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Passion Pit – Little Secrets Remix

Lawrence Scaduto — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:59:47 +0000

Passion Pit Recently had a remix contest of Little Secrets.

Here is my Dance Hall submission.

Feel Free to download and share amongst your loved ones.

If you don’t know Passion Pit you should: They are a pretty amazing band.

Starburst spec Commercial – Crazy Arms!

Lawrence Scaduto — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:01:16 +0000

Here’s a little something I whipped up with my boys.

Brandon Langanke Came up with the concept, directed, edited, produced.
Keith Hopkin ran camera and produced
Lawrence Scaduto (me) produced, built props, sound designed, composed and mixed.

Absolut Time

Lawrence Scaduto — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:32:34 +0000

Music and Sound Design by Me, Lawrence Scaduto

Absolut Wheelchair

Lawrence Scaduto — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:43:09 +0000

Another goodness sandwich made of the Absolut teams video and my original score.

Absolut Original

Lawrence Scaduto — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:32:35 +0000

Here is another spot from the Absolute campaign I wrote for.

Absolut – Downsize

Lawrence Scaduto — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:19:03 +0000

Yeah Boyeee!

My homies at Absolut asked me to write music for 4 spots. The first one has hit youtube this week.

Here’s the picture:

Veer – Show & Tell

Lawrence Scaduto — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:15:01 +0000

Veer asked me to create and original piece for their “Show & Tell” promo video. Motion Graphics by Eden Soto. Drums by Keith Hopkin.

Wine Library TV

Lawrence Scaduto — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:19:59 +0000

Gary Vaynerchuk, not your typical wine expert, describes what he tastes on the Internet’s most passionate wine program. Gary’s spontaneous, informal approach makes wine both accessible and fun. Explore WLTV and join the legion of viewers changing the wine world.

Music by me: Lawrence Scaduto

Motion Graphics by Eden Soto

No Country For Gay Men

Lawrence Scaduto — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:18:43 +0000

I use this blog to primarily promote my work as a composer. It’s gotten a lot of traffic lately from people looking for the “No Country For Gay Men” parody video I did last week. I originally posted it on another section of my website

If you haven’t seen the video here it is:

How it was made:

It took a few hours of repeating lines to get the inflections to be funny/interesting. I tried to keep the timing of the words to be exactly the same as Javier’s but I found that if I needed to fudge the timing to make it funnier that was fine.

Next I muted the original to play only when the gas station attendant speaks.

At this point the sound of each character still didn’t sound like they were in the same space. I added the slightest room reverb to my voice to match the original. I then played back the audio of each character in a room with wood floors about the same size of the room they were in. I recorded this back into my DAW and we were almost there.

I added a room tone, the music and a distant ringing telephone to heighten the tension. If you recall the original scene has almost no music at all. I made sure not to over do it.

This first started as a funny idea I had. It turned into a way to show off my sound design chops.

UPDATE:

No Country For Gay Men has been mentioned in this weeks Entertainment Weekly.

Web Obsession of the Week

SWEET AS CHIGURH

Remember that heart-pounding confrontation in No Country For Old Men when Anton Chigurh, Javier Bardem’s coin-tossing killing machine, taunts an elderly store clerk who has no clue he just might be ringing up his last sale? Well, some online joker has turned the scene on its head, replacing Bardem’s gravelly intonation with a hyper-effeminate voice-over. The clip is a dandy, not only because its flamboyant Chigurh is so jarringly different from the Coen Brothers’ assassin, but also because the clerk’s bewildered reaction works perfectly with either voice. When Chigurh says, “You’ve been putting up your whole life – you just didn’t know it,” try not to titter at a bloodthirsty villain who sounds a bit like Linda Richman. – Jeff Labrecque

In the May 23rd, 2008 issue on page 105.

Social Brew Opening Theme Music

Lawrence Scaduto — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:48:52 +0000

Revision3.com asked me to write the audio package for Social Brew. After firing up the Casios and plugging in a few esoteric guitar pedals these sounds were born.

from Rev3:Social Brew is the show that takes you inside the world of social networking services. From Linked-in to Facebook, Myspace, Twitter – just to name a few – we’ve got you covered.

http://revision3.com/socialbrew/

Motion Design by Eden Soto
Music/Sound Design by Lawrence Scaduto/Fourth Grade Gladiators