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Music for Video: Abandoned Soviet Bases in the DDR
While I was an intern at Queuepolitely Films in London (you can read about that in an earlier entry here) I was asked to write some music for this video that the director had shot in Russia, at two abandoned DDR-era Soviet Bases.
I was more than happy to do so, and you can see (and hear!) the results above. I knew the director was a fan of post-rock, so I leaned in that direction.
I’m finally opening up my online beat store as DEADW. I’ve been honing these tracks for a long time, and I’m ecstatic to finally be releasing them.
The concept of DEADW is to create unique, dark, warped but weirdly club-friendly hip hop instrumentals for rapping on. There are currently eight tracks online, but I’m hoping to release more soon.
Listen to the full playlist here.
Litter Box Sessions: Boagrius - Hand in the Jar
For several months now, my old roommates in Lowell, Massachusetts have been shooting, recording, mixing and mastering live sessions in the basement of our shared apartment building. Not long ago, I was asked to handle the second half of that equation (the mixing and mastering) for two of those sessions, and this video is my favorite of all of the tracks I worked on.
As I stated on my upload of their single Screaming Eyeballs, you can really tell that these guys are playing from the hearts. I was very happy to get a chance to work on their stuff once more.
Demo Reel: April 2016
This is my latest demo reel, featuring an assortment of the music I’ve recorded, mixed, produced, and performed over the last couple of years, compiled in April. See the track listing below for credits!
1. Tranen - Bloom   Co-composed, produced, recorded, mixed, mastered 2. DEADW - ICE ART   Composed, produced, mixed, mastered 3. Boagrius - Hand in the Jar (Live)   Mixed, mastered 4. Sean Adam Boucher - Light Evasion   Produced, composed, mixed, mastered 5. Hollow Ground - Ill Fate (Mix)   Mixed, mastered 6. Boagrius - Screaming Eyeballs   Recorded, mixed, mastered 7. DEADW - TURN   Composed, produced, mixed, mastered 8. Landing Feet First - Answering Machine   Recorded, mixed, mastered 9. Sean Adam Boucher - Abandoned   Composed, produced, mixed, mastered 10. DEADW - UNTWIST   Composed, produced, mixed, mastered 11. Hours On End - Pretty In Napalm   Recorded, mixed, mastered 12. Revirescent - Only You   Recorded, composed, produced, mixed, mastered 13. Lynne Payette - Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria (Britten)   Recorded with Jamie Tagg, 2013 Hot Springs Music Festival   Recorded, mixed, mastered 14. Porcupine Tree - Where We Would Be (Soundalike Cover)   Recorded, produced, mixed, mastered 15. Sean Adam Boucher - Phantom Economy   Composed, produced, mixed, mastered 16. Paula Bujes, Pedro Huff, Michael Gurt - Cafe Music, mvmt. III (Schoenfield)   Recorded with Jamie Tagg, 2013 Hot Springs Music Festival   Recorded, mixed, mastered 17. Alicia Jen Cox & Jay Kohler - Too Soon to Fall   Recorded, mixed, mastered 18. Coalesced - Channeling Aether/Ouroboros   Composed, produced, mixed, mastered Copyright Sean Adam Boucher © 2016 [email protected]
On My Internship in London
From October of 2015 until the end of January 2016, I was realizing a very special opportunity. After what must have been two or three months of searching for an internship with which to complete my degree in Sound Recording Technology at UMass Lowell, I finally decided to cross the ocean and work with Queuepolitely Films. Queuepolitely is a documentary production company specializing in films about finance, corruption, statecraft, and the mechanics driving the world toward not-so-affable ends today.
Since it’s a small company, I had a very direct hand in the work, which mostly consisted of creating The Spider’s Web, Queuepolitely’s newest film (expect it around summer 2016). I was generally placed in charge of the realm of audio, so I would handle audio-related concerns whenever they arose. I assisted with conducting interviews (listening to the audio, minding the camera, adjusting camera settings, etc.), pre-mixed and cleaned up interview audio (noise removal, compression, equalization), helped shoot a lot of b-roll (architecture, people, scenery), wrote/produced/mixed music for one of Queuepolitely’s short videos, worked on the graphic design for the film (you can see the main design I came up with at the top of this post), helped write and send emails to possible sources of funding, conducted one interview in New York City when I got back to the US, and, finally, at the end, got hired to compose the soundtrack for the film, which I have since worked on a lot! I’m extremely excited to be creating the soundtrack for this film, and it was a great way to end the internship.
It was a great four months. I got everything I wanted out of it. After four years of focusing mostly on music, I made the very conscious decision to try and expand my horizons by working for a documentary production company, and I wanted that documentary production company to be doing something important. Queuepolitely was exactly the type of company I had in mind, and it was great to be able to explore London for four months on top of it.
Boagrius - Screaming Eyeballs
Working on Screaming Eyeballs with Boagrius was basically the last thing I did at UMass Lowell, so it holds a sort of special place in my heart. I actually adore this song, and I had a fantastic time recording, mixing, and mastering it. Boagrius really digs in and plays from the heart, and you can hear that very clearly.
Video: Audio for Visuals Final: Lion’s Mane & VHS Tape Scene
This is the final project file that I submitted for my Audio for Visuals course at UMass Lowell. We were assigned to select a clip of 3-5 minutes in length and completely re-create, and sometimes re-imagine, the audio for that scene. This included sourcing and recording sound effects, Foley, dialog, and music, then mixing it all down to a finished product. It was a long but deeply rewarding, and fun, process. Hopefully that shows!
Although much of the audio in this video is my own, I do not own or claim to own the rights to Steven Universe, the music of Stars of the Lid, or some of the sound effects employed in this video.
