RSR254 - Kevin White - Retro Future Music And Theramin For Film & Bands
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Kevin White a Nashville based musician, audio engineer, musicologist, film composer, and audio educator.
As an audio engineer, Kevin has worked with national corporate clients, films, radio, rock bands and gained a reputation for his retro-futurist aesthetics. He has taught classes on mixing and lo-fi production techniques. Kevin is a voting member of the recording academy and works full-time for the audio production college, SAE Institute.
A notable milestone in Kevin's career has been his contributions to the NASA Apollo Flight Journal. His musicology and audio restoration work has contributed to the preservation of American/space flight history as well as expanding the frontiers of musicology.
Kevin was part of the newly-released documentary film Teslafy Me (2019) which presents the history of renewable energy and the authentic story of Nikola Tesla from the perspective of his Balkan homeland. As the film's composer and sound supervisor Kevin specifically used sounds from Tesla's lifetime.
He mixed the instrumentation of an old fashioned Serbian string band with early electronic instruments from the era including the: Theremin, Ondes Martenot, Hammond Novachord, and Hammond Solovox. He also used source samples of vintage equipment including electric arcs, Tesla Coils, and a Bell Labs Voder, in order to create a unique sonic signature for the film.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rock Stars is brought to you by OWC, JZ Microphones, Prisonez, Spectra |
| 0:08.7 | 1964, and API Audio. So get ready to rock. |
| 0:12.8 | A larger perspective on art is that you have to give art enough space to be whatever it wants |
| 0:18.9 | to be. You start off with an idea of what you're going for, but don't force it. |
| 0:23.0 | You know, like say you're working a piece of wood, you're going to have a knot here and there. |
| 0:26.2 | You've got to work around those natural characteristics and not try to make them a blemish, |
| 0:30.8 | but make them a natural feature. |
| 0:32.5 | That's what beauty is. |
| 0:33.5 | It's about framing the natural features that are already there. |
| 0:36.9 | Music It's about framing the natural features that are already there. |
| 0:50.1 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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