One of the new pieces of original music I’ve been developing for After the Gunflint, a wilderness survival film directed by JD O'Brien. The creative brief: “deconstructed bluegrass”. It’ll probably be deconstructed a lot further from this point, but we like where it’s going so far.
Equal parts magical fantasy and undead horror, "Elixir" is a short film by director Justin Staggs. Junior Birdman Audio provided Foley, sound edit and mix. Picture lock arrived at the studio completely silent, with no audio recorded on location whatsoever. Every sound you hear in the movie-- which you can view in its entirety at the link below-- was created and/ or cut in by yours truly and composer David Gerald Sutton. Voice talent Molly Ryman provided ADR performance for the protagonist’s vocalizations throughout the piece. Staggs brought in a variety of SFX to get me going, and I ransacked my library for more. But many elements-- like the blood drops, the woodsy footsteps and the dangling necklace-- are custom cues created just for this production.
Recent and upcoming festival screenings of "Beebox", an animated short by Cable Hardin featuring FX edit, sound design, some light scoring and mix by Mike Hallenbeck at Junior Birdman Audio.
A rough-hewn tumble of organic textures, the film explores organic farming via Hardin's generation, documentation and manipulation of frenetic imagery from Blue Dasher Farm in Estelline, SD.
Screenings have included/ will include:
Barents Ecology Film Festival, Petrozavodsk, Russia, April 2018, FINALIST
Sioux Empire Film Festival, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, May 2018
River Film Festival, Padua, Italy, June 2018
Food Film Fest, Bergamo, Italy, June 2018
CineAmbiente – Environmental Film Festival, Torino, Italy, July 2018
Supertoon International Animation Festival, Šibenik, Croatia, July 2018
Conscious Cartoons Animation Festival, Seattle, Washington, USA, September 2018