Graphic Design Mini-Portfolio
I thought it would be a good idea to display my (perhaps modest) graphic design skills, especially after having to make several functional posters and logos for both the UML AES chapter and the UML Contemporary Electronic Ensemble. I'm putting this on display mostly to demonstrate that I have a visual sensibility and that I enjoy crafting posters, logos, shirts, and who-knows-what-else. It is not intended to be a centerpiece of my portfolio, by any means, since I do not consider myself a graphic designer, but I felt it was collectively worth a modest mention.
Video: An Argument For Veganism
Before I finished my video production classes, I wanted to make at least one fairly intensive documentary-style production, complete with numerous interviews, voice-over, and original music. This is the product of that effort. I have kicked myself multiple times over thinking that I could get away with using the microphone that I did when recording the interviews--it’s an Oktava MK-012, and it’s a great microphone, but not for this application. I should have gone for a lavaliere. Lesson learned (see UML FREE)! Aside from that hiccup, I think this project came out quite well, and I’m excited to have done something fairly lengthy about a subject I care about. My hope is that it might play some small role in helping people think more critically about animal rights in today’s society. I’m really proud to present this!
Video: UML FREE
For this assignment, I decided to try and create a promotional video for a student organization on campus, something short and informative. My good friend, seen in the video, was open to my suggestion of making one about FREE, a student-run organization focusing on feminist issues. It was really interesting to see how creating something purely informative like this differs from creating a more personally artistic project. Both are equally satisfying, if for different reasons. I especially enjoy the opportunity to write music for projects like these. I’m quite happy with the results and I hope that FREE utilizes the video to earn new members!
Video: TRAUMA 7
In this project, I wanted to experiment with camera usage, editing, and aesthetics. My goal was to embody this music as completely as I could, visually, attempting to create something highly visceral and, like the music, linear in emotion–something unencumbered by intellectualism (at least in experience) and expressionistic, an artistic hammer smashing glass. I chose the music in part because it inspires me and in part because I thought cutting video to it would be an interesting challenge. I was lucky enough to recruit a highly expressive classmate to be the main feature of the video. Overall, I’m very happy with the results.
Jay Kohler - Through the Blinds
In addition to recording Alicia and Jay as a duo (see earlier post "Too Soon to Fall"), Jay also requested that I record two of his original piano pieces. I'm really fond of the way they came out--warm, glassy, simple, beautiful.
This album artwork is an unrelated painting by Jakub Schikaneder.
Alicia Jen Cox & Jay Kohler - Too Soon to Fall
Another project we were assigned last semester was to record something--it could have been anything--live to two tracks (left and right). The assignment was to use nothing but hardware effects, but for this version I did do some processing to the recording after the fact. Alicia and Jay are both great musicians from Boston!
Video: moss & vine
I was enrolled in a video production class last semester, and we were assigned two main projects: one was a music video (which I will hopefully be uploading soon) and the other was a project of our choice. moss & vine incorporates spoken word, original music, and video shot and edited by me. It's been a long time since I've really used my visual sensibilities in a creative way, and it was exhilarating to be able to do so. The video's content is quite personal and important to me, and I was happy that it came out similarly to how I envisioned it.
Soundalike Cover: Porcupine Tree - Where We Would Be
Dan Tierney, Colin Murphy, Peter DeBarros, Ryan Gauley
One of the main projects we were given this Spring was to record a cover of a song with exacting precision to the original recording (in every dimension--performance, recording technique, mixing, production, the whole shebang). I was originally going to record a local Boston band: we had plans in place for quite a long time before they informed me that they weren't going to be able to record with me. At this point, many of the other students had already waged sessions for this project, so I was fairly panicked; however, upon browsing my music library for a suitable track to cover and contacting a large body of my fellow students in hopes that they might be willing to record for me I pieced together this ensemble of four friends to record Porcupine Tree's "Where We Would Be". I've been a fan of the band (and this song particularly) for quite a while, so it was actually pretty exciting to be able to work on it. Despite the constraints on time we were working with, I am quite happy with the way the final project turned out. I was told by several people that it sounds very close to the original, which was uplifting! I hope you enjoy!
Beyond Tomorrow - We'll Meet Again
This is a band from my hometown who I had the pleasure to record over the summer of 2013. We agreed to track one song, and this is it. The band had written the music some time beforehand but had never had the opportunity to have it recorded--or any of their music recorded, for that matter. I wanted to give the track a lush sound while still retaining a good deal of power when it was called for. The band takes a lot of influence from classic rock, and I kept that in mind while mixing, although there certainly is a modern sheen to the production on this track. The photo I've posted is of the space we recorded in, but it's not from the session. I really enjoyed working with this music. Enjoy!
Mix: Hollow Ground - Ill Fate
Released as stems on http://cambridge-mt.com/ms-mtk.htm#Rock
This is a track mixed from stems downloaded from the website for Mixing Secrets of the Small Studio by Mike Senior. Anyone can download the stems for this track! I mixed this track mostly for fun, and for something to add to this website--I thought it would be fun to mix metal, and it was fun. My first rule when approaching this project, just to see if I could do it, was not to use drum replacement when mixing; I know this is a common shortcut to getting good-sounding drums, and I do it too, but I wanted to challenge myself here, and I'm glad I did. Careful use of gates, compressors, and transient designers was all that was necessary to get a punchy-sounding kit. The mix is mostly straightforward aside from that, save for a few sound effects I added to the track and some slight reverb on the vocal, which is not entirely typical in this style of music, as far as I'm aware. Hope you enjoy it!
