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).
For Documentaries At Sundance, Oscar Nominations (and Wins) Often Follow
The Sundance Film Festival welcomed back three Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers to help kick off the annual independent film showcase in Park City, Utah.
On Thursday night at The Ray Theater, "20 Days in Mariupol" filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, who won the Oscar last year, debuted his latest dispatch from Ukraine, "2000 Meters to Andriivka," a harrowing journey to the front lines of a 2023 counteroffensive. A few hours later, at the Eccles, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, who won an Oscar for "Summer of Soul" in 2022, unveiled his Sly Stone portrait, "SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genuis)." Earlier, "One Day in September" filmmaker Kevin MacDonald also showcased his film "One to One: John & Yoko," which debuted last year at the Venice Film Festival and will get an IMAX release on April 11 before hitting Max later this year.
Some critics reflected that "2000 Meters to Andriivka," a joint production between The Associated Press and PBS Frontline, was even more powerful than "20 Days in Mariupol." "SLY LIVES!" (on Hulu Feb. 13) was called "sublime" and "illuminating" in its examination of an underappreciated, shapeshifting genius.
"I've been coming here since 2000 and I thought the coolest thing you could do would be to DJ an after party," Thompson said before the screening. "I never dreamt this for my future, so this is really humbling."
It was a full-circle end to a day that began with a slate of documentary Oscar nominations all connected to the Sundance Institute in some way. Some were supported by the Institute, some debuted at the festival as recently as last year.
"Black Box Diaries," in which a Japanese filmmaker investigates her own sexual assault, had its premiere in Park City last year and was supported by the... Read More