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Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: BJ (Ancient Shores) on Down by Law
Feature — April 10, 2012
BJ Rochinich plays guitar for the Morgantown, WV band Ancient Shores, who released the Step to the Edge 7" last year on A389 Recordings. Rochinich (pictured below right) lends his voice to Scene Point Blank for a new column that explores perceptions of film and art. His turn-ons include Kafka, …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: BJ (Ancient Shores) on Narc
Feature — June 22, 2012
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” - Aldous Huxley The definition of a sequel or prequel is basically concrete. At times, sequels or prequels would be better off as an individual, unique piece free of association to another property. …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: BJ (Ancient Shores) on The Conversation
Feature — February 17, 2013
The Conversation is a film that uses sound to drive the story. Walter Murch handled mixing duties and Art Rochester worked as the sound engineer. Each were early in their careers, having about 10 years of film experience between them. Their work complemented the score composed by David Shire and …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: BJ (Ancient Shores) on The Long Good Friday
Feature — February 17, 2014
For those who have seen The Take (a four-part British mini-series starring Tom Hardy) or for those who appreciate the differences between British and American gangster films, you may want to take a look at The Long Good Friday. Finished in 1979 and released in 1980, The Long Good …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: BJ (Ancient Shores) on Heat
Feature — June 25, 2014
Considering the phrase “making movie history,” one could allude to films with big budgets, big actors, new innovations, or otherwise. For the 1995 film, Heat, Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino went head-to-head in a big way. The significance in casting DeNiro and Pacino opposite each other is seen on-screen …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: BJ (Ancient Shores) on Nightbreed
Feature — April 17, 2015
The story of Nightbreed’s production goes back to the pre-internet days reading fangoria magazine and conversations among those who were into horror movies and fiction. Clive Barker’s journey with this film started in the late ‘80s and continued into the early 2000s. The story of this film is as …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: BJ (Ancient Shores) on sound
Feature — July 5, 2015
As young as 14, Jeff King was drumming in bands and in years after would continue writing music and touring. He was the final drummer in Arkansas’ Handshake Murders before taking on a path to sound design and mixing films. Where he was once arranging music as a part of …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: BJ (Ancient Shores) on audio production / Shallow Grave (1994)
Feature — September 6, 2015
Jason Alberts is an audio engineer with an extensive career in post-production, along with location sound. His recent work includes mixing on Paralytic, Dead Body, and Soaked in Bleach (film review here). Jason is an engineer at Sumosound in Seattle, WA and was generous in answering …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: BJ (Ancient Shores) on Claudio Marino
Feature — February 21, 2016
For this installment of "Beyond Casual Observation" Claudio Marino of Artax Film and Swedish band Tid took some time to speak about the processes of picking crew, the goals for a score and his own creative discovery. In his answers he references each piece of his Blood and Spirit trilogy …
Interviews: Amenra
Feature — August 27, 2016
Amenra’s 2016 release, Alive, from Consouling Sounds is a compilation of live acoustic performances from 2014. Comprising that track list is material from Amenra’s 2009 EP, Afterlife, acoustic renditions of songs from Mass III, covers of two songs, and appearances by Belgian-poet Sofie Verdoodt. All totaled, Alive …
Interviews: Floor
Feature — February 1, 2017
Anthony Vialon took time to answer some questions from SPB about many things Floor which forms the backbone of this piece. Many thanks to Anthony for his time and detailed answers. Florida-based rockers Floor released one of 2014’s most anticipated releases, Oblation, on Season of Mist in April of …
Interviews: Wino (The Obsessed)
Feature — May 1, 2017
The divine inspiration. In the words of The Obsessed guitarist/vocalist Scott "Wino" Weinrich, the divine inspiration is when a song comes together in a single effort. It does not happen often, or for most, and from a legendary guitarist who has been writing and playing music since the late 1970s …
Interviews: Cult of Luna
Feature — June 1, 2017
Reaching out from Stockholm, Sweden, guitarist/vocalist Johannes Persson of Cult of Luna generously took some time to talk about Cult of Luna, and their newest release, the live DVD/CD Years in a Day. “To write songs is not about finding chords, [it is] finding different ways of working the …
Interviews: Harvestman (Steve Von Till)
Feature — June 18, 2017
Steve Von Till generously took time to speak to Scene Point Blank about the newest Harvestman release, Music for Megaliths. The unintentional dawn of Harvestman was roughly the late 90s, according to Steve Von Till. Von Till, the person behind Harvestman, began capturing moments, full of drones and sounds, …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: Jeffrey Roy on ADR mixing and Andrei Tarkovsky’s "Stalker"
Feature — August 6, 2017
Jeffrey Roy is busy. Check the link for his credits and you will see a vast list of projects. In this edition of “Beyond Casual Observation,” as with other entries, I talk to Roy to help round out the roles that audio professionals have in film. The similarities in …
Interviews: Junior Bruce
Feature — August 21, 2017
Junior Bruce thrives on thick riffs: Deep riffs, memorable melodies, and grooves that bang our heads and pump our fists as they roam in to our bones (see “Thirteen Zeros”). Just hold on and enjoy the ride. You may even discover that human ears can hear below a previously uncharted …
Interviews: Thoughts of Ionesco
Feature — October 22, 2017
In June of 2006 Seventh Rule Recordings released a collection titled, The Scar is Our Watermark. This was my introduction to Detroit’s Thoughts of Ionesco. The Scar is Our Watermark is a fantastic fan-friendly release, which also includes a DVD. This made me want to know more about Thoughts …
Music / Beyond Casual Observation: Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum
Feature — November 6, 2017
Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum is a Grammy Award-winning and Juilliard-trained composer. She was born in New York City. She grew up listening to classical music “by the pound,” as well as enjoying musical theater and film music. She is greatly skilled and immensely talented. In this interview Nora talks about her creative …
Interviews: Father Murphy
Feature — February 27, 2018
“Year by year, release after release, Father Murphy music became the soundtrack of our lives. It was always out of a necessity that we worked on our music, as I like to say, it was like spitting out some black tar hidden inside ourselves, not really thinking about the impact …
