SOVIET SLEEP EXPERIMENT: AUDIO POST ASSIST, FEATURE FILM

Recently I’ve been assisting with audio post on the feature film “The Soviet Sleep Experiment”. Directed by Barry Andersson, and featuring an ensemble cast that includes Chris Kattan, the film premieres this Friday 10/18, 5:10 PM at Twin Cities Film Festival. I engineered and edited some of the ADR, as well as filling in some Foley, sound effects editing, and atmospheric ambience for mixer Jonathan Siri Mohs. From the spreadsheet of requests from the dialog editor, I noticed that a lot of screaming and other loud/ harsh vocalizations were needed. So I set up a more easily “punished” dynamic mic in the booth alongside the usual boom, so I could flip back and forth between them as needed. Turned out to be a good plan. Looking forward to hearing how it all worked out in the mix.

TIMBERWOLVES

Did a fun little audio editing job for the Minnesota Timberwolves the other day. The work just keeps on dribbling in. Get it? I can explain it if you don’t get it.

WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TO GET THROUGH THIS THING CALLED LIFE.

Celebrating Minneapolis today.

This summer I wrote some music for a film by Felipe Mafasoli’s post-apocalyptic film “Nowhere Left to Run”— I’ve written about this music previously— and I decided to record some of it al fresco.

As folks around these parts know, you can often find a piano parked in some arbitrary location outdoors downtown when it’s warm out, so I figured it’d be fun to record on location. I take a portable recorder with me pretty much everywhere I go, so I plopped it down on top of the piano and went to town, accompanied by the soundscape of Nicollet Mall, letting it roll after I was done to let the city contribute some sound on its own.

It was an honor to perform on a piano emblazoned with the names of some local heroes. When I make music here, I bask in the shadow of The Trashmen, Julee Cruise, Hüsker Dü, Judy Garland, The Andrews Sisters, Tod Dockstader, and of course His Royal Badness himself.