As 2009 draws to a close work is intensifying on the post mix for Driver’s Ed Mutiny. Over the next three weeks or so I’ll be doing a fine dialog edit, with the final mix sessions taking place towards the end of January.
Look out for more news coming soon on other projects for 2010!
Hot on the heels of delivering the audio mix for Coasting (check out the new trailer), I will be creating score and sound design for BackStage Theatre Company’s November production of Aunt Dan and Lemon.
Initial conversations have indicated that this will be a challenging and fascinating show to design for. The BackStage Blog will likely be keeping track of creative developments.
Aunt Dan and Lemon opens Friday, November 20th, 2009 at the Chopin Studio Theatre, Chicago.
Over the next month I’m going to be editing and mixing audio for Coasting, an upcoming, feature length film from CNGM Pictures. See the Coasting website for a synopsis and trailer (also on IMDB)!
I was asked to write a couple of paragraphs about the music for Infamous Commonwealth Theatre’s production of The Grapes of Wrath for their subscriber newsletter:
My goal was to provide a musical context for the Joads’ journey along Route 66, not only in a narrative sense, but in the physical motion of the Hudson Super Six, the hymns and melodies the Joads might have brought with them, and the types of music they could have encountered as they traveled. These intentions led me to arrange some well known songs and melodies, which were roughly contemporaneous with the dust bowl era, alongside my own compositions.
Most of my inspiration came from listening to recordings, notably Harry Smith’s now famous Anthology of American Folk Music compilation, and later recordings made during the folk revival of the late 1950s and ’60s by such groups as the New Lost City Ramblers. I felt that it was important for the music in The Grapes of Wrath to share some of the honesty, power and directness I heard in those performances, and it is my hope that something of the “human sperit” of which Jim Casy speaks, can be heard.
Grapes opens on Saturday, April 25th at the Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St., Chicago. See Infamous’s web site for more details.
After its screenings at this year’s Lake County Film Festival, Gnome Man’s Land has been listed on IMDB. I’m delighted at this badge of recognition, and I hope it’ll be the first of many IMDB credits!
It has been my intention to update the web site for some time now, and here it is – at last. I chose to use WordPress as these days I’m more interested in sound design than web design.
Over the coming weeks I will be adding back in examples of my work, as well as discussing my approaches to the challenges of creating sound and music for current and upcoming theatre productions and films.
Thanks for visiting and come back soon!