J. Murphy Ryan Sound design · editorial · mixing

About

Supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer.

I've made sound for film since 2014: effects editorial at Los Angeles sound houses first, then supervising and mixing features of my own. Along the way I started building small tools for the paperwork side of the job, so more of my time goes to the sound.

Where I stand

The tools I build handle the paperwork around the job: deciphering metadata, searching libraries, keeping spotting notes in order. They never generate sound, and they never cut it.

I work with real recorded sound and build every sound by hand: finding it, layering it, making new sounds out of real ones. And I think provenance matters: if a sound is generated, everyone should know.

The craft is the point. The tools exist to protect the time you spend on it.

In one paragraph

Supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer. I cut, design and mix sound for features and series, built by hand from real recorded sound.

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