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).
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More