AES Los Angeles 2016 Presenter or Author
Benjamin Cook
Primary Affiliation: 424 Post - Castiac, CA, USA
I was introduced to Post Production taking a part time job at night ...transferring 1/4” production sound rolls, while pursuing a music career in Los Angeles. A love of movies and my interest in samplers (sampling) and midi keyboards served me well. I had already been using using time code to synchronize tape machines to various midi devices (drum machines and keyboards) and a computer running midi sequencing software - increasing the meager physical track counts of my home demo studio with “virtual tracks”. So it wasn’t a huge leap to synchronize a DAW to a 3/4” deck. My first job cutting sfx was on “Hercules - The Legendary Adventures” and it’s spin off “Xena - Warrior Princess” - 20 years later my love affair with technology and sound continues. I have been very fortunate to work on great projects balancing work in both television and film. Notable Televsion credits include: Deadwood....Rome....The Pacific....Black Sails....and most recently Outcast.
Film credits include: Secretariat and Apocolypto.
Session List
Oct 2:
SP6: Immersive Sound Design for Film & TV (Panelist)