Today a documentary will be included in the Academy’s Sound bake off for the first time alongside films like Avatar, Top Gun, Batman, Elvis, and Black Panther. I want to congratulate our team & acknowledge the hundreds of sound artists working on docs who have advanced the form.

Moonage Daydream is designed to be an immersive experience. We recorded crowds for every performance so we could surround the viewer in Atmos and 12.0 Existing archival audio was blended w/ new multitrack recordings. Here’s @NHartstone directing group for Station to Station

During the edit, I cut the middle section of “Blackstar” (2016) and the outro to Silly Boy Blue (1967) together, creating a musical dialogue spread across 5 decades.

To create the concert scenes in Moonage Daydream, we had to separate the music stems from the room and the crowds. To create authentic reverb, the sound team rented a football stadium and played the full mix through the PA, recording the ambience on 12 mics. Here’s Jean Genie!