Wallykazam! is nominated for a 2016 Daytime Emmy! The show has been nominated several categories including Outstanding Pre-School Children's Animated Program, and Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program.
Congratulations to Wallykazam! Creator/Executive Producer Adam Peltzman, Co-Executive Producers Koyalee Chanda, and Dave Palmer, and Producer Sara Kamen - what a crew! Dub-hug!
Peg + Cat is nominated for a 2016 daytime Emmy! The show is nominated for several categories including Outstanding Pre-School Children's Animated Program, Outstanding Music Direction and Composition, and Outstanding Original Song.
Dubway had the opportunity to work PBS Music Supervisor Steven Rebollido, and Music Director J. Walter Hawkes when they come in to record in the Mezzanine for Peg + Cat. Congratulations to our talented friends at PBS!
For the past month several of our engineers have collaborated to dub a foreign film. The three hour film was originally in Mandarin Chinese and dubbed in English. Dubway produced the project, providing script adaptation for lip-sync, casting the VO talent, hiring the director, and supplying all recording and ancillary audio services.
Engineer Sam Palumbo got to record for the popular podcast series, the James Altucher Show. The show features different guests each week that have specialized insight into the professional world. Each guest has talked about their successes and how they've achieved them.
James Altucher is a prominent American entrepreneur. He has helped establish over 20 companies and began podcasting in 2014.
Engineer Adrian Thorstensen mixed the critically acclaimed documentary ‘Holler if You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church’. The film was written and directed by Clay Cane and had the honor of being screened at the White House for Black History Month in 2016. The film was accompanied by a discussion on race and the LGBTQ community. Holler If You Hear Me has been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism.
From left to right: Jennifer Choi Violin I, Mary Rowell Violin II, Lev Zurbin Viola, and Wendy Law Cello
Craig Pallett was the studio last month with a beautiful string quartet. Pallett was recording for his upcoming album of original compositions. The album features a string quartet along with elegant marimba.
The creators of the PBS Kids show, Peg + Cat, had an excellent time recording in our Mezzanine Studio this month. Engineer Adrian Thorstensen had the opportunity to work with the music director for the show J. Walter Hawkes, and record the NYC based mariachi band, Flor De Toloache.
Peg + Cat is a popular children’s television show based on the book “The Chicken Problem”. The show emphasizes math skills for 3 to 5 year olds and seeks to inspire a child’s natural curiosity.
Flor De Toloache was the musical feature on this episode of Peg + Cat. The all female mariachi band tours regularly, you can see them at performances from the Brooklyn Bowl to the 2016 Latin Grammys.
Jake Robards
This month National Geographic came in to record VO for How Dogs got their Shapes. Engineer, Jake Bolles, got to hunt with the hounds while recording and editing audio for the show.
Narrated by Jake Robards, the 45 minute segment shows how man’s best friend has evolved through history. How Dogs Got their Shapes will air on National Geographic in 2016.
This week Adrian Thorstensen got to record ADR for the fantasy film, Tower of Silence, working with the film's director, Erik Flynn Patton. Patton cofounded Palmarium LLC, a company in Long Island committed to bringing a unique vision to independent film.
Tower of Silence is set In New Netherland colony, where three young heroes set out to rescue their mentor from the clutches of a mysterious evil. The film is set to release in October 2016.
Filmmaker Larry Fessenden of Glass Eye Pix was in the studio recording a version of Ave Maria for the upcoming feature "Stray Bullets" by his son, Jake Fessenden. Lucy Dhegrae sang a wonderful version, worthy of the death scene in this bloody and riotous film noir.
If you've seen the trailer for the new film "The Revenant" then you've heard music from John Luther Adams' Become Ocean, which was mixed and mastered right here at Dubway by Nathaniel Reichman.
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu (of "Birdman" and "Biutiful") knew he wanted Become Ocean in his new film. The music is in the trailer and is also the score for the incredibly ambitious opening scenes in which DiCaprio and his men are under attack from Native Americans.
