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Sound Design: Glenn Beck’s “The Christmas Sweater” (video)
Leading up to The Christmas Sweater, Glenn and I worked on creating a very subtle environment of sound design throughout the show. He wanted something which wasn’t necessarily noticeable at all times but simply added a sense of immersion for the audience - to place them in the same “space” as the character. There were also some points which he and I thought needed to be obvious and larger than life, such as brief flashbacks, which should rip the audience out of their current environment immediately (as it would happen inside the main character’s mind). One of the larger-than-life scenes was the storm. Since this is a pivotal and climactic moment in the show it need to envelop the audience. It was by far one of the most challenging scenes to design. Here’s a little insight to the process…
With the power of the storm in mind we decided each venue needed sub-woofers. Glenn wanted to let the audience feel the growl of the storm just as much as they heard it; I kept this in mind when designing the elements. There are shrieks, growls, moans and tones as well as an arsenal of wind which make up the tracks of the storm. I used my dog growling, an angry cat in a cage (which nearly took my finger off during the recording process, ha), placed mics in my AC return ducts, inside the freezer and out the window of my car. There was wind from my back yard, neighborhood, a park and a couple thunder storms which passed through during the six months of gathering sounds leading up to the show. My good friend and contributing sound designer, Eric Chase, ran through a dense area of trees, bushes and weeds. He even took a spill on his bike in gravel - no pain, no storm.
The storm is about 8 minutes long but took two weeks to build (not including time spent gathering sound) and contains nearly 3,000 edits across 34 tracks. Those were then stemmed down to about 8 tracks for the live playback system allowing the wind, growls, rumbles and debris to be mixed live according to each venue’s acoustics. Here is a short video taken on the road by Glenn Beck staffer, Joe Kerry.
Check out more pictures and video on the tour blog at glennbeck.com.
Noise Freak will undoubtedly be involved in the next Glenn Beck project. That’s all I can say for now but stay tuned.
Nick
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