March 2008
Dear Friends.
Wow, 2007 was a very big year for V.
It started with the launch of vaudioinc.com
Gabriela Meneguelli and Lua Graphics did a great job of taking all of the crazy things we do and somehow have it all make cyber sense. www.luagraphics.com/
In January we mixed “Zebra Kids” by Gabriel Goodenough and Megaphone Productions, a powerful documentary film about troubled Baltimore City kids who take up African drumming and dancing.
In March we got shiny new Intel Macs!
The Discovery Channel has long been a source of fun and challenging work. Last year among many projects we mixed and sound designed Planet Earth promos, Animal Planet promos and mixed Deadliest Catch and American Chopper shows for the UK.
With Jobson Sailing it was a very busy production year. Gary Jobson is a former All-American collegiate sailor. He won the America's Cup in 1977 as tactician for Ted Turner. As a broadcaster/producer (he is ESPN's Sailing Analyst), lecturer and writer (he is an Editor at Large for Sailing World and Cruising World magazines), Jobson is the pre-eminent ambassador for sailing in the U.S.
In 2007 V Audio composed music, sound designed and did the post audio for seven films, including Acura Key West Race Week, Outward Bound, and History Of The America’s Races 1851-2007, featuring Walter Cronkite.
www.jobsonsailing.com/
Over the summer we produced and co-wrote four songs with
Julia Meyerhoff, an incredibly gifted, fifteen year old singer-songwriter. This girl is going places! More on Julia coming up.
The fall of ’07 just took off.
In August we started working with the Mid Atlantic Sports Network
(MASN) and Chris Nufer Radio to produce radio spots for The Baltimore Ravens as well as Colonial and Big South conference college football and basketball.
www.masnsports.com/
For Bonnemaison Films we sound designed and mixed a wonderful short film “Pudgy” that premiered at the Bahamas Film Festival.
In October we started mixing shows for the up and coming Retirement Living Network.
For the series Viewpoint we mixed a segment featuring blues greats Cephas & Wiggins.
http://rl.tv/
For Ted Turner we finished up the year creating sound for the film “Courageous” about the 1977 America’s Cup Race in Newport, Rhode Island, which Ted won with Gary Jobson. Originally, the sound consisted of music and narration only. Essentially it was a silent film. The task was to create the “natural” sound meaning everything from the sounds of the race to Ted’s victory walk through the streets of Newport. It was painstaking but a lot of fun and a good excuse to significantly beef up our sound effects library!
2008 has started off well.
With kid’s rock band MILKSHAKE, we produced four songs for Club Med. You can go to the web site and vote for one of the songs to be named the official song of Club Med Ixtapa.
http://miniclubmedsong.fullsix.com/
2008 will also bring a fourth Milkshake CD, the third being the critically acclaimed “Play” released early last year.
www.milkshakemusic.com/
For MASN and Chris Nufer Radio, Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals radio production has begun. We hope both teams have better seasons!
Currently we are working on Acura Key West and Miami Races with
Jobson Sailing for ESPN, and in May will be doing the scoring and post-production for a film about Gary’s recent trip to Antarctica.
This year will also see the launch of VictorVictor Music as a record label with the release of EAT THE MONSTER by Steel Rider.
http://www.eatthemonster.com/
This heavy metal CD originally recorded in 1986, has recently been featured on MTV – Real World / Road Rules Challenge, and has even found it’s way to the Foreign Cinema / Laszlobar dance floor in San Francisco.
www.laszlobar.com/
By popular demand we are unleashing it upon an unsuspecting public.
EAT THE MONSTER is being distributed by CD Baby and will soon be available for download on CD Baby, I Tunes, Napster and Rhapsody. The CD release date is set for April 1st. No joke.
www.cdbaby.com/
Thank you for taking the time to check us out. We realize this is an unsolicited mailing, but promise not to bombard you or give out your email address. If you wish to not receive further updates please let us know.
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All the best,
V
Victor Giordano
victor@vaudioinc.com
www.vaudioinc.com/
We’re located a 1/2 block from the historic Senator Theater and Belvedere Square in beautiful North Baltimore.