Become Ocean was recorded in Seattle with the Seattle Symphony for Cantaloupe Music.
Rashid Ramkissoon was the engineer on location at the shoot for the brand new WE TV reality show "Ladies of Law." The show follows four interconnected New York City-based powerful and glamorous African American female lawyers who specialize in entertainment law.
"Ladies of Law" is produced by Eastern and Monami Entertainment, with Mona Scott-Young as an executive producer for Monami. Rashid previously worked with Mona Scott-Young on her other project on BET, "Being Mona Scott."
Judge Mathis, the Detroit-area district court judge who is well-known for infusing his court sessions with a general dose of humor, was a guest star on set.
This week, we did some VO work for NBC's Corner to Corner. Chris Camilleri engineered the session.
Corner to Corner is an hour-long look into the lives of a diverse group of fighters as they prepare for their PBC on NBC bouts on Saturday June 20th, live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Just in time for the holidays! Earlier this week we were working on some promotional content for the classic baby doll collection company, Madame Alexander. Engineer Russell Castiglione and Sam Palumbo recorded VO for the promo.
Madame Alexander has been around since 1923 and is loved by both children and adult collectors.
We're pleased to be working on PBS KIDS' latest hit show Peg + Cat. Engineer Keith Rigling recorded piano in our mezzanine studio with the lovely Simone Dinnerstein.
Later in the day, the team moved downstairs to record some VO pickups with Dwayne Hill who voices Cat on the show.
Peg + Cat is an animated series based on the children's book "The Chicken Problem," which was published in 2012.
Booyakasha! Last week we did a Source Connect VO session with Los Angeles for Nickelodeon's Sports Plex Ninja Turtles edition.
The session was for promotional content and featured several different scenes from various episodes of the animated classic. Jake Bolles engineered the session.
Rufus Wainwright was in the studio this week doing a couple of interviews with a few different radio stations, discussing his new opera, Hadrian, which he just finished. Hadrian is Wainwright's second opera, following Prima Donna, which premiered at the Manchester International Film Festival in 2009.
Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation. Elton John has referred to him as "the greatest songwriter of all time" and he has been praised by the New York Times for his "genuine originality."
Earlier this week, we did ISDN ADR with Ireland for the CBBC children's show Brain Freeze and recorded eight episodes.
Brain Freeze is an educational show that teaches children something interesting in each 10-minute long episode, like what lightning is. Jake Bolles engineered the session.
Earlier this month, we had a few renowned contemporary musicians in the studio doing radio interviews with stations all over the country.
Anthony de Mare
The first being Anthony de Mare, a contemporary pianist whose versatility has inspired the creation of over 60 new works by some of today's most distinguished artists, especially in the speaking-singing piano genre, which he pioneered over 25 years ago with the premiere of Frederic Rzewski's groundbreaking 'De Profundis.' Anthony de Mare has been praised by the New York Times for his "muscularly virtuosic, remarkably uninhibited performance [and] impressive talents."
Matt Haimovitz
The other artist being interviewed was cellist Matt Haimovitz, whose music brings a fresh ear to familiar repertoire, champions new music, and initiates groundbreaking collaborations as well as creating innovative recording projects for Oxingale Records. Through his visionary approach, Matt Haimovitz is re-defining what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.
Earlier this week, Dubway was on deck at the fundraising event for Bring Change 2 Mind, a charity about bringing awareness to mental illness and erasing the stigmas behind mental illness. Glenn Close organized the charity event, and between the fundraising and auctioning that took place throughout the evening, they raised over a million dollars for the Bring Change 2 Mind organization.
The performers and audience members included Glenn Close, Wayne Brady, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Bennett, Paul Schafer, Ron Howard, and Martin Short. Dubway's Mike Judeh was there recording all of the artists, multi track.
Bring Change 2 Mind's mission is to end the discrimination surrounding mental illness through widely distributed Public Education Materials based on the latest scientific insights and measured for effectiveness, and to act as a portal to a broad coalition of organizations that provide service, screening, information, support, and treatment for mental illness. For more information check out their website here.