7 great new podcast episodes: hear about TikTok’s audio logo, the western soundscapes of “Lawman: Bass Reeves”, immersive audio, perseverance in a sonic life, and much more

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For many people that work in sound design, their dream job would be to work on a western. There are the guns, the horses, the creaky floors, and most of all the dusty wide open spaces.  They all provide a great playground to create compelling sound, to support the stories of lawmen and the outlaws they seek to bring to justice. So we got the sound team behind the new western series “Lawman: Bass Reeves”, to take us through how they made this series sound so great. Dialog & Music Re-Recording MIxer Lindsey Alvarez, Effects & Foley Re-Recording Mixer Brad Zoern and Supervising Sound Editor George Haddad, tell us why they love working in this genre.

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In this episode of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel and Monica Bolles are joined by the Grammy nominated music producer, recording and mixing engineer – Ryan Ulyate from Topanga, US. Ryan Ulyate has been recording, mixing and producing music for over 40 years with credits on over 120 records working with artists such as ELO, George Harrison, Mick Fleetwood and many others. In 2004 he began a long relationship with Tom Petty, recording, mixing and co-producing several albums. Starting in 2020 Ryan began remixing albums from the Petty catalogue in Dolby Atmos, including Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Greatest Hits. Ryan talks about his long-standing career in the music industry, his recently released Grammy-nominated immersive solo album Act-3, and we talk about music mixing in Dolby Atmos.

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Thank you for a year of listening to Field & Foley! As a special treat, here is a compilation of a recording from each of our guests this past year (Thanks to Katharina for the idea!). And the first three people that send us a message with the episode number of the last recording in this compilation will win a special prize! Sit back, relax, and enjoy this auditory journey through the highlights of our first year. And as always – thank you for listening!

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Alex Haralson, production sound mixer based out of Knoxville, Tennessee, joins us again to catch up on new projects and how the strikes and industry shift has affected his work. Alex was originally on episode 92 so check that one out too. His website is https://www.sonolocus.com/

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Today’s guest is Carla Patullo, Grammy-winning songwriter and composer based out of Los Angeles. She has worked on projects such as Maxine on Disney Plus, films like The Ignition, and more recently her personal project and Grammy-winning album, So She Howls.

In this episode, we talk about how Carla’s career as a songwriter and composer, how she likes to experiment in her day-to-day work, the importance of slowing down, her fight with breast cancer, and so much more.

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Showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff — co-creators of “Game of Thrones” — and Alexander Woo (“True Blood”) join us to talk about their epic new science fiction series: “3 Body Problem” on Netflix. Rounding out the discussion are: Director of Photography Jonathan FreemanSound Designer Paula FairfieldSupervising Sound Editor Tim KimmelEditor Michael Ruscio The show is based on a series of bestselling books by Liu Cixin — which, famously, have been described as “unadaptable” to film & TV, due to the complexities of particle physics, which are at the heart of the premise of the story.

“We’re not physicists. So we needed to — first and foremost — put it in language that we understood. And luckily, we had a good amount of help doing this. Both the books themselves are written for people who are not scientists, and we had Matt Kenzie, our physics advisor, and Bobak Ferdowsi, our JPL space and rocketry advisor, who helped us translate. We listened to them answer our questions. We listened to them answer the cast’s questions. And the way they explain things to people like us gave us a template for the way we could explain things to the people watching. And one thing you do have is you have imagery which can really — even if you don’t entirely understand all the explanation and scientific logic behind what you’re seeing — give you a flavor for what it means and how it feeds into the story that you’re seeing.”
— D.B. Weiss, Co-Showrunner, Executive Producer, and Writer, “3 Body Problem”

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TikTok’s sonic logo is one of the fastest growing sonic logos in history. Today, that little sound is being heard millions of times a day on apps like Instagram, Reddit and Youtube… but creating it wasn’t easy. To make it, the creative team went through thousands of iterations, executed a covert marketing strategy, and fought through a final debate about a single note. Featuring Roscoe Williamson and Aifric Lennon from MassiveMusic.

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