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