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Kick is an award-winning 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.

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GREENWOOD RISING

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GREENWOOD RISING MUSEUM

Greenwood Rising is a truly unique project we partnered on with the NY design firms Local Projects and Loyalkaspar.

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.

This museum's main installation brings to life the horrors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, immersing visitors in the minute-by-minute accounts from survivors.

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.

AUDIO RESEARCH AND RESTORATION

Since there were not a lot of photos or original film records available, we were tasked with weaving the story together using archival audio interviews of survivors. We sorted through over twelve hours of first-person audio accounts from survivors to create the narration behind the main exhibit's 6-minute film.

All of the original interviews were decades-old field recordings so extensive audio restoration was required.

SURVIVOR INTERVIEWS:

Original:

After restoration:

"There is a Green Field Far Away" - Hattie King Reavis
"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

For the final exhibit - called "Changing Fortunes"- the museum wanted a soundtrack of iconic songs. A collection that could carry you from 1921 all the way through the 80's and reflect the struggles and triumphs that Greenwood and its people have experienced along the way.

As music supervisors we put together a playlist of songs and negotiated clearances.

Here are a few of the songs we picked

MUSIC SUPERVISION

Tulsa World: Greenwood Rising Takes Your Breath Away...

Artnet: Review

Forbes: Greenwood Rising Shares Two Stories Of Tragedy In Tulsa...

PRESS & AWARDS

NY Times: Best Art Exhibitions of the Year

USA Today: Year's Best New Attractions

Adventure.com: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of ‘Black Wall Street

NY Times: Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa's Tragic History...