April 2019

Blockbuster: Episode III: Another World

https://pca.st/episode/c071e127-85e2-4bcd-80e4-72a2343fa087 (30.4.2019)

• Watching lines around the block: JAWS

• Oscar for John Williams

• Josef Williams

• Close Encounters: 5 vs. 7 notes (z.B. 

• Hans Solo: Christopher Walken, Kurt, Tommy Lee Jones, Russel, Harrison Ford (als Tischler organisiert)

• Leia: Jodie Foster 

• Alex Guiness: 15x mehr verdient

• NEVER LET YOUR CREW SEE A SWEAT

• Ufo 🛸 

• Union

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Jane Fonda

https://pca.st/episode/f8759856-7a90-4da2-b2ac-0a2d2575a48f (30.4.2019)

• Lilly Tomlin ... Grace & Frankie

• Jane fonda is in my House

• War 

• You have to become your own parent

• Fake it until you make it (pretend ... you become what you do) https://pca.st/episode/f8759856-7a90-4da2-b2ac-0a2d2575a48f?t=1559.0

• Fantasizing their death (marriage) ... there is a pattern here

• It’s always the things you don’t that you regret at the end ... life can’t you longer but deeper (with 61/81)

• Active relationship vs. Addiction

• Workout video to fund activism

• Existential threat: Donald Trump vs. climate change ... something has to happen

• What matters to you ... and why

• Robert Redford: Sundance

• Write hate letters ... and don’t send them

• Historic Jesus ... the Bible is a (beautiful) metaphor ... he was a feminist

Twenty Thousand Hertz: Voyager Golden Record

https://pca.st/episode/c8ba1409-6a3a-474e-837c-d7aa51c552f0 (29.4.2019)

• Kurt Waldheim (?)

• 11.000.000.000 Miles away

• Hello from the children of the planet earth

• Sound essay: music of the spheres ... representation of the rotating planets 

• Brainwaves

• Bach vs. Math, Gamelan

• Intergalactic Best Of

• Copper and gold

• Remaining evidence of our existence

Sounding Off with Rick Beato: Episode 127: ED SHEERAN VS. MARVIN GAYE LAWSUIT: Let's Compare!

https://pca.st/episode/f496ac32-533b-4e6a-9368-5d2a4485112f (29.4.2019)

• 100.000.000 lawsuit

• Same tempo, same chords, assume sounds ... different: Melody & Lyrics

• „Can you Copyright © a Cowbell?“

Criminal: Episode 113: Hostage

https://pca.st/episode/174a0646-e011-4fca-9f99-07797fbb87e2 (29.4.2019)

• Stockholm Syndrom

• 1973

• Afraid of the police

• In the dark

• Emergency God

• Joyful period

Switched on Pop: Sounds Like Teen Spirit (with Elle Fanning)

https://pca.st/episode/3ba7d9f1-00f0-49d9-8a21-0c5cd9544586 (25.4.2019)

• How important are singing competitions?

• Bad choice, vocal range

• Amateure Hour: Frank Sinatra ... Gladice Night ... Alanis Morissette 

• Eurovision, American Idol

• Vine Stars 🤩 

• Most performed songs: Whitney Houston’s „I have nothing“ ... characteristics: virtuosity, epic modulation • Nina Simone’s „feeling good“ ... In minor! ... Intro, nothing to hide ... Janis Joplin ... „I have my own style“

• Film: Teen Spirit ... anti reality show title

• Elle Fanning: 3 months of vocal training, not quite there yet (like in the movie), robin: „dancing on my own“ – inspired the movie, being/feeling close to pop stars

• Song Tipps: https://youtu.be/jZ3K9E8Cvbg

StarTalk Radio: Saving the Earth, with Al Gore

https://pca.st/episode/3144d737-e4a3-4905-b582-2de1a284c7e2 (24.4.2019)

Blockbuster: Episode II: The Shark

https://pca.st/episode/0a4cdcd0-6365-48a1-828d-b6432bd26756 (23.4.2019)

• Robot Camera

• Jeff Bridges, Jon Voight

• „The shark is not working“

• Doppeltes Budget, Monate Drehzeit

• Star Wars: 7.000.000

• John „Max (Steiner)“ Williams

• Steven (27), John (42)

