Swampland Studios

Recording, editing, sound designing & pre-mixing in Swampland Studios for Jorge Molina Cuquerella´s PRKNG, starring Pablo Turégano. There was some music I composed for the film, but unfortunately there wasn´t enough time to finish the score, so some bits from Petra Flurr´s “Visage” (Warsaw was raw records, 2008) were used instead of them.

Working with Jorge Molina Cuquerella is always something special, we met more than 10 years ago and we´ve been sharing thoughts about films, theater plays, sound and music since the very first moment we met, so he was good friend of mine before even thinking about working together.

I feel some kind of telepathy with him sometimes, and he always lets me (or “us”, the more or less regular people in the crew) know about his projects from the first lines he writes, what helps a lot in the production process, so we can row in the same direction months before shooting anything, there are some remarkably funny brainstorming moments I can´t tell you right now…

The filming of this one was an absolute nightmare, three nights inside of a parking lot, breathing the worst air possible, sleepless (working in the day time in another project for Warsaw Was Raw records), awful acoustics with infinite reverb, poor equipment, moving light systems and a lot of other people in the set, so it was hard to keep that enviroment quiet, I can tell you.

The editing process was quite hard also, too many problems with computers, formats (we had to record all the sound straight to the camera, “the red one”) and lots of things to overdub, but considering the situation I´m more or less satisfied about the result, even if I was looking for some kind of “Eraserhead” ambience and my main point and motivation was making just the music.

I really missed Marcel in this one…I want to thank the sound assistant Pablo Thonon his good disposition and patience.

Probably this won´t be the final version:

PRKNG HD from jorge antonio on Vimeo.

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