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AES Taps Leslie Ann Jones to Deliver Keynote at AAPR Conference

New York, NY (April 24, 2023)—Leslie Ann Jones of Skywalker Sound will current the keynote handle on the AES International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation and Restoration, going down June 1–3, 2023, on the U.S. Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia.

Jones’ Keynote speech is titled “Why It Matters: Reflections on Creating, Preserving and Valuing Music.” Reinforcing the mission and objectives of the Conference, Jones states, “Our recorded historical past is our future. Whether an indie artist’s first report or the magnificent Star Wars soundtracks, audio belongings are belongings and all have worth.”

Jones will be a part of different high audio engineers and archiving professionals to current the newest applied sciences and handle challenges within the area, providing methods and insights to attendees on preserving the world’s wealthy audio heritage.

The U.S. Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is among the world’s premier energetic archives of audio-visual historical past. During the AAPR convention, workshops, shows and discussions will handle essential preservation points, together with immersive audio belongings, and give attention to methods to help and encourage collaboration and interoperability inside the preservation, restoration and archiving group, and between that group and people holding mental property belongings to protect and monetize.

To spherical off the three-day program, the Conference will shut with a buffet-style open-grill barbecue dinner the place attendees can socialize and luxuriate in dwell music, out of doors projected silent motion pictures and a few glasses of wine within the bucolic farm setting of the Mountain Run Winery, positioned 5 minutes from downtown Culpeper.

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SNEAK PEEK: Sound of ‘WandaVision’

Take a peek at the Sound for WandaVision panel at Mix Sessions Emmy Awards Season, featuring the Skywalker Sound team of Danielle Dupre, Kim Foscato, Steve Orlando and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle. Moderated by Jennifer Walden, this is just one of the presentations featured at Mix Sessions: Emmy Awards Season, where Mix sits down with audio post teams behind some of the year’s best work in sound for television.

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Pros behind the sound and music of some of this year’s biggest television hits will divulge all when they sit down Wednesday, May 26 for the free virtual event, Mix Sessions Emmy Awards Season.

Mix Sessions Emmy Awards Season Set for Wednesday

The free, one-day event will include behind-the-scenes interviews with the leading supervising sound editors, sound designers, re-recording mixers, composers, production sound mixers, editors, technologists and creative talent vying for this year’s Best Sound awards. Meet the women and men who tackled sound and music for Wandavision, Small Axe, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, The Underground Railroad and Sylvie’s Love.

In addition to a series of profiles on the year’s best dramatic and documentary programs, Mix Sessions: Emmy Awards Season will feature two special roundtable discussions—The Documentary Score: Emotional Reality and Sound Editing and Mixing: Comedy, Drama and In-Between.

Cinnafilm Launches Skywalker Sound Tools

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Skywalker Sound

Albuquerque, NM (October 22, 2020)—In partnership with Skywalker Sound, Cinnafilm has announced a new toolset for its media processing ecosystem with the introduction of Skywalker Sound Tools for the  PixelStrings media conversion SaaS.

The tools provide a streamlined audio pipeline experience, according to Cinnafilm, combining audio processing capabilities with automated, intelligent orchestration that is expected to reduce audio workflow complexity for professional content delivery. Skywalker Sound Tools is available exclusively within PixelStrings cloud and on-premises.

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“Studios, broadcasters, and other content distributors must fulfill myriad delivery standards and formats, and content creators want their visual and aural artistic intent to remain intact from creation to distribution,” says Cinnafilm COO Ernie Sanchez. “To meet these needs, we built PixelStrings to provide sensible, scalable, enterprise-grade media processing and conversions. The integration of Skywalker Sound Tools makes PixelStrings the most inclusive conversion system for top-tier industry deliverables.”

The tools’ proprietary signal processing and intelligent orchestration technology allow the mastering engineer to conduct channel mapping, downmixing, retiming, segmenting, and loudness correction within the automated workflow. The process avoids external DAWs and other applications, says the developer, which can introduce the challenges of operator error, duplicate media, digital audio corruption, incompatibilities and, perhaps most importantly, inefficiency.

According to Josh Lowden, general manager of Skywalker Sound, “We’ve been working for several years to develop strategic software tools that leverage Skywalker’s core strengths and serve our community of filmmakers. We are thrilled to work with Cinnafilm to bring these tools to the market.”

Cinnafilm • www.cinnafilm.com

Skywalker Sound • www.skysound.com

Leslie Ann Jones, dCS Legends | The Vinyl Anachronist

With the first round of our coverage of the dCS Legends series, I did an interesting and possibly misguided thing. When I mentioned the recording engineers honored by dCS, I’d trot out their Grammy-winning LP and listen to it. Why would I do that when we’re talking about dCS, a company at the pinnacle of digital playback? Unfortunately, I still haven’t had seat time with the dCS Bartok that the rest of our staff adored, so I have to come up with a purer way to acknowledge the work of the next honoree–Leslie Ann Jones, Director of Music and Scoring at Skywalker Sound. It just makes sense to listen to the Grammy-winning output of Leslie Ann Jones by streaming Qobuz, especially when you consider the Skywalker Ranch technology that has flowed into the entertainment industry. (Does anyone else miss getting blasted by that THX demo in big movie theaters?) But when you look at the Grammy winners, you’ll notice a lack of the bombastic: Alben Berg: Lyric Suite by Kronos Quartet, Dianne Reeves’ Goodnight and Good Luck, and three other mentioned above. I own the Alban Berg album on CD, but as I mentioned I decided to stream it. I […]

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