Tonebenders Podcast

The Creator is the recent film by Director Gareth Edwards, that features a sound design philosophy of Retro Futurism. The world is going to war over Artificial Intelligence and the robots, or simulants, powered by AI. Oscar Nominees for their sound work on The Creator, Erik Aadahl & Ethan Van der Ryn, give sonic life to multiple generations of futuristic robots, weapons and vehicles.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/249---the-creator-with-erik-aadahl--ethan-van-der-ryn/

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Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Alan Wake II was released in the fall of 2023 to great critical acclaim. In this episode we talk with the sound team about their work crafting sounds for Bright Falls, The Dark Place, radio shows, strange commercials, a late night talk show, and all the other oddities that make up Alan's terrifying world. Joining us for this discussion are Richard Lapington (Audio Director), Arthur Tisseront (Senior Dialog Designer), Anika Neubert (Development Manager) and Kit Challis (Senior Technical Audio Designer).

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/248---alan-wake-ii/

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Tonebenders Host This Episode: Mark Kilborn

We dig into the ambitious sound work done on Director Bradley Cooper's latest film, Maestro. They recorded the London Symphony Orchestra live on set with out any pre-recorded tracks. I am not sure anything like this has been attempted before? In addition to the huge orchestra scenes, there are intensely quiet scenes, that required a whole different set of skills to pull off. Re-Recording Mixers Dean Zupancic & Tom Ozanich are joined by Production Mixer Steven Morrow and Supervising Music Editor Jason Ruder to walk us through how they pulled off their Oscar nominated work.

Show Notes:https://tonebenderspodcast.com/247---maestro/

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Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

We are joined by 5 members of the sound team from The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. They walk us through their memories of working on this influential film, the sounds they created and the impact this experience had on their careers. Tim Nielsen (Sound Effects Editor), Katy Wood (Assistant Effects Editor, Foley Editor, Sound Effects Recordist), Brent Burge (Sound Effects Editor), David Farmer (Sound Designer) and Chris Boyes (Re-Recording Mixer) have lots of stories to share and have clear bonds that have lasted through the years.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/246---the-lord-of-the-rings-looking-back/

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Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Paul Hsu welcomes Tim and Teresa into his studio at C5 Sound in New York City, for this in-person interview. He talks about his epic collaboration with director Ari Aster on the film Beau Is Afraid. We dig into many specific moments and the over all approach to this mind bending work, where the sounds both help clear things up and further confuse the audience.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/245---beau-is-afraid/

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Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Teresa Morrow

We talk about the challenge of creating the sound design for Marvel's newest super hero, Kahhori, introduced in the new season of the Disney Plus series, What If...? Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer Mac Smith and Re-Recording Mixer Jeff King take us through their design process, how the final mix came into focus and lots more.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/244---what-if/

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Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

For the first time in a long time, all 4 Tonebenders hosts get together to hang out and do a draft of our favorite genres to do sound design for. Tim, René, Teresa and Mark take turns picking the types of movies we have always wanted to tackle in our own work. We each have to pick one genre from each of the following subsets:

1 - Talkies:

Mystery (Knives Out, Memento, Twin Peaks)

War Film (1917, All Quiet On The Western Front, Saving Private Ryan)

Historical Drama (The Revenant, The Favourite, 12 Years A Slave)

Oscar Bait (Tar, The King's Speech, House Of Gucci)

2 - Guns and Punches:

Police/Gangster (The Departed, Serpico, Goodfellas)

Action/Adventure (Raiders of The Lost Ark, Fast And Furious, Bourne films)

Martial Arts (Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Drunken Master)

Western (Hateful 8, True Grit, Power of the Dog)

3 - Scary Stuff:

Zombie (The Last of Us, World War Z, Dawn of the Dead)

Slasher (Scream, Child's Play, Elm Street)

Thriller (Fatel Attraction, Get Out, American Psycho)

Paranormal (The Ring, The Conjuring, Exorcist)

4 - Out of This World:

SciFi (Alien, 5th Element, Nope)

Fantasy (Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, The Witcher)

Superhero (Ironman, The Batman, Guardians of The Galaxy)

Monster Movie (Godzilla, Pacific Rim, Cloverfield)

5 - Real Life:

Doc (March of the Penguins, Kid Stays in the PIcture, They Shall Not Grow Old)

Music Doc/Concert Film (Moonage Daydream, Get Back, Woodstock)

Bio Pic (King Richard, Social Network, Ferrari)

Sports Film (Rocky, Friday Night Lights, Iron Claw)

6 - Lighter Fair:

Comedy (Bridesmaids, Zoolander, Rushmore)

Family Animation (Puss In Boots, The Bad Guys, Toy Story)

RomCom (Harry Met Sally, Always Be My Maybe, Red White & Royal Blue)

Musical (LaLa Land, West Side Story, Tick Tick Boom)

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/243---year-end-hang-out--genre-draft/

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Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead, René Coronado, Teresa Morrow, Mark Kilborn

Crowds are so hard to make sound authentic & alive in sports films. So much work goes into designing large crowds that roar with emotion. In The Iron Claw, the wrestling scenes have crowds that sound fantastic and we have the audio team here to tell us how they created them. From capturing the extras on set and recording loop group, through sound design and final mixing we go into each step to creating great sounding crowds. Production sound mixer Paul Ledford, Dialog/ADR supervisor Martin Gwynn Jones, Sound Designer Brennan Mercer, Re-Recording Mixer and Sound Supervisor Matt Chan and Re-Recording Mixer Graham Rogers tell us about making crowds and lots more.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/242---the-iron-claw/

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Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Picture Editor Hilda Rasula is joined by Supervising Sound Editor Mandell Winter and Supervising Dialog /ADR Editor Sang Jun Kim, to talk about their work on American Fiction. This film has excellent writing and acting, so it was up to the post production team to live up to those standards and carry it through to the end. They discuss the tight rope walk of keeping the comedy alive while also not letting it tip over into farce, and making buildings and spaces rich with sonic character to help tell story points.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/241---the-sound--picture-of-american-fiction/

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Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Michael Mann's new film "Ferrari", is a personal drama at heart, but we all know that it is the CARS that will draw people to see this one. Fortunately those cars sound amazing and we have the sound team with us, to talk about how they created and designed those sounds. Production sound mixer Lee Orloff, Supervising Sound Editors Tony Lamberti & Bernard Weiser, and Re-recording mixer Andy Nelson tell us about how they recorded the antique cars, how they differentiated the sounds for each vehicle in the races and lots more. This is a spoiler free conversation.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/240---ferrari/

Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead