SUNDANCE 2023: DESIGNING AN ALIEN LANGUAGE FOR ‘LANDSCAPE WITH INVISIBLE HAND’ – WITH GENE PARK AND RUY GARCIA

Jennifer Walden - A Sound Effect

In director Cory Finley's 2023 Sundance premiere titled Landscape with Invisible Hand, an alien race known as the Vuvv takes over earth, and in true Gen-Z fashion, two young people decide to cash in on the aliens' fascination with human behavior by streaming their dating life. Here, sound supervisor/sound designer/re-recording mixer Gene Park and sound effects editor/re-recording mixer Ruy Garcia talk about the challenges of designing the Vuvv's language, and more!

Ruy Garcia on Making the Playful Sound of ‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On →

Jennifer Walden - A Sound Effect

Films have the power to transport the audience to another place, to take them out of their lives. That’s true for the people who work on the films too. For 2x Emmy and MPSE Award-winning supervising sound editor/sound designer/re-recording mixer Ruy Garcia, working on A24’s Marcel the Shell With Shoes On during the pandemic was just what his psyche needed in those dark days of isolation and uncertainty, because Marcel is a film about connecting with others, finding the beauty in the ordinary, and it’s about hope.

‘After Yang’: Film Review | Cannes 2021 →

David Rooney -The Holywood Reporter

A punchy dance routine for multiple families of four opens After Yang, and it’s easily the most exhilarating sequence of its kind in a film about artificial intelligence since Oscar Isaac and Sonoya Mizuno’s sexy boogie in Ex Machina. But this contemplative, utterly transfixing second feature from the South Korean-born video essayist known as Kogonada could not be more different in tone.

The Future of Post-Production Sound →

Jennifer Walden-Mix Magazine

Work has been getting done, and production is slowly picking up again, but most agree that after six months of shutdowns and changing protocols, any kind of new “normal” will include both in-person sessions and remote collaboration.

Ruy Garcia Leverages Upmixing Software for Film Releases on Netflix And Apple TV →

StreamingMedia.com

As one of the industry’s most respected audio experts, award-winning re-recording mixer, sound editor and sound designer Ruy Garcia is passionate about using only the best audio equipment for his craft.

"Take care of yourself": an interview with Ruy Garcia →

Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe - Nugen Audio

Ruy Garcia is an award-winning Sound Designer best known for his work on Boardwalk Empire. Following on from his NUGEN user story last month, this is more of an informal chat about how his working practice has changed during the lockdown, how he used Halo Upmix on Midsommar and Wendy, and why Lost In Translation is best watched with headphones.

Wendy Movie Review →

Richard Whittaker - TAC

“All children, except one, grow up.” Those simple, magical words open J.M. Barrie’s beloved children’s book Peter Pan. The question it implicitly asks of the reader is whether Peter – the boy who wouldn’t grow up – is blessed or shackled by eternal youth. In Wendy, there’s a bittersweet answer…

SUNDANCE SPECIAL: THE SOUND OF ‘WENDY’ →

Jennifer Walden - A Sound Effect

Each year, the Sundance Film Festival showcases world premieres of highly anticipated indie films. Director Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy is in that group this year. The film was one recipient of the Dolby Institute Fellowship, which provides funds for extended sound editorial and final mixing in Dolby Atmos. Here we talk to supervising sound editor /re-recording mixer Ruy Garcia about the challenges of working on Wendy and what the Dolby grant meant for this soundtrack.

‘Midsommar’ Review: Horror in the Summer Sun →

John Anderson - WSJ

It hasn’t quite been an all-sequel summer at the multiplex—some remakes have slipped in, too. Basically, the studios have been treating audiences like newborns (formula, round the clock). So when a movie like “Midsommar” comes along, and goes out of its way to so flamboyantly flout convention, it deserves credit just for being undefinable…

'See You Yesterday' Uses Time Travel To Remind Us Black Lives Still Matter →

Taryn Finley - Huffington Post

“See You Yesterday” is like no story you’ve seen before…

Colors, Sounds Change With Lead Character in ‘Sorry to Bother You’ →

Daron James - Variety

Adding to the storyline was the aural landscape overseen by supervising sound editors Ruy García and Michael McMenomy. The team crafted a track using local sound elements to reflect city life….

Color and audio post for Hulu’s The Looming Tower →

post perspective.com

Hulu’s limited series, The Looming Tower, explores the rivalries and missed opportunities that beset US law enforcement and intelligence communities in the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Lawrence Wright, who also shares credit as executive producer with Dan Futterman and Alex Gibney, the show’s 10 episodes paint an absorbing, if troubling, portrait of the rise of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, and offer fresh insight into the complex people who were at the center of the fight against terrorism…

The pros behind series including 'Mars, ' The Get Down,' and "Westworld' also reveal their sonic secrets. →

Carolyn Giardina - The Hollywood Reporter

Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down follows the birth of Hip Hop in the Bronx during the late 1970s.. “With Baz, emotion is king, and bigger and bolder is always better,” said supervising sound designer Ruy Garcia of Technicolor PostWorks New York.

The color and sound of Netflix’s The Get Down →

Post Perspective

The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann’s new series for Netflix, tells the story of the birth of hip-hop in the late 1970s in New York’s South Bronx. The show depicts a world filled with colorful characters pulsating to the rhythms of an emerging musical form.