• Jaws: 2 notes ... shower

• Success of jaws: 50:50 film & music 

• Josef Campbell: The Heroes Journey

• Behind the scenes: podcast Sound Design

• Loopgroup

What The World Never Knew About The Beatles

https://youtu.be/wo2SIYSQ170 (22.4.2019)

Blockbuster: Episode I: The World Builders

https://pca.st/episode/66384494-694d-4e3c-9468-cfcb0047a6ba (21.4.2019)

• Johnny Williams: Peter Gunn

• Bernard Herman

• Luke Starkiller, Dark Father ... Chewbacca = собака (Russisch für “Hund”)

• Trained sharks 🦈 

Frag den Lesch: Existiert Zukunft?

https://pca.st/episode/f460b2a8-28cf-415a-934c-c63e11e9cafd  (16.4.2019)

• Anfang durch Anfang = die Zeit entstand im Urknall

• Platz ist in der kleinsten Hütte (Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft)

• Zukunft = Gegenwart des Urknalls

Freakonomics Radio: How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

https://pca.st/episode/889b11cd-0613-484b-b9f7-b9bbf49ffd21  (16.4.2019)

The Empire Film Podcast: Malcolm McDowell A Clockwork Orange Special

https://pca.st/episode/060b7351-1c3f-41eb-b8d9-50be5f2d0929 (16.4.2019)

• Sick of it ... move on

• Dressed up Bowie 

• Malcolm: eyelash, singing in the rain

• Stanley: „you show intelligence on screen“

• Lindsay Anderson: getting beaten? Smile!

• Gene Kelly... pissed with Stanley 

• Filmtipp: time after time

Criminal: Episode 112: The Mail

https://pca.st/episode/858d9269-d6f3-44c5-8910-87a7b1d21c1e (15.4.2019)

Recording Studio Rockstars: RSR186 - John Paterno - Recording with Tchad Blake, Joe Chicarelli, Los Lobos, Soul Coughing and Steve Gadd

https://pca.st/episode/a02ee89e-aaa9-411c-b8ba-dc9bc6f55971 (12.4.2019)

• How to get the guitar player down: give him charts ... notes and scales

• Get the best out of studio musicians 

• Hit record immediately

• Los Lobos: Tchad Blake https://open.spotify.com/album/76BObGlNxwAWFErfXSGzjy?si=PLUFw3U6SFyVcl5prCDHEg Colossal Head

• Tchad: sound, Mitchell: harmony

• Susanne Vega: 99,9 ... P.A.: filtered vocals 

• Kevin Killen: Never take a gig just for the money

• Quality, Cost, Time (triangle): pick two

• Steve Gadd

• Approach: Recording Jazz 

• Tchad: Mono Mike, close to the kit (441, AKG, ... Heavy compression, pedals)

• Overhead: XY snare/kick in the center !!

• https://www.youtube.com/watchv=khGCeaBtzuw Steve Gadd Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoaPg-F7Gao Steve Gadd Band Leverkusener Jazztage 2015

• Steve Gadd Band: Walt Fowler, Larry Goldings, Jimmy Johnson, Michael Landau: https://open.spotify.com/album/14Qj15wmuZeDRNHg1TkVLJ?si=WmPYG-3MTN-hDKrL5i653w

• Tchad: Mic 🎙 of the day (on everything)

• Jazz “Sound” ... miking techniques

• Listen to the drumkit in the room 

• Joe Chicarelli: kick + snare find the sweet spot in the room

• „Soul Vroom“ – Soul Cauhing: https://open.spotify.com/album/1tdZSH8rMdK3Oz0U4pijpj?si=AfCGoPx7RSydyV3neRqdeQ Upright Bass, Samples

• Sub woofers have killed life sound ... Sub vs. Bass

• Music = notes and space

• Physical vs. Aural excitement 

• Hyper stereo: in the middle of the music vs. Distance

• Technology is your friend: Filme dich beim mikrophonieren

• Puremix: 4 Mixers, Same Song 

• Rough mix: 1.) listen to the arrangement 2.) balancing vs. creating ... Parts vs. Record ... fill in the parts

• OX AU ... reamping

• Mastering: give a shit about being competitive

• Being Bob Ludwig: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ludwig

• Broad strokes: analog

• Headphone mixes 

• Peter Hinmelmann ... spoken word: https://open.spotify.com/track/2xCXn9l8rGrAGgldJpPsi5?si=AIBjHH_eQOe4-tpm3rJ3rA

