Bang has added Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Nick Cipriano to its roster as senior engineer and sound designer. He takes on duties in Bang’s main record/mix suite and will partner with Bang EP Brad Stratton and sr. engineer Paul Vitolins on live recording and mixing for Spotify’s exclusive “Artist Sessions’+ both in NYC and on the road.
Cipriano’s sound design and mixing credits include series for PBS, MTV, Discovery and Nat Geo, and spots for American Express, Ciroc Vodka, Victoria’s Secret and Google. For the latter client’s first broadcast spot, which ran on the Super Bowl, he garnered an AICP Show nomination for Sound Design.
Recent highlights include an Emmy Award for Sound Editing on the revamp of the classic kid’s show, The Electric Company.
His Grammy Award was for recording and mixing on Marlo Thomas’ celebrity-studded 2005 album benefitting the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, “Thanks and Giving All Year Long”.
A West coast native, Cipriano made his way to NYC in 1998 and graduated from NYU with a degree in Music Technology. In addition to engineering and mixing, he’s a multi-instrumentalist with a passion for musical composition (recent scoring work can be heard on commercials for Panasonic, Google, Purell and New Balance).
The Hottest Ticket At Sundance: Writer-Director Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Rose Byrne plays a mother in the midst of a breakdown in the experiential psychological thriller "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You."
Anticipation was high for the A24 film, which will be released sometime this year. Its premiere Friday at the Sundance Film Festival was easily the hottest ticket in town, with even ticketholders unable to get in. Those who did make it into the Library theater were treated to an intense, visceral, inventive story from filmmaker Mary Bronstein that has quickly become one of the festival's must-sees.
Byrne plays Linda, who is barely hanging on while managing her daughter's mysterious illness. She's faced with crisis after crisis, big and small — from the massive, gaping hole in their apartment ceiling that forces them to move to a dingy motel, to an escalating showdown with a parking attendant at a care center. The cracks in her psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing are become too much to bear.
"I'd never seen a movie before where a mother is going through a crisis with a child but our energy is not with the child's struggle, it's with the mother's," Bronstein said at the premiere. "If you're a caretaker, you shouldn't be bothering with yourself at all. It should all be about the person you're taking care of, right? And that is a particular kind of emotional burnout state that I was really interested in exploring."
Byrne and Bronstein went deep in the preparation phase, having long discussions about Linda with the goal of making her as real as possible before the quick, 27-day shoot. Byrne said she was obsessed with figuring out who Linda was before the crisis. The film was in part inspired by Bronstein's experience with her own daughter, but she didn't want to elaborate on the... Read More