Kick is a team of talented people led by Greg Smith who do all things sound. We create music, develop sonic branding, craft sound design and provide post for television, film, products and experiences.
Kick is a team of talented people led by Greg Smith who do all things sound. We create music, develop sonic branding, craft sound design and provide post for television, film, products and experiences.
RECENT WORK
Starting with "Interview with a Vampire" , this will appear at the top of every episode of the various upcoming series that AMC is adapting from Anne Rice's stories.
We thought, what's more "New Orleans" than a brass band?
Here it is... we like to call it "the ghost of Louis Armstrong".
We came up with the concept of creating a mashup up of dialog from popular A&E shows and using it as a mnemonic.
They describe themselves as having a "curious spirit and rebellious edge".
We brought the sound of museum - which commemorates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - to life with original period-specific music scores (ragtime piano!), sound design for the various exhibits, immersive sound mixing, and music supervision.
The film is projected onto four 14-foot-high plinths constructed to suggest the rubble left behind after the night’s violence.
Sound, which we mixed, is delivered through a six-speaker "inverse surround" system that places the visitors in the midst of the chaos. We also created the sound design and score.
All of the original interviews were decades-old field recordings so extensive audio restoration was required.
"Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie" - Clarence “Pine Top” Smith
"Jim Crow Blues" - Lead Belly
"Let the Good Times Roll" - Louis Jordan
"Black Brown and White" - Big Bill Broonzy
"In the Mood" - Ernie Fields Orchestra
"How I Got Over" - Mahalia Jackson
"Keep On Pushing" - The Impressions
"Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing" - Kim Weston
"What’s Going On" - Marvin Gaye
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" - Gil Scot Heron
"You Dropped A Bomb On Me" - The Gap Band
"Fight The Power" - Public Enemy
As music supervisors we put together a playlist of songs and negotiated clearances.
Here are a few of the songs we picked
MOREWORK
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Original Music / Sonic Branding / Audio Strategy / Music Supervision
Mixing / Sound Design / Voiceover Casting / Voiceover Recording
Original Music
Sonic Branding
Audio Strategy
Music Supervision
Mixing
Sound Design
Voiceover Casting
Voiceover Recording