Music Tracking and VO for Peg + Cat

The creators of the PBS Kids show, Peg + Cat, had an excellent time recording in our Mezzanine Studio this month. Engineer Adrian Thorstensen had the opportunity to work with the music director for the show J. Walter Hawkes, and record the NYC based mariachi band, Flor De Toloache.

Peg + Cat is a popular children’s television show based on the book “The Chicken Problem”. The show emphasizes math skills for 3 to 5 year olds and seeks to inspire a child’s natural curiosity.

Flor De Toloache was the musical feature on this episode of Peg + Cat. The all female mariachi band tours regularly, you can see them at performances from the Brooklyn Bowl to the 2016 Latin Grammys.

How Dogs Got Their Shapes

Jake Robards

This month National Geographic came in to record VO for How Dogs got their Shapes. Engineer, Jake Bolles, got to hunt with the hounds while recording and editing audio for the show. 

Narrated by Jake Robards, the 45 minute segment shows how man’s best friend has evolved through history. How Dogs Got their Shapes will air on National Geographic in 2016.

ADR for Tower of Silence

This week Adrian Thorstensen got to record ADR for the fantasy film, Tower of Silence, working with the film's director, Erik Flynn Patton. Patton cofounded Palmarium LLC, a company in Long Island committed to bringing a unique vision to independent film.

Tower of Silence is set In New Netherland colony, where three young heroes set out to rescue their mentor from the clutches of a mysterious evil. The film is set to release in October 2016.

Stray Bullets

Filmmaker Larry Fessenden of Glass Eye Pix was in the studio recording a version of Ave Maria for the upcoming feature "Stray Bullets" by his son, Jake Fessenden. Lucy Dhegrae sang a wonderful version, worthy of the death scene in this bloody and riotous film noir.

John Luther Adams' Become Ocean in "The Revenant"

If you've seen the trailer for the new film "The Revenant" then you've heard music from John Luther Adams' Become Ocean, which was mixed and mastered right here at Dubway by Nathaniel Reichman.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu (of "Birdman" and "Biutiful") knew he wanted Become Ocean in his new film. The music is in the trailer and is also the score for the incredibly ambitious opening scenes in which DiCaprio and his men are under attack from Native Americans.

Become Ocean was recorded in Seattle with the Seattle Symphony for Cantaloupe Music. 

Location audio for "Ladies of Law"

Rashid Ramkissoon was the engineer on location at the shoot for the brand new WE TV reality show "Ladies of Law." The show follows four interconnected New York City-based powerful and glamorous African American female lawyers who specialize in entertainment law. 

"Ladies of Law" is produced by Eastern and Monami Entertainment, with Mona Scott-Young as an executive producer for Monami. Rashid previously worked with Mona Scott-Young on her other project on BET, "Being Mona Scott."

Judge Mathis, the Detroit-area district court judge who is well-known for infusing his court sessions with a general dose of humor, was a guest star on set. 

VO for Corner to Corner

This week, we did some VO work for NBC's Corner to Corner. Chris Camilleri engineered the session.

Corner to Corner is an hour-long look into the lives of a diverse group of fighters as they prepare for their PBC on NBC bouts on Saturday June 20th, live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

VO for Madame Alexander

Just in time for the holidays! Earlier this week we were working on some promotional content for the classic baby doll collection company, Madame Alexander. Engineer Russell Castiglione and Sam Palumbo recorded VO for the promo.

Madame Alexander has been around since 1923 and is loved by both children and adult collectors. 

Recording with Dwayne Hill and Simone Dinnerstein for Peg + Cat

We're pleased to be working on PBS KIDS' latest hit show Peg + Cat. Engineer Keith Rigling recorded piano in our mezzanine studio with the lovely Simone Dinnerstein.

Later in the day, the team moved downstairs to record some VO pickups with Dwayne Hill who voices Cat on the show. 

Peg + Cat is an animated series based on the children's book "The Chicken Problem," which was published in 2012.

VO for Ninja Turtles

Booyakasha! Last week we did a Source Connect VO session with Los Angeles for Nickelodeon's Sports Plex Ninja Turtles edition.

The session was for promotional content and featured several different scenes from various episodes of the animated classic. Jake Bolles engineered the session.

Radio interviews with Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright was in the studio this week doing a couple of interviews with a few different radio stations, discussing his new opera, Hadrian, which he just finished. Hadrian is Wainwright's second opera, following Prima Donna, which premiered at the Manchester International Film Festival in 2009.

Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation. Elton John has referred to him as "the greatest songwriter of all time" and he has been praised by the New York Times for his "genuine originality."

ISDN ADR for CBBC's Brain Freeze

Earlier this week, we did ISDN ADR with Ireland for the CBBC children's show Brain Freeze and recorded eight episodes.

