Cross-pacific music and sound boutique Nylon Studios has expanded with a new custom-built studio in Melbourne, Australia.
The 2,800 square foot space includes two new state-of-the-art post suites equipped with recording booths, with 5.1 and cinema sound capabilities. The current full-time staff includes EP Ceri Davies, composer Lydia Davies, head sound designer Paul Le Couteur, sound designer Ramsay Demarco and producer Alice Vanderwey.
The new studio further expands and diversifies Nylon’s global network, with the Melbourne shop sharing work across existing studios in New York and Sydney.
Nylon global EP Hamish Macdonald originally hails from Melbourne and felt it was essential to hire artists who are native to the local market. Further extensions are underway to build a customized suite to support the work of in-house composer Davies as well as visiting composers from other markets to increase the Melbourne scope to three post suites and one composition suite.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More