"Fall"-ing into great new work!

Election Fever sets in at Tapeworks

It's election season, and that means campaign commercials.... lots and lots of  campaign commercials.  
Tapeworks recently made our contribution to this biennial flurry of advertising when we recorded a new radio spot for Elizabeth Esty last month.  Mrs. Esty is the Democrat nominee running for Congress in Connecticut's 5th congressional district, formerly represented by Senatorial nominee Chris Murphy.  
While we try our best to stay impartial over matters of political preference, Mrs. Esty was extremely professional, pleasant and easy to work with.  So whenever she decides to retire, there's always that voiceover career waiting in the wings!

CBS calling; and we learn a little history 

Today we had the pleasure of working with one of our favorite pros; internationally-acclaimed film and theater actor (and our good friend) Brian Dennehy came in to record lines for his role in the award-winning hit CBS show "The Good Wife".  Episode #406, titled "The Art of War" will feature the audio our Chief Engineer Bill Ahearn recorded with Brian, and it will air on Sunday, November 4th at 9pm (Eastern).     

Another highlight over the last week was having the chance to record a Tony-Award-winning talent for an upcoming multimedia exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  Jefferson Mays dropped by the studio in between performances at the Hartford Stage (where he is currently performing in a month-long run of the musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" - playing eight different roles).  He was delivering a biographical account of Theodore Roosevelt for this new exhibit at the AMNH, and as could be expected, his conduct and performance were the very definition of professional.  
After speaking with an engineer from the Museum, we discovered that our respective mixing environments are slightly different: we have our main control room where the wall are acoustically treated and built from the ground-up for ideal listening... and they have a giant, marble exhibition hall.  They'll have their work cut out for them, as our contribution is to be one of four separate installations running simultaneously in the same hall.
Mr. Mays' run at the Hartford Stage ends November 11th.

Getting "Ugly" Again

This weekend, Engineer Chris Lennie mastered the latest single for local band Little Ugly as they prepare for their upcoming music video premiere party at Arch Street Tavern in Hartford on Friday, November 2nd.  The entire track was recorded here a couple of months ago, and the video was shot recently by director/cinematographer Daniel Salazar III and art director Nina Salazar.  Congratulations to a local band that continues to work as hard as anyone out there while making cool original music.

We've got TONS more coming up in the next few weeks, including some major sound design and music scoring projects -- stay tuned!