{"id":31,"date":"2017-10-12T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/128south.net\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2024-02-26T01:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T01:41:39","slug":"sound-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/128south.net\/?page_id=31","title":{"rendered":"Sound Design & Live Sound Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Custom soundscapes and spot effects that create an immersive, imaginative world for your story \u2013 sound that brings your unique world to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional sound design can help you make the leap from an okay production to an outstanding one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our carefully crafted audio won\u2019t sound like an mp3 pulled off the web. A storm can include lions roaring, demolition and a falcon\u2019s cry. A person\u2019s soul can be layers of human and animal elements traveling around the theatre. A play about women pilots in the 1940s can include real WWII propaganda films and period planes, mixed with women\u2019s voices on ground to air radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with hand-crafted digital design, Foley artist Matt Cowley creates perfectly timed, engaging and visually entertaining sound effects for live performance with an array of household objects and devices \u2013\u00a0as a mainstay of the long-running and crowd-pleasing Radio Theatre Project<\/a> at downtown St. Pete’s The Studio@620. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Stage Sound Design
by Matt Cowley<\/strong><\/h4>\n
audio samples available on Soundcloud<\/a><\/h6>\n

King Lear<\/strong> Tampa Repertory Theatre, February 2022. Dir. Connie Frankel.<\/p>\n

Dinner With Friends<\/strong> Tampa Repertory Theatre, September 2019. Dir. Robin Gordon.<\/p>\n

Stupid F**cking Bird<\/strong> Tampa Repertory Theatre, June 2019. Dir. David and Connie Frankel<\/p>\n

Stop Kiss<\/strong>\u00a0Period 1980s New York soundscapes and timeshift transitions. USF, April 2019. Dir. Dora Arreola<\/p>\n

Doors<\/strong>\u00a0Impressionistic abstract soundscapes mixed with sounds created by a metal sculpture by Mark Aeling. Beacon Dance Concert, April 2019. Dir. Sheila Cowley<\/p>\n

Copenhagen<\/strong> Tampa Repertory Theatre, January 2019. Dir.Emilia Sargent<\/p>\n

Heisenberg<\/strong> Tampa Repertory Theatre, September 2018. Dir. Jim Sorensen<\/p>\n

A View From The Bridge<\/strong> Tampa Repertory Theatre, June 2018. Dir. C. David Frankel<\/p>\n

Gnit<\/strong> Tampa Repertory Theatre, Tampa, January 2018. Dir. C. David Frankel<\/p>\n

Flying<\/b> WWII propaganda films mixed with airplanes, ground to air radio transmissions and impressionistic small-town soundscapes. Tampa Repertory Theatre, September-October 2017. Dir. Robin Gordon.<\/p>\n

Machinal<\/b> Mechanical sounds and Expressionist soundscape. University of South Florida, September 2017.\u00a0 Dir. Dora Arreola.<\/p>\n

The Other Place <\/b>Interpretive soundscapes of memory loss. Tampa Repertory Theatre, June 2017. Dir. C. David Frankel. Winner, Best of the Bay Award, Best Sound Design.<\/p>\n

The Azure Sky in Oz<\/b>\u00a0 Wizard of Oz-inspired setting. Production of The Heather at the Straz\/Shimberg Theatre, April 2017. Dir. Padriac Lillis.<\/p>\n

Grounded<\/b> immersive flight and battle soundscapes. Tampa Repertory Theatre, January 2017. Dir. C. David Frankel.<\/p>\n

The Mathematics of Love<\/b> time-shifting soundscapes, Southeastern premiere. University of South Florida, September 2016. Dir. Dora Arreola.<\/p>\n

St Pete Synesthesia<\/b> soundscape for devised dance performance. The Studio@620, March 2016.<\/p>\n

Fantastic Ekphrastic <\/b>soundscapes and spot effects for live performances of poetry, prose and theatre inspired by visual art. Soft Water Studios, St. Petersburg, February 2016.<\/p>\n

Inherit The Wind<\/b>\u00a0 1940s town. Stageworks Theatre, Tampa, March 2016. Dir. C. David Frankel.<\/p>\n

In The Blood<\/b>\u00a0 Impressionistic urban soundscape including location recordings. Stageworks Theatre, Tampa, February 2016. Dir. Fanni Green.<\/p>\n

A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/b> Modern club soundscape. University of South Florida, February 2016. Guest Director Richard Beecham, UK.<\/p>\n

9 Parts of Desire<\/b>\u00a0 Baghdad soundscapes in surround sound, battle scenes. University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance, November 2015. Dir. Andrea Assad.<\/p>\n

Pantomime<\/b>\u00a0 Rural Caribbean soundscapes. University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance, October 2015. Dir. Henry Muttoo.<\/p>\n

Betrayal<\/b>\u00a0 Urban locations. Tampa Repertory Theatre, May 2015. Dir. C. David Frankel.<\/p>\n

A Tale of Two Cities<\/b>\u00a0 Period soundscapes and custom destruction, tailored to Movement Design by Jonnie Riordan of Frantic Assembly. Guest Director Eduard Lewis, UK. University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance, February 2015.<\/p>\n

The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry<\/b>\u00a0 Continuous surround soundscape of 19th-century rural Oklahoma, custom death knells based on Native mythology. Lark Play Development Center NY\u2019s Rolling World Premiere. Dir. Fanni Green. University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance, April 2014.<\/p>\n

A Question of Words<\/b>\u00a0 Realistic apartment and elevator. Studio@620, March 2014. Dir. Bob Devin Jones.<\/p>\n

The Rocks Are Gonna Cry Out<\/b>\u00a0 19th-century Oklahoma soundscape for radio. Advance for Lark Play Development Center Rolling World Premiere, April 2013. Dir. Fanni Green.<\/p>\n

The Butter Battle Book<\/b> Detailed soundscape derived from mechanical sounds, radio adaptation of Dr. Seuss for Read Across America Day, broadcast on WMNF Tampa.<\/p>\n

The Lorax<\/b>\u00a0 Detailed soundscape derived from natural sounds, radio adaptation of Dr. Seuss for Read Across America Day, broadcast on WMNF Tampa.<\/p>\n

Live Foley Performance<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Radio Theatre Project<\/b>\u00a0 Foley performance and sound design for new works of audio theatre performed for a live audience. The Studio@620, St. Petersburg FL. 2009-present.<\/p>\n

The War of the Worlds<\/b> Various venues, Tampa Bay, 2014. Dir. James Rayfield.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Custom soundscapes and spot effects that create an immersive, imaginative world for your story \u2013 sound that brings your unique world to life. Professional sound design can help you make the leap from an okay production to an outstanding one. Our carefully crafted audio won\u2019t sound like an mp3 pulled off the web. A storm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/128south.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/128south.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/128south.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/128south.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/128south.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/128south.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/128south.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/128south.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}