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KA BAIRD - SAPROPELIC PYCNIC
Recorded Live At Origin Of Audio
Live Recording / Mix / Video
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POWER MYSTERY - NO DAPL
Recorded Live At Origin Of Audio
Live Recording / Mix / Video
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BEYOND THE DAWN
Directed by Dawn Of Man
Short Film, 3min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Mix by Philip Kim
Space Monkey's latest transmission. Strange things have been happening around the Dawn Of Man studio ever since this video appeared one day in an unmarked envelope. -
WE HAVE AN ANCHOR / GRAVITY HILL
Directed by Jem Cohen
Feature Film with Live Score, 85min.
Live Recording / Mix / Video
Multi-projection documentary portrait of Cape Breton. Presented with live music by Jim White, Guy Picciotto, T.Griffin, Jessica Moss, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Sophie Trudeau, Mira Billotte, and Matana Roberts. Recorded multitrack audio for mainstage presentations at BAM's Next Wave Series in 2013, at the Barbican, London in 2015, at Sonic Protest, Paris in 2015, and at Big Ears, Knoxville, in 2016.
We Have An Anchor (01)
We Have An Anchor (02)
We Have An Anchor (03)
Gravity Hill / Sound + Image (01)
Gravity Hill / Sound + Image (02)
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GREENWOOD
Directed by Adam Newport-Berra
Produced by Ghost Robot
Documentary Short Film, 19min.
Field Recording
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THEY CAME AT NIGHT
Directed by Andrew Ellis & Alex Mallis
Narrative Short Film, 19min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Re-Recording Engineer
An abducted child soldier escapes the LRA and returns home. The film is currently being toured in central Africa to educate and encourage communities to peacefully welcome LRA combatants who surrender.
Official Selection: Brooklyn Film Festival; Vancouver International; Santa Barbara International. Winner: Prix d'Or L.E.S. Film Festival.
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NYTIMES - THEY MADE NEW YORK
Directed by Amos Poe
Produced by Dawn Of Man
Documentary Short, 3min.
Field Recording, Sound Design, Re-Recording Engineer
Production sound, sound edit, and mix for this short video for the New York Times, featuring some of the amazing people who helped to define what New York is / was / can be. -
POWER MYSTERY - FOLKS ALONE
Recorded Live At Origin Of Audio
Live Recording / Mix / Video
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RUTHA MAE HARRIS: FREEDOM SINGER
Had the extreme privilege to meet and record Rutha Mae Harris, along with her brother Emory Harris, speaking and singing from the porch of their home and from the Old Mt. Zion Church, in Albany, Georgia. Rutha is among the four original members of the Freedom Singers, the group who in 1962, formed to write and perform re-appropriated hymns and spirituals during the Civil Rights Movement. The group's aim was to educate communities in the South through song, advocating for equality and peace. They sang at countless rallies, sit-ins, protests, jails, and marches, including the March on Washington in 1963.
Rutha & Emory Harris
Rutha Mae Harris at Old Mt. Zion
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LECEDRA
Directed by Jivko Darakchiev
Narrative/Documentary Short, 29min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Production Record
Narrative/documentary short, directed by Jivko Darakchiev, shot on location in Lesidren, Bulgaria, for 2 weeks in the dead of winter. Locations included a livestock/ meat processing factory, the shuttered Lesidren film center, and several homes in the village of Lesidren. The weather reached a low of -20°C and treated us to a storm that dropped over 2 meters of snow.
Lecedren Women's Choir
Nelly
film center
factory
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MUSIC VOYAGER: TURKEY
Spent 15 days shooting 3 episodes of the music/ travel show, Music Voyager, for PBS. Shot in Istanbul, Cappadocia, and Izmir, tracking performances and interviews with some of Turkey's biggest musical talents in rock, jazz, pop, and traditional music. Performances were multitracked live using a Metric Halo ULN-8 (seen left, tracking Serkan Cagri). Back in Brooklyn we mixed these recordings down to be show and album ready. Below is a small sample of what we took away.
Serkan Çağri
Hüsnü Şenlendirici
Nil Karaibrahimgil
dinner music
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NELSON MANDELA: THE MYTH AND ME
Recorded production for the feature documentary film, Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me. The film was produced for the BBC by Born Free Media, and directed by acclaimed South African director Khalo Matabane. We had the opportunity to interview notable world leaders including Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Ariel Dorfman, Angelique Kidou, Rula Jebreal, and more. The film explores the idea of wether Mandela's philosophies of freedom, forgiveness, and reconciliation still resonate in a world plagued by war, injustice, and social inequalities.
Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman 2
Colin Powell
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EMPIRE II
Directed by Amos Poe
Feature Film, 90min.
Sound Design, Stereo Mix
Special Screening in the 64th Venice Film Festival, Featured at Tribeca and Thessaloniki International Film Festivals.
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THE HAUNTED WIND CHIMES
Recorded and mixed several tunes for The Haunted Wind Chimes, the old timey folk quartet from Pueblo, CO. All tracking was done live, in the Great Outdoors.
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HE / SHE / HE
Feature documentary directed by Alix Lambert, shot on location throughout Albania, for 3 weeks. The film documents the lives of 6 burrnesha, women who have taken a lifelong vow of celibacy and who assume the social role of men in Albanian society.
Mother
back yard
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OTOMO YOSHIHIDE
Otomo Yoshihide is a legendary composer and avant-garde musician, known for his free improvisation jazz and noise music. We caught up with him in Tokyo to record a full, 90-minute live performance for a small crowd in Aoyama. Included below are two short excerpts from that performance.
Excerpt: Otomo Yoshihide
Excerpt 2: Otomo Yoshihide
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RICHIE STEARNS
Field Recording / Mix / Video
Produced by Bess Greenberg
Audio & Video by JR Skola & Nathan Wheeler
Caught up with Richie near his home in Ithaca NY for a couple of recordings on the front porch.
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ESTHER PEREL: SESSIONS
Directed and Produced by Esther Perel
Web Series, 2016-Present
Sound Record, Sound Edit, Mix by Philip Kim
Sessions is a monthly series of 60-minute conversations between Esther Perel and a host of community-leading couples therapists, coaches, and relationship educators, on some of the most compelling and challenging questions facing clinicians today. The one-on-one interviews are shot with four cameras, with minimal editing, and are mastered to broadcast standard. -
WE CAUSE SCENES
Directed by Matt Adams
Documentary Feature Film, 86min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Re-Recording Engineer
Documentary Feature telling the story of Improv Everywhere, the world famous public prank collective. Official Selection: SXSW 2013; Hot Docs 2013; Indiegrits 2013.
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AL JAZEERA AMERICA: BORDERLAND
Worked alongside the incredible folks at Muck Media and In Films to record production sound for this 4-part reality TV series Epic, which shines some much-needed light the issue of illegal immigration in the US. Six Americans with opposing points of view were selected and brought together to travel to Arizona, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Iowa, to retrace the steps of three migrants who died while crossing into the US.
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ASBURY PARK
Directed by Robert Andersen
Short Film, 22min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Mix
Winner Boston International Film Festival Best Short Award; Winner Redstone West Film Festival Best Short Award; Winner Golden Aces Award Las Vegas FF; Winner Honolulu FF Aloha Accolade Award; Official Selection Garden State Film Festival;
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BILL DE BLASIO
Recorded production for Bill de Blasio's 2014 NYC Mayoral race ad campaign series. The Acres&Co produced spots proved to be largely influential in helping de Blasio to come out on top in the election. Since winning the office, the de Blasio team continues to work with the original ad campaign crew to produce new content, used to publicize the ongoing work and accomplishments of the administration.
Bill de Blasio
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THE BROKEN TOWER
Narrative feature directed by and starring James Franco, shot on location throughout NYC. The film dramatizes the life of American poet Hart Crane. Provided production sound services for select days of production.
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MADE IN CHINA
Directed by Judi Krant | Distributed by IFC Films
Feature Film, 87min.
Sound Design, Stereo Mix
Winner of the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for best Narrative Feature; Winner of SXSW Chicken & Egg Emergent Woman Director Award; Winner of the Silver Hugo Award at Chicago International FF; Audience Award Winner at OIFF; Worked with Supervising Sound Editor Chris Athens at Sterling Sound.
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THOMAS WESLEY STERN
Field Recording / Video
Audio & Video by
Kevin Grossman / James McCaffrey
Jessie Hur / JR Skola
Recorded several songs with New Egypt band Thomas Wesley Stern. The band took us to record in one of their favorite outdoor spots in central NJ.
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CRUMMY NAILS
Recorded and mixed a live score for the Dawn Of Man film The Great Escape Of James Weir, written and performed by Crummy Nails.
