https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_5MnvCUvDU
The Art of Listening is a new documentary about the journey music takes to reach a listener’s ear, from the intent of an instrument maker and composer, to the producers and engineers who capture and preserve an artist’s voice.
The film, embedded above, features a wide range of artists, engineers and producers working in a variety of genres:
Alex DeTurk
Alyssa Bonagura
Andrew Scheps
Antonio Sanchez
Beacon
Christopher Willits
Dave Smith
David Chesky
Ethan Diamond
Gabriel Roth
Gaby Moreno
Gustavo Santaolalla
Hans Zimmer
Hiatus Kaiyote
Holly Williams
Ian Schneller
Jack Douglas
James Brown
Jason Bentley
Jean Larrivée
John Luther Adams
John McBride
John Storyk
Jonathan Galkin
Kaki King
Kamasi Washington
Marc Weinstein
Mark de Clive-Lowe
Mike Milosh
Peter Alyea
Reggie Watts
Shunsuke Shiomi
Steve Guttenberg
Steve Vai
Tycho
The Chainsmokers
Tim Westergren
Todd Simon
Tomoaki Sato
Tomoaki Takuma
Warren Huart
The film was directed by Michael Coleman & Emmanuel Moran, produced by Sebastian Weinberg and features music by Christopher Willits.
This was freaking AWESOME! Thanks for posting it, Synthtopia.
Irritating title and bored the hell out of me. It doesn’t tell a story, random bits of interviews of a big name dropping list.
Yawn.
I hear you
was that bad?
It wasted my time, there is no information in it.
I watched this for over an hour to listen to stuff like: “it’s all about the “tone” you know what I am talking about.”
I could have watched pr0n instead, that wouldn’t have any info either but at least some entertainment value.
This was great! People who didn’t like it were just listening on crappy equipment.
No, the sound was nice and I can see the work that went into the production of this. But where is the beef?
Nice advertisement, Sony.
I’m still in love with music the way I was in high school. I don’t ever want to lose this child-like fascination. I never want to be a grouchy, jaded elitist. I want to be a mystic, not an expert. Don’t be so damn hard, people. For me, music is more about feeling than sound or knowledge!
Awsome film
Apparently songwriters care about songs, luthiers care about guitars, engineers care about the recording processes, and some “producers” like computers and stuff. But I guess all the slo-mo means this stuff is important and amazing.
Crikey. This feels like an advert for gear that never ends.. Groundhog day without the groundhog. WTF is a groundhog. Halp im trapped inside this documentary