Eclectic Soundtrax Podcast - #69 w/ Nathan Ruyle - a podcast by Skunk Manhattan & Victor Ramos

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On this episode we're joined by Nathan Ruyle from his new post sound facility in Burbank, CA. Nathan is a sound designer, supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer and founder of the independent post-production sound company, This is Sound Design. He has created original sound for more than 150 projects, including feature films, indie pictures, television shows, documentaries and more, in a career spanning over 20 years. Many of Nathan's works have premiered at major film festivals around the world and have even received awards via of Sundance, Cannes and SXSW. The television series, Every Act of Life was nominated for an Emmy in 2020 and most recently the films I love My Dad, a dramatic comedy starring Patton Oswalt, and Crows are White, a world-spanning documentary that starts as a vérité examination of a secretive sect of Buddhist monks, premiered at SXSW 2022.

After attaining his undergraduate degree at the Southern Illinois University, Nathan received an MFA in Sound Design and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts in 2008. He then taught for 7 years as a member of the CalArts film and animation faculty while building his clientele and has become a frequent lecturer at the American Film Institute. TiSD continues to build relationships with filmmakers and digital media creators via design-centric audio post-production.

We learned a lot on this episode about the origins, history, and evolution of "sound design". This non-silent, unsung hero plays an integral and vital role in film, TV, etc. and Nathan's state-of-the-art studios in both New York and Los Angeles offer cutting edge technologies in this field. His new Burbank facility includes 3 mix stages, emulating different rooms and listening environments, as well as ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) and Foley recording studios. Nathan discusses influences and sheds light on some sound design pioneers who have been integral to the success of ground-breaking films and the evolution of the motion picture in general. Nathan has several published articles and interviews where he discusses the importance of this "invisible art".

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