Brain Freeze is an educational show that teaches children something interesting in each 10-minute long episode, like what lightning is. Jake Bolles engineered the session.

Radio interviews with Anthony de Mare and Matt Haimovitz

Earlier this month, we had a few renowned contemporary musicians in the studio doing radio interviews with stations all over the country.  

Anthony de Mare

The first being Anthony de Mare, a contemporary pianist whose versatility has inspired the creation of over 60 new works by some of today's most distinguished artists, especially in the speaking-singing piano genre, which he pioneered over 25 years ago with the premiere of Frederic Rzewski's groundbreaking 'De Profundis.' Anthony de Mare has been praised by the New York Times for his "muscularly virtuosic, remarkably uninhibited performance [and] impressive talents."

Matt Haimovitz

The other artist being interviewed was cellist Matt Haimovitz, whose music brings a fresh ear to familiar repertoire, champions new music, and initiates groundbreaking collaborations as well as creating innovative recording projects for Oxingale Records. Through his visionary approach, Matt Haimovitz is re-defining what it means to be an artist in the 21st century. 

Recording for Bring Change 2 Mind fundraising event

Earlier this week, Dubway was on deck at the fundraising event for Bring Change 2 Mind, a charity about bringing awareness to mental illness and erasing the stigmas behind mental illness. Glenn Close organized the charity event, and between the fundraising and auctioning that took place throughout the evening, they raised over a million dollars for the Bring Change 2 Mind organization. 

The performers and audience members included Glenn Close, Wayne Brady, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Bennett, Paul Schafer, Ron Howard, and Martin Short. Dubway's Mike Judeh was there recording all of the artists, multi track.

Bring Change 2 Mind's mission is to end the discrimination surrounding mental illness through widely distributed Public Education Materials based on the latest scientific insights and measured for effectiveness, and to act as a portal to a broad coalition of organizations that provide service, screening, information, support, and treatment for mental illness. For more information check out their website here.

Jen Senko mixing her new film

Jen Senko was in the studio last week mixing her new documentary feature in surround sound. The film is called "The Brainwashing of my Dad" and it investigates right-wing talk radio. Long-time friend of Dubway, Jeff Formosa, was the mixing engineer.

Her new film was the winner of both the 2015 Bertha Foundation Film Grant and the Roy W. Dean Film Grant in 2014. To learn more, check out the website here.

Sound design for Airbnb

Last week, our team was busy handling some sound design work for the new international Airbnb campaign. And it definitely gave us a travel bug! Sam Palumbo engineered.

Emmy Nomination for "SongCraft Presents"

Butter the Children

We're proud to announce that "SongCraft Presents" received an Emmy nomination! Dubway's owner, Al Houghton, was one of the producers on the project and attended the ceremony at the Folk Alliance International fest in St. Louis last week on behalf of the rest of the team, which includes Ben Arthur, Mike Crehore, Matthew Hendershot, Rob Reinhart, Steve Poltz, Dave Simmons, and Justin Bond.

"SongCraft Presents" was featured in the Arts & Entertainment Programs/Special category, and the Emmy ceremony was shown on Kansas City's public television station KCPT.

Al Houghton and Ben Arthur

"SongCraft Presents" is a web series in which featured artists write and record a song in the course of a day with host Ben Arthur. Producers Al Houghton and Mike Crehore then take the song and shape it into a polished studio track. Featured artists on "SongCraft Presents" have included Lera Lynn, Ben Sollee, Sean Rowe, Ximena Sarinana, Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), Vienna Tang, Steve Poltz, and many others.

"SongCraft Presents" is currently working on a year-long multi-format project, Songs of the Road, sponsored by Ford and produced with the syndicated radio program Acoustic Cafe.

Audio post for Flama's "First Taste Fridays"

This past week we were doing post work for the digital network, Flama and their new show "First Taste Fridays" with director Kristopher Knight.

Flama is all about comedy and culture, and aims to capture and celebrate the Latino spirit. 

Location recording at Habitat for Humanity

We were on set all day in Queens at a Habitat for Humanity event with the cast of "Blue Bloods." Rashid Ramkissoon was the A1, handling interviews all day while mixing and booming. The cast of the show was hard at work building houses! Great work!

Voiceover for WBUR and "Modern Love"

The podcast style program on WBUR will feature actors reading these "Modern Love" essays, like Dakota Fanning. Dubway is handling the voiceover recording for the program.

WBUR, Boston's NPR, is partnering with the New York Times to bring the well-known column "Modern Love" to public radio. In the New York Times, "Modern Love" is a series of weekly reader-submitted essays that explore the joys and the tribulations of love.