Sound and Motion Studios

10 Year Anniversary

Thank you to all our clients for your continued support! Here's a clip looking back at the past 10 years :) Much love to you all.

On the video side of things, we have recently finished working on the African Cypher Doccie along with the guys from Fly on the Wall. It’s had such an incredible response! Winning the viewer’s choice award at Encounters Film Festival 2012. Such a great project to be a part of!

CURRENT MUSIC PRODUCTIONS

The Sound & Motion crew is super stoked to have worked with some really awesome people the past few months!

We started the year with quite a bang, starting off with two artists we’ve worked with several times in the past. It’s always lovely to have Lisa Bauer around. She has been working on a new single, where she features on the track as the drummer.

“The African Cypher” wins Best South African film Award at Encounters Documentary festival

Fly on the Wall productions is responsible for yet another magnificent tale of triumph with their uplifting and personable depiction of the dance cultures that are born and bred on the streets of South Africa. “The African Cypher” charmed the hearts and pounded its rhythmic message into the audiences of the 14th Annual Encounters Documentary Film festival. We are so proud to be a part of the team that contributed to this success having mixed the film in our cinema suite at our Cape Town Studio.

RETRIBUTION WINS SAFTA AWARD FOR SOUND

On Saturday 10th of March, Simon Ratcliffe represented the Sound Team for the feature film Retribution at the 6th Annual SAFTA Awards --and came home with the coveted Golden Horn. The accolade for Best Sound Design for a Feature Film is highly sought after and the Team, a combined effort of Sound & Motion Studios and Pressure Cooker Studios, is absolutely thrilled.

A sneek peek at the new Johannesburg facility

We have some exciting new developments on the way in Johannesburg. We are in the process of setting up a new production hub in Bryanston with amazing new partnerships and incredible new facilities which include a 30+ seater final mix cinema, a state of the art Foley stage, ADR and music tracking rooms, and most importantly, a 50 square meter pub for a bit of R&R......

Watch this space!

Lark In Studio

Since 2005, multi-award winning South African rock-electro group Lark has been a regular fixture at Sound & Motion Studios. In fact, it was during one of these studio sessions in the early days that they asked Fuzzy if he would be keen to join on bass as well as sound engineering duties.

The last month has seen step 2 in the mixing phase of their new album, Gong Is Struck, with the final stage and tentative release set for June.

BLAZE BLACKHEART-UK HIP HOP

Recently we have been very lucky to have Blaze Blackheart, soulful singer and hip-hop artist, down from the UK producing his album with us.

After initial meetings we enlisted the production services of Adriaan Hellenberg who is co-producing with Blaze. Matt has been doing all kinds of recording (and the odd drumming session!) with mixing privileges going to Fuzzy.

The album is well under way and we hope to get permission to post a little teaser soon. For now, you can check Blaze out at www.blazeblackheart.com

SAFTA Nomination for Best Feature Film Sound

Last week we were absolutely surprised and delighted to be nominated for our sound mix for the feature film Retribution.

The film has done really well and has 5 other nominations including 2 Best Actor nominations, Best Editor, Best Writing Team and Best Cinematographer.

Fuzzy in LA, cinema mixing part 5

Hey all, so here’s my final entry in what I can only describe as one hell of a ride!
Last Friday I spent the day at Sony Pictures and Saturday was spent picking up the last few bits for the studio, with a spot of theatre and wine tasting in between for good measure.