Is It Summer Yet? (CUwS III)

About a month ago, we were thrilled to have the opportunity to record authors Jeffrey Fox and Robert Reiss reading voiceovers for the audiobook version of their newly published book, The Transformative CEO.  This session marks the 5th time we've recorded Jeffrey reading one of his books; and as usual, we're all feeling a bit smarter and a lot more industrious for the experience. 

We are also very excited to announce that we are working in collaboration with the folks at the Children's Museum in West Hartford, on a brand-new feature for their planetarium that will debut later in 2012.  Although we have been sworn to secrecy regarding the content and theme of the project, I can tell you that it will provide some very cool, exciting and educational insight into the future of our planet (and possibly another one, too).

We recently had the pleasure of working with a few of Hartford's really promising up-and-coming musicians, as the band Little Ugly stepped into the studio to record their newest single "And We Said..." for an upcoming music video!  Little Ugly were winners of the Hartford Advocate's Grand Band Slam "Best Rock Band" for 2011, as well as Hartford Magazine's "Best Musician/Band" in 2012.  Keep an eye (and an ear!) out for this local acoustic rock/folk quartet that can be found playing their ever-expanding repertoire of original music (and some killer covers) nearly every weekend, throughout the Northeast.  
  

Catching Up With Spring - II

The last month at Tapeworks has seen our work featured on a couple of major projects for our friends at LEGO, that you can now see online and in theaters around the country.

Engineers Bill Ahearn and Chris Lennie were hard at work on the score and sound design for a series of videos for the new LEGO Monster Fighters campaign.  The Monster Fighters series features a group of tough, battle-tested heroes working together to defeat the diabolical plans set into motion by a group of insidious villains and monsters such as Frankenstein, Werewolves, Vampires, Mummies and Zombies. 
We had a ghoulishly good time working on a score that integrates current dubstep elements with more classic "B-movie" horror textures and sounds.
"I got a fever.  And the prescription... is more theramin!!"
- Overheard outside our control "Room A" during composition of Monster Fighters theme, April 2012.


After we gathered our courage together, we embarked on the next project: a 2-3 minute Lego Avengers video, in time for the release of the Marvel Avengers film a couple of weeks ago.  Working with the Marvel-sanctioned sound effects library and a host of music cuts from the Avengers movie, Chief Engineer Bill Ahearn put together a stellar soundscape for the video, which features a LEGO-based synopsis of the Hollywood blockbuster itself.

The best part?  You can literally drop in on your favorite local theater to watch it for yourself - our Avengers Lego video is showing as part of the previews for the actual movie in theaters right now!  So even though you've likely seen the movie 3-8 times already (or if you are among the 12 people on earth who haven't seen it yet), there's plenty of time to catch it again if you missed us before. 

Whew!  Time to take a break for the holiday weekend.  Everybody enjoy the (fingers crossed) beautiful weather and extra day of relaxation.  More to catch you up on when we return from the break....

Catching up with Spring I

With summer rapidly approaching, we've been afforded a moment to take a breath, collect ourselves at the keyboard and fill you in on our last few weeks as we prepare for a busy June.

Lift-Off!! 
A couple of posts back, you heard about former Survivor contestant, Terry Dietz, touching down in the studio for a series of voiceover narrations that were going to be featured on the TV show Great Planes.  The show has finally arrived, and the episodes look (and sound!) great. 

Airing Wednesdays at 10pm (Eastern) on the Military Channel, tune in to hear Terry share his extensive aviation knowledge - in perfect clarity - through our beautiful new-ish BAE modular mic pres!




The Big Voice Returns

As the sun shines longer and the days get hotter, anticipation is building for one of Connecticut's biggest annual summer events: The Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, June 18-24. 

The championship has already left its mark on us here; as we recently recorded legendary ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman doing all of his radio voice work for this year's edition of the tournament.  Mr. Berman, a long-time friend of the studio and the Travelers Championship, filled our halls with his instantly-recognizable voice for an afternoon last week. 

You can really feel the studio energy pick up a little when you hear that booming delivery - we're looking forward to hearing his voice on the radio for all-things-Travelers over the next month! 

The tip of the iceberg!

Keep an eye out for our twitter feed and facebook page as we continue to update and inform with renewed vigor. There's lots more to come in the next week!  Our work is showing up all over the place lately: including a worldwide theatrical release, a planetarium show in-the-making, a couple of HUGE video game releases, and much more!  Stay tuned...