News

2006 - 2005

Hear No Evil is now in the USA, in Temple Texas to be more precise. a short drive north of Austin, music capital of the South. We are launching our new mix room in collaboration with esession.com.

This means that customers can send files to be mixed via the esession protocol and in particular, for them to have surround versions of their music.

As in London, we can also offer a full DVD authoring service from the Texas premises under the guise of See No Evil.

We can also prep stuff in Texas and then take it back to the superbly equipped London studio to run it through the analogue Euphonix for final tweaks.

SeeNoEvil were comissioned at the eleventh hour by the creative design agency Placebo to create a DVD for for continuous playback of their animation extolling the benefits of Broadcast Freelancers job service. Plus a special DVD for selling the ideas to the clients. One all nighter later job done client happy . . . it's morning and time for bed !

Ian Greaves of SeeNoEvil was commissioned by DTS to catch the intrepid duo of Rodney Orpheus and Jeff Levison on video as they taught us all a thing or two about surround sound at France Television Publicite, Paris, and London's own BAFTA.

They went on to unveiled DTS's new secret weapon the DTS HD encoder Decoder "do everything' software to an enthusastic crowd of who's who in content authoring and music mastering.

When HD DVD and BluRay disc hits your local high street store these guys rest assured that these guys have the high def audio covered.

Rob Lane has won both the BAFTA and the Ivor for his music for “Elizabeth’, recorded and mixed here.

And talking of awards, Adrian Johnston has been nominated for an Emmy for Stephen Poliakov’s ‘Gideon’s Daughter’. Recorded and mixed..well, you know where!

Once again Steve Parr has been awarded the prize for best surround mix at the Surround Music Awards held at the Beverly Hilton in LA. This year it was for "Reich at the Roxy", a live album of the music of Steve Reich performed by Alarm Will Sound and recorded by Steve Parr in New York.

The concert was filmed in high definition video and audio recorded at 96k 24bit. After editing by producer Mike Roberts (Sweetspot Productions), Steve and Mike mixed the concert in both 6.1 surround and stereo at Hear No Evil studio.

Steve says "this was probably the most difficult mix I have ever had to accomplish. It was like rescuing a child from a burning building; the material was so complex and demanding on the ears and it took the best part of a year before we were happy with the mixes".

Steve Reich as said that he considers it the best performance and recording ever of his work.

Both Rob Lane and Martin Phipps have been recording and mixing their respective scores for Channel 4’s Elizabeth 1 and BBC’s The Virgin Queen back to back throughout September.

Very confusing with many of the same musicians on successive days recording to two sets of actors playing the same roles. With Hear No Evil and contractors Cool Music being the only common link, we were sworn to secrecy over the prospective scheduling of the two programs.

HearNoEvil and SeeNoEvil worked jointly on an independent first feature film "I Said So Little" by Lydzia Englert and Stefano Azario, with music by Tim Sutton, before they rush off to try their luck at Cannes film festival.

Its summertime again and so while you lot have been down to the seaside with your buckets & spades, we’ve been turning our minds to more mundane things like insuring that everybody’s going to be like cucumbers when you return. To that aim, we have replaced the air conditioning in both the control room and the main studio area courtesy of our friends at Lennox Jones Air Con.
Terry Macquaide as usual has been supervising the refit, and has also taken the opportunity to tighten up the acoustics with the refurbishment of the various parts of the building structure.

So, all in all, a more comfortable HEAR NO EVIL awaits!

We have bought our See No Evil business home to roost with a new Post Production room set up and equiped with ProTools HD programming for Audio Post.

We are also setup for HD and SD online Video Editing & Post Production based around Apple's Final Cut Studio software and HD hardware capability

For those motion graphic and compositing moments we are using Motion, Shake and After Effects.

And let's not forget DVD Authoring and encoding of virtually every format that man has invented.

For more details of these new facilities please contact Ian on 020 7385 9000 or see our facilities and services sections.

We have been churning out film & TV soundtracks at a rate of knots during the last few months in addition to regular favorites such as 8 episodes of Silent Witness composed by Sheridan Tongue, the award winning Blackpool (Rob Lane received yet another Ivor Novello for the score) and of course CSI.

SeenoEvil has been busy producing producing a promo DVD for Pennies Music of all those popular Ads that you just can't get out of your head once you've heard them such as Coco Cola, Lilt, Branston Pickle and Yop !

Hard working Adrian Johnston has completed no less than 5 scores at Hear No Evil this year, including 2 more dramas, written by Stephen Poliakoff - Friends and Crocodiles, and Gideon's Daughter.

He is closely followed by the aforementioned Rob Lane with scores for BBC classic drama To The Ends of The Earth, the Hilary Swank feature Red Dust, cold war drama Archangel, a documentary feature about Abraham Lincoln and the retrospective documentary Live Aid Remembered which was aired before the recent Live 8 megaconcert.

Phew !

It was also great to have Charlie Mole back to record the score for Guy X and Joby Talbot for League of Gentlemen.

On the contemporary music scene, Tom Smail recorded and mixed music for his versions of Little Red Ridinghood and Sleeping Beauty featuring voiceovers by Harry Enfield and Carl Davis recorded a solo piano version of his score for ballet Cyrano de Bergerac.

Kevin Sargent recorded and mixed the music for a new version of Macbeth set in a celebrity kitchen, with bin men taking the roles of the three witches!