SoundWorks Collection

We chat with re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor Lee Walpole about his recent work on Director Tom Harper's film, The Aeronauts. The film is in theaters now and will be streaming on Amazon Prime Video starting December 20th! In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.

Join filmmakers Josh & Benny Safdie for a behind-the-scenes conversation about their new film Uncut Gems. The brothers discuss how they used sound design and music to create the perilous, uncomfortable world of Adam Sandler’s character, Howard Ratner. They are joined by composer Daniel Lopatin, who talks about using the classic 1970s Moog synthesizer to create the movie’s emotional score, and re-recording mixer Skip Lievsay, who talks about how he used Dolby Atmos to give the audience the experience of being in the world of the characters. Recorded in front of a live audience at the New York Film Festival Artist Academy. Josh Safdie, Co-writer, Co-director Benny Safdie, Co-writer, Co-director Daniel Lopatin, Composer Skip Lievsay, Re-recording mixer

ASCAP winning and MTV VMA nominated composer Tom Salta is one of the most versatile and prolific music artists/producers working in film, television, advertising and video games. Renowned for crafting emotionally engaging soundtracks for multimedia, Salta has received widespread industry acclaim for his world-class produced hybrid scores featured in film, television and video games such as Machine Games’ WOLFENSTEIN : Youngblood & Cyberpilot, Microsoft’s iconic HALO series (G.A.N.G. Best Original Soundtrack Award), Ubisoft’s PRINCE OF PERSIA: The Forgotten Sands and RED STEEL (IGN Award for Best Original Score), Tom Clancy’s GHOST RECON and H.A.W.X series, as well as the epic theme music for the record-breaking online multiplayer game PLAYERUNKNOWN’s BATTLEGROUNDS, which has sold in excess of 50 million units with over 400 million players. Salta’s long-time collaborations with 343 Industries and Microsoft Studios include the re-imagined soundtracks to HALO: Combat Evolved Anniversary and HALO 2: Anniversary, as well as composing the original scores for HALO: Spartan Assault and HALO: Spartan Strike (the first HALO video game to be released on Apple devices). Additionally, Salta returned to the beloved sci-fi franchise to score the animated series, HALO: The Fall of Reach, adapted from the best-selling novel and produced by the award-winning animation studio Sequence. His third solo outing in the iconic HALO universe, Salta also composed, arranged and produced the first original pop song in the franchise’s history, “Take This Life”, featured exclusively on HALO: The Fall of Reach soundtrack. Prior to his composing career, Salta toured with and worked on releases by a diverse array of popular recording artists. After several years of touring, Salta became increasingly immersed in studio work, producing, remixing and songwriting. Recording under the artist name “Atlas Plug,” Salta released the critically acclaimed electronic / orchestral music album “2 Days or Die” which quickly caught the attention of leading music supervisors. His album introduced a new hybrid sound to the visual entertainment industry at large, garnering high-profile placements on numerous television shows, international commercials and movie trailers, simultaneously launching his music career in video games, which he continues to embrace as a cutting-edge and powerful musical voice in modern scoring.

In this episode we catch up with the picture editor and sound team behind the Elton John biopic Rocketman to discuss the film’s unique blend of pre-recorded music, live singing on set, and post-recorded songs. The team unpacks numerous musical sequences in the film, including the famous Troubadour concert featuring the song “Crocodile Rock,” and the collaboration with music producer Giles Martin to create the film’s signature sound. Danny Sheehan, Supervising sound editor Matthew Collinge, Supervising sound editor & re-recording mixer Mike Prestwood Smith, Re-recording mixer Chris Dickens, Film editor

Join Lindsey Alvarez and Robert Stambler as they share their creative process behind some of today’s most interesting-sounding creatures, superheroes, and villains. This masterclass presentation will illuminate the important role of creative sound work and the close collaboration of the sound team and director. Moderated by Michael Coleman, SoundWorks Collection Recorded on October 28th, 2019 at the Savannah Film Festival

We chat with the Obsidian Entertainment sound team to discuss their recent video game release, The Outer Worlds! Justin E. Bell, Studio Audio Director – Audio Director, Composer Scott Gilmore, Senior Audio Designer – Creatures and Gameplay Zachary Simon, Senior Audio Designer – Weapons and Foley Dylan Hairston, Audio Designer – Ambiences and Emitters Jerrick Flores, Technical Designer – Chatter, Spatialization, and Optimization Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the furthest edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later than you expected only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy the Halcyon colony. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter a host of factions all vying for power, who you decide to become will determine the fate of everyone in Halcyon. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable. www.obsidian.net

Carnival Row is an expansive, visually and aurally opulent murder mystery series from Amazon. Join re-recording mixers Marc Fishman and Robert Carr as they talk about how one goes about creating the sound of flying faeries’ wings, why Dolby Atmos was part of the concept of the sound of the series right from the beginning, and how one of the major plot points of the series was communicated to the audience through Foley, with no dialog. Marc Fishman - Re-recording Mixer Robert Carr - Re-recording Mixer Moderated by Glenn Kiser, Director of the Dolby Institute Recorded at the Mix Magazine Sound for Film & TV event at Sony Studios on Saturday, September 28, 2019

Join the team behind the sound and music of Stranger Things 3 for a discussion about how the sound of the show has evolved and grown over three seasons, delivering cinema quality sound on an episodic schedule and budget, how to preserve that experience across all home platforms, the challenges of keeping creature sounds fresh and new, and finally, how the famous Neverending Story sequence came together. Craig Henighan - Sound Supervisor Mark Patterson - Dx and Music Mixer David Klotz - Music Editor Angelo Palazzo - SFX Editor Katie Halliday - SFX Editor Moderated by Glenn Kiser, Director of the Dolby Institute Recorded at the Mix Magazine Sound for Film & TV event at Sony Studios on Saturday, September 28, 2019

We chat with Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer Damian Volpe to discuss his recent collaboration with visionary Director Robert Eggers and explore his new film, The Lighthouse. Shot in black-and-white, the film follows two lighthouse keepers (portrayed by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) as they are faced with solitude, but start to lose their sanity and become threatened by their worst nightmares. Damian Volpe is a Brooklyn based sound designer, supervisor, and mixer. He is a founding member of Harbor Sound, and a working partner of ((Audience)), a non- profit group dedicated to presenting music and sound art in new contexts, including specifically the use of movie theaters as concert halls. He has had the good fortune to collaborate over several decades with an amazing cast of directors including Ira Sachs, Debra Granik, Robert Eggers, Dee Rees, Marielle Heller, Ted Melfi, Mira Nair, Peter Hedges, Jim Jarmusch, and Matthew Barney. Damian’s work can be heard in a wide variety of feature films (The Lighthouse, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Leave No Trace, St. Vincent, Mudbound, Drive, Winter’s Bone, Margin Call, Forty Shades of Blue, Happiness), documentaries (Billy the Kid, Trouble the Waters) and art pieces (Drawing Restraint 9, States of Unbelonging, Last Address). His work can also be heard at the award-winning Gear Platte River Road Archway Monument and at The George Washington Museum and Education Center in Mount Vernon. His sonic interests include susurration, hypnogogia, tintinnabulation, buzz, bottomlessness, and decay.

Film sound legends Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Ben Burtt (Star Wars, Wall•E), Gary Rydstrom (Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan) and Making Waves director Midge Costin join Dolby Institute director Glenn Kiser in conversation before a live audience after the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The wide-ranging discussion touches on the role of subjective sound in creative storytelling, why the sound of Wall•E’s voice made some people cry, and how famed director Francis Ford Coppola uses what he calls “silent take 6.”