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LA COMMEDIA DI AMOS POE
Directed by Amos Poe | Produced by Dawn Of Man Productions and Bousis Film Company
Feature Film, 104min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit
Featuring Original Score by Peter Gordon, Debbie Harry and others;
VO by Roberto Benigni, Sandro Lombardi and others; Premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival
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EMPIRE II LIVE SCORE
Live recording of a 3-hour long improvised performance featuring Thurston Moore, Bill Nance, and Matt Heyner. The trio provided musical accompaniment to the film Empire II, directed by Amos Poe, during a Tribeca Film Festival special event screening.
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THE SHAMAN'S APPRENTICE
Narrative short directed by Max Nova and shot on location in Boulder, CO, for 2 weeks. Having the audio post process close in mind, we employed specific recording techniques throughout production, such as double boom, close micing sound effects, extensive wild track, and recording to analog tape.
Directed by Max Nova | Short Film, 19min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Mix, Production Record
Winner Estes Park FF Best Short; Winner Castle Rock FF Best Short
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PAPER ASHTRAYS
Breathe The Steam
Ghosts
Dry Dust
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MARK SCHOTTINGER
Recorded and mixed a few demos with longtime friend Mark Schottinger, around the time he would find fame as a singer/songwriter in the feature documentary film, The Parking Lot Movie.
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DARK HORSE AND THE CAROUSELS
Recorded a full length 12-song studio album for the band, in 2 days.
Party at the Castle
Young Soul
Hard To Die
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FLOATING (2011)
Design Loves Art Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Paul Young
This piece was compiled from recordings of as many different sources of running water as we could find - streams, drainage pipes, sinks, showers, gutters, and the ocean, to name a few. The multichannel recordings were weaved into a "swimming" mix that navigates from harsh, impersonal white noise to the more homely, familiar sounds of household plumbing. The overall effect aims to reinforce the video's themes of limbo, ambivalence, cleansing, and modern mass-consumption runoff.
Sound Design, FX Recording, Mix, Custom Installation
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NEW BROOKLYN
Directed by Christopher Cannucciari
Feature Film, 85min.
Sound Edit
Starring Blanca Lewin
Winner Digital International FF Best Narrative Feature; Official Selection Cinequest San Jose Film Festival; Official Selection Festivalito VIII -
BIGGIE SMALLS:
RAP PHENOMENON
Feature Documentary, 87min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Foley, Mix
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RAGS PARKLAND
Rags is an interstellar stowaway and folk music legend from outer space. He dropped by our space one day to belt out an 8-song live tracked EP about androids, apocalypse, and love in the year 2250.
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RARA LAKAY
Originating back to 18th Century colonial Haiti, Rara is a form of Haitian roots music born out of and usually played during Carnival season. Rara Lakay is one of the few groups in the world actively keeping this traditional form of music alive, and are having a lot of fun while doing so. We recorded several tunes during an afternoon procession in their hometown of Little Haiti, Miami.
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DOWN UNDER GOATS GRUFF BRIDGE (2009)
Manhattan Bridge Grand Arch, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Curated by Artlog for Collect DUMBO
Created an eerie underworld soundscape for this modern retelling of the classic folk tale. A lumbering, 20-foot tall projected Troll patrolled the cavernous underbelly of the Manhattan Bridge for the duration of a single evening. The creature's enormous, booming footsteps were supplied by wirelessly syncing two huge combo bass amplifiers, built into the goat "cages" on either side of the Troll.
Sound Design, Foley Record, Mix, Custom Installation
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THE AMY CHARACTER
Directed by Andrew Simkiss
Short Film, 9min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Foley, Mix, Production Record
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HOLY COW (2009)
Castle Braid Gallery, Brooklyn
In some religions the cow is considered a sacred animal. The Holy Cow is no exception. This 12 minute long piece was designed to support the experiential installation Holy Cow, for the entirety of its 3 week run at Castle Braid in Brooklyn. Adding sound to this normally silent piece provided an extended context for the otherwise fairly simple work. The resulting image was that of a full outdoor backwoods barbecue, affecting something between a commentary on industrialized meat production and utter aloneness.
Sound Design, Foley Record, Mix, Custom Installation
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10,000 CRICKETS (2008)
Mediums Gallery, Chelsea
10,000 Crickets was designed in 2008 to accompany Dawn Of Man's immersive room-sized, walk-thru installation, Octopi Make Love, at the Mediums Gallery in NYC. The month-long exhibit blended themes of prehistoric nature with futuristic robotic technology. This mix was created from original recordings of crickets from upstate NY and rural southern NJ.
Sound Design, Foley Record, Mix, Custom Installation
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SMITHEREENS
Directed by Ben Bindra | Produced by Dawn Of Man
Short Film, 10min.
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Foley, Mix, Production Record
