Brahmstedt White Noise (BWN), Minneapolis, has extended its reach to the West Coast, opening an office in Santa Monica. BWN/West will handle the company’s existing Minneapolis-based coterie of talent, as well as artisans secured via a series of strategic creative alliances, including one with composer Jerry Brunskill, former co-founder of Wow+Flutter, Minneapolis, as well as composer/engineer Ryan Rees. BWN was founded in 2002 by composer Ken Brahmstedt and sound designer/mixer Carl White, who both said the time was right to establish a West Coast foothold and make the company more readily accessible for national work….
Finger Music has relocated from its Los Angeles office to a newly designed 5,000-square foot studio in Santa Monica. The new premises not only offer more space for Finger Music composers, but also accommodate a new division, Finger 2nd Street Sound Studio, which offers full service audio postproduction services, including scoring, sound editorial and mixing. The Santa Monica studio was designed by post entrepreneur Alan Kozlowski, former owner of Pacific Ocean Post (POP). Heading up the Santa Monica shop is partner/creative director Dave Hodge. Jenny Warren is executive producer. Also partnered in Finger are creative director Hein Hoven and exec producer John Murrell, who founded the company in London in ’02…..
Senior mixer Craig Helmholz of Crescendo!, San Francisco, recently wrapped a Post Raisin Bran :15, “Valentine,” for Ogilvy & Mather, New York. The talent was recorded via ISDN with Sound Lounge, New York. Carl’s Fine Films, San Francisco, was the animation production house. Additionally, Helmholz worked with FilmCore, San Francisco, on a Taco Bell spot package for Foote, Cone & Belding, San Francisco, and on an adidas commercial, “Never Quits,” fpr TBWA/Chiat/Day, San Francisco….Rob McIver of Buzz, New York, served as sound designer and audio mixer on “Statue,” a public service spot for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) warning young people about the dangers of steroid use. We see the statue, a CGI representation of a Greek athlete, disintegrate before our eyes as the damage steroids can cause is enumerated. The PSA was produced by visual effects house Quiet Man, New York, for BBDO New York….
