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The
Score Recording Sessions
Sonart Studio
Mt Tremper, New York
April 1-8 |
The orchestral score for the film was
recorded during the first week of April, 2000 at Sonart Recording Studio, just outside of
Woodstock, New York. Due to budget constraints, much of the score was synthesized,
but several live musicians added their talent and performances to the music.
Mixing and postproduction was done at Sonart, Monk Music (Easthampton, NY) and
at Pete Levin Music (New York, NY).  Among the source music
elements,
Pete created a fictitious top-40 radio station, then recorded the station IDs,
DJ announcer and records that are heard throughout the film. In this sound
byte, the disc jockey is "Big Al" Cagan, and music
clips are by Don't Ask and Jon Paris. Click on the
WZLO logo to hear some of the station programming in RealAudio.
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Outside
of Woodstock, nestled between a mountain and the Esopus River,
the main building at Sonart
Recording Studio |
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The main
room at Sonart. At the right, studio owner and percussionist Ken Lovelett.
Ken
designs and builds percussion instruments that are distributed by American Percussion.
Many of
his creations are the studio. |
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In the
control room: Space got a bit tight when Pete's synthesizer racks moved in.
At
the far right, Sonart's new maintenance tech gives the OK. |
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Engineer
Cynthia Daniels came up from New York for the week to track and mix the orchestral score. |
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Cynthia
with Ken Lovelett |
with
Pete |
with engineer
Ray Salas |
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Taking a
breather from the Lion King, guitarist Kevin Kuhn did all the guitar work on the score. |
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Providing
the main solo voice of the score, Steve Gorn played an assortment of Bansuri flutes. |
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Bassist
Tony Levin lays down the bottom. You can never have too many bald guys around! |
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Ken
Lovelett playing percussion grooves on a Lapdrum, one of his own creations. |
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Pete at the board |
with Tony |
at Sonart's Steinway |
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Things
are pretty sociable around Woodstock. Among the guests who dropped in - from the
left, drummer Jimmy Cobb, composer Chris Andromidas, guitarist Vinnie Pasternack, and
guitarist Mike DeMicco. |
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Some days
were sunny and in the 60s, some days it snowed. On one of the nice days -
relaxing on the deck, Gregg Schultz on the left, Zelimo director Aleks Rosenberg on the
right. In the center, Aleks, Ralph Poppo, Pete and Ken Lovelett shoot the breeze. |
