as AES Convention Master Class Chair, Alan Silverman has once again developed a compelling group of extraordinarily accomplished audio industry icons.” Poised to draw thousands of audio professionals from around the world, this year’s event is set for October 20-23 at New York’s Javits Convention Center.

AES 131st CONVENTION MASTER CLASS PROGRAM INCLUDES:

SUPERSTAR SESSIONS: Tony Visconti, Platinum Producer/Engineer. A Brooklyn born super-mixer, Visconti rose from the ranks of a Catskills resort band to become a more

ROCHESTER, New York – Continuing to grow business through extended platform offerings for IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB) solutions, leading design resource Lab X Technologies has hired Dr. Yi Cao as a Research and Development Engineer. With his focus on Field Programmable Gate Array development, Cao joins the growing advanced development group of Lab X engineers in creating and extending new AVB platforms for the company.

“We welcome Dr. Cao to our team as Lab X continues to expand our audio AVB platforms,” stated Eldridge Mount, Vice President of Advanced Development, Lab X Technologies. “As an integral part our strategic advanced development efforts, Yi will help deliver our licensees the next generation of elite AV networking solutions, including AVB video platforms currently under development.”

“I was first attracted to Lab X by the opportunity to be part of more

International Colorist Academy (ICA) continues to expand with the addition of a new instructor. Dado Valentic joins the ICA team as an instructor for Digital Camera Workflows & Grading.

Dado is a highly experienced stereoscopic 3D colourist, based in the UK, and recently graded the BAFTA award winning “Flying with Monsters.” Dado’s ICA courses cover all aspects of stereoscopic post production and are beneficial to editors, digital image technologies, as well as colorists. more

International Colorist Academy (ICA) continues to expand with the addition of a new instructor. Dado Valentic joins the ICA team as an instructor for Digital Camera Workflows & Grading.

Dado is a highly experienced stereoscopic 3D colourist, based in the UK, and recently graded the BAFTA award winning “Flying with Monsters.” Dado’s ICA courses cover all aspects of stereoscopic post production and are beneficial to editors, digital image technologies, as well as colorists. more

Audio Head, operating out of the historic Warner Hollywood sound facility makes an impressive debut with Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life”
HOLLYWOOD— The Tree of Life, this year’s winner of the Palm d’Or at Cannes, marked a triumphant return for director Terrence Malick, whose last film, The New World, appeared in 2006. It also signaled the auspicious rebirth of one of the most treasured sound facilities in Hollywood.
Final mixing for The Tree of Life, was completed at Audio Head, a sound company that opened in 2010 on the historic studio space known as “The Lot.” The company’s facilities, which include four large dubbing stages, Foley and ADR stages, production and editorial offices, and a 130-seat screening theater, once housed the sound department of Warner Hollywood Studios and prior to that was home to Goldwyn Sound. The mixing stages have been used to complete sound work for some of the most memorable films in history including The Godfather, Raging Bull, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars and West Side Story. more