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.