The Onion News Network: Holyfield Boxes A Horse
Evander Holyfield To Box Horse For Heavyweight Title
As promised, more stuff from The Onion. I did the dialogue editing and sound design for the commercial and manager’s press conference.
“Party Time” for The Newark Museum
My first video for The Onion!
You may have noticed that I’ve included The Onion News Network on my “I’ve Worked With” list there on the right side of the page. My job is basically to clean up the audio and make all the edits unnoticeable. (Video editors usually edit for visual coherence first and audio second, which means there are occasional irregularities in the sound that need to be fixed–and that’s what I do.) So if you watch this and don’t notice anything out of the ordinary, then I did my job well!
I’ll have some more videos from them coming up soon, this time with some more creative sound design. In those cases, I’m also doing the audio equivalent of green-screening; inserting their characters into an artificial sound environment I’ve created.
New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time
AUDIO – Met Podcast: The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
I recorded and edited this podcast for The Metropolitan Museum of Art working through Antenna Audio.
Doug Eklund, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs, speaks with the artist Dan Graham about Jack Goldstein’s 1976 series called A Suite of Nine 7-Inch Records with Sound Effects. The records are on display in the exhibition “The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984,” and visitors to the Museum can listen to them in the galleries.
“…By limiting the form with a fixed set of design rules and stepping away from the traditional function-oriented approach to the design process, this project transcends the border between design and art, raising fundamental questions about the nature of the bike as design and as a lifestyle accessory and introducing a much needed playfulness on the bicycle scene. The BauBike is a bike for the modern urban society where adaptability is a necessity.”
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I haven’t posted much bike-related content lately, but yesterday my buddy and erstwhile bandmate, Joel, brought this series of videos to my attention. Appropriately, they combine a bunch of my interests: bikes, experimental music, and Frank Zappa!
I’m struck by how much Zappa, in his clean-shaven youth and skinny tie, could easily be a modern-day hipster. Something about his unshakable sincerity also reminds me of an composer friend of mine from college—Dan Futura, are you out there?
I also think it’s interesting how everybody on TV or the radio during that era seems to have kind of casual, polished swagger in their voice. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is…
And I love how he plugs his record at the end!
Allen: Is there anything you’d like to say in closing?
Zappa: Yes, I would… Next week this record is being released called called “How’s Your Bird?” … Go out and buy it. It’s wonderful. It has everything but a bicycle.