• Commitment

• Binaural mix (Tschad Blake): https://open.spotify.com/track/6vDCBM2CRp4HedLRtac52S?si=NRwtB1r2TwWTNr7GwqpvaQ 

• Binaural Plugin (Alliance) ... https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/learn/article/items/dearvr-record-demo.html

• https://open.spotify.com/track/3MFSm75lnRSOGFmXi1Nqnh?si=SdjARxMNREO15mYwh3vLVA

• Career Tipps: 1.) follow your guts 2.) Put yourself in the position of the player 3.) Leave the place better than you got it

• Magical Beatles records

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Vincent D'Onofrio

https://pca.st/episode/e2d143bc-e1cc-4245-af94-6288e5d276bb (12.4.2019)

• Helping out is what being a person is about 

• www.paterra.com

• Bouncer: I don’t mind getting punshed

• Vincent vs. Trolls

• “Magic is not sexy”

• Method acting: stanialowsky system ... first 10 years

• Acting: talk through your stomach ... techniques applied every time 

• Read the whole script,  understand the whole composition

• Stanley Kubrick ... wird’s without punctuation 

• Overweight Vincent (20-50 pounds), weak mind ... tell the story

• Don’t be a dick: just do it (Kubrick)

• “What do you gonna do?” ... faster ... better ... more interesting

• Challenge: Mystic Pizza ... applying acting

• Robert Altman ... the player 

• Horror musical 

• Filmtipp: The Kid

• Ethan Hawk: 2 good sentences, inspired for weeks

https://pca.st/episode/547b2e65-7a34-44c5-bd8a-f4f0b48d9289 (11.4.2019)

Faking Hitler: Folge 1: Die Entdeckung der Tagebücher

https://pca.st/episode/86cd7077-ac6f-4289-a42a-36908904a1fd (8.4.2019)

• E01: „E“

• E02: Gerd & Conny

• Gutes Geld mit „H“

• Eine Geschichte ist nur so gut wie dein Erzähler

• 9,4 Millionen

• Freitag 22. April

• To big to fail 

• Der verdiente Journalist mit Nazi-Tick

• Der schwarze Freitag des Stern 🖤

• Schtonk: Möglichst gut geklaut als schlecht ausgedacht

• 🌩💩😜

• Migräne bis Schtonk

• Heidemann in seinem Archiv

• Kujau: 2 Gallerien, Restaurant, Designer, Malunterricht für Kinder, Kochbuch

• Menschen wollen in ihren Träumen bestätigt werden vs. Betrogen

• Überraschung in München.. ... Kisten aus der Führermaschine

• Apfelkuchen

Radiolab: For Whom the Cowbell Tolls

https://pca.st/episode/65253dbf-a51d-4e4c-8786-9ea65b2a77e3 (8.4.2019)

• Gipf-Oberfrick

• Kirchenglocken, Kuhglocken, Mäuseschwänze

• Tradition vs. Angst

• Je weniger akzeptiert, desto mehr dagegen

A Conversation With Ed O'Brien Of Radiohead – That Pedal Show

https://youtu.be/YK4Fmrlqz3I (05.04.2019)

• Top of the pops 

• One song started the guitar: walking on the moon

• Great guitars within a great song ... Johnny Marr

• Texture ... emotions 

Rig Rundown: Failure's Ken Andrews [2019]

https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/28764-rig-rundown-failures-ken-andrews-2019

• Citizen – As You Please (Mixer by Ken)

• Guitar: piezo, Alu neck ... crunch to acoustic with the push of a button

• FreqOut for feedback

• Ken: No Audio on the Pedalboard 

• Mainstage ... again

• Fractal ii > Fractal iii ... sound changes

• Studio: Amps exclusively

• TC Electronic „mimic“

The Empire Film Podcast: #357 - Kevin Costner, Tim Burton

https://pca.st/episode/4c27679a-554d-4009-86b3-767b1ebdcc3d (04.04.2019)

• „I cannot sanction your buffoonery“ 😜 Tommy Lee Jones zu Jim Carrey

• Funny Mr. Bean?

• Never free climb („interview“) Tommy Lee Jones

• 3 persons in one (confusing character)

• Architecting a shooting scene (no way out)

• Middle priced, character driven drama ... selten 

• Kevin: what „they“ want the most is tied up in the thing I believe in the most ... The god they are praying to = more money ... „I don’t believe in conventional wisdom“

• The movie is joking to death ... what about me? Some movies are better in the written form

• Rehearsal = forming

• Speach in JFK: well rehearsed, 6 cameras, go!

• Your Job is to tell a story ... POV

• Be prepared for anything

• Tipp: Day of the dead (with Joe Pilato „joke on it“)

• Bingo Handjob (R.E.M)

• TIM BURTON: freaky little creature vs. Disney 

• Themes: finding your place in the world 

• Circus movies (Batman, big fish, dumbo)

• Choices vs. Allowing choices

• Lord Of Chaos (2/5)

The Tim Ferriss Show: #366: Neil Gaiman — The Interview I've Waited 20 Years To Do

https://pca.st/episode/ebe7c41c-aa6d-4ff6-8608-a8140c9ead02 (04.04.2019)

• 1 – 10: remove 7 😃

• Don’t write for millions ... write for 10 friends

• tim.blog/goodomen

• Metro Magazine (fake name 1975)

• Roger Dean: Yes album covers

• Spare tapes, spare everything ... 2 is 1 and 1 is none

• Ian Flemming “Plot” ... written by Roald Dahl

• Check into a not nice hotel: work

• “You can sit and write and do nothing but not anything else.”

• Schreiben mit 2 farbigen Stiften = du siehst den Fortschritt

• 1. Draft: you are telling the story to yourself 

• 2. Draft: editing 

• Typewriter vs. Paper 

• Leuchtturm ... the Porsche of Moleskine

• A blank page can’t be fixed

• Fountain pen 🖋 New York fountain pen hospital

• Starter: LAMY Safari ... Pilot 823 

• Icing hand after signing sessions ... 1.500.000 signatures

• Inner monologue – who cares?

•  Coraline: unpublishable ... „send me a contract and we both will find out“

• Writing 5-6 lines before bed ... every day

• Multiple projects

• Groundhog Day

• First thing in the morning: writing for an hour

• Tipp: The Graveyard Book ... written from the middle

• Good Omens ... Terry Gilliam

• ... as a stage Play, changing roles 

• Keine Kompromisse („what would Terry want?“

• Writers: architects and gardners

• Where things can go wrong 

Black Hole Sun: Inside the Song with Michael Beinhorn - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro

https://youtu.be/ng4f_fj9Lfc (03.04.2019)

• Commitment to Sound ... snare 

• Inspired by Electronic Music 

• Impact vs. Ambient wash 

• Space between 1 and 2: there is a Universe of possibilities

• BIG Sounds in a room ... Overdubs: psyhological Trick ... Playing to something „good“ Frontverlauf speakers

• R&B: The Guitars are not necessarily the loudest thing in the mix

• Led Zeppelin: Bass und drums: fettes Fundament (Pyramide) ... die Gitarren sind oben links/rechts = presence 

• Jimmy Page: 75% of our music was on acoustic guitars ... little amps, little guitars

• Guitar (black hole sun): Gretsch Silvertone + heavy strings

• Music: write for yourself, the fans will follow

• „Chris, you are Soundgarden)

• Now: everything is about hooks ... black hole sun! INTRO = tention and journey 

• Fender 16: slide guitar 

• Marshall + Boogie, 2 mics per amp: SM57 + RCA BK5B

• Chords: this shouldn’t work 😘

• Alternate reality for 3 minutes 

• Song gets better and better ... from the Demo on

• Leslie: Stereo with (vermutlich) 2 Mics ... pure midrange

• Distorted vocals: mini P.A. miced

• Signature sounds, signature sounds: keine cliches: cymbal auf die 1, rakes in den Gitarren ... it’s like a Jackson Pollack painting

• Chris Cornell: alone in the control room, speakers out of phase 

• Neumann U 87 (5 davon gingen kaputt)

• Double tracking ... from single passes!!

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: John Lithgow

https://pca.st/episode/a4dcb0ef-970b-46a8-83d0-37424c34a0d9 (03.04.2019)

• Theatre family

• Shakespearen Company

• Demanding Shakespeare

• Middle Aged the whole life (John)

• Brian DePalma ... Blowout ... Documentary

• „I love duality“

• John Lithgow vs. George Miller: Twilight Zone

• Kids: no irony