Song of Sosa | A Sosa Metalworks Story 

That's the way to do it!

I hear you. At the beginning of the production I always heard free-style drums (not quite jazz) in my mind for Cristian's story and committed to that early on. I knew I would have to go with live recorded drums to make it work (not programmed or sampled). So we did that and Jack recorded a fantastic session drummer. On listening to the recording, it's sounded great. But then applying it to the finished edit was tricky. One of the things Jack does so amazingly with his other scores is match his score to the story - down to the second - and brings lots of beautiful nuance with it too. It was difficult to do that with the way we'd approached the score this time as we only has a limited set of directed recordings to work with, and so a lot of that nuance we seek wasn't there. So, I ended up trying to pull lots of little sections out and rearrange them to try to make up for that. But we learned heaps from our first live instrument recording and keen to do better next time. That said, we stepped way out of our comfort zone and came away with something different and still works.

@@storiesofbike live recordings are always tricky, and in this case with mainly rhythm and no much melody. I apologize it's admittedly not my genre of music. I hear the story and I see the gorgeous footage that you have created; but my brain is searching for the movement of my soul through sound.

I was the same for the longest time, but I also wanted to be true to the spirit of Cristian's philosophy of "chasing the elusive 'blue note'". If I had more time it might have been different. Even melodies are hard with dialogue too, because that becomes its own competing voice. But as I said, I'm chalking this one up to experience for the next one. Thanks for your feedback too, it's always good to hear solid criticism.

You little devil you, Mark.

I'd like to think so. It's certainly unique.

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Thanks mate. 👍🏽

Thanks so much. 🙏🏽

It's definitely one of my favourite episodes. And it's one that makes me want to get back into making more like this. Thanks for the kind words.

Why, thank you kind sir ☺️

The bike sound is in there. Burnout, riding and ride-by. Did you miss it?

Ha! Me too! But it looks more scary than it was. The bike is quite narrow and the chain was well clear of the wheel.

@@storiesofbike nice to hear, I as well as 99.9% of other bikers or just normal people for that matter, hate to see someone get hurt...and that would hurt! I knew I woman years back that got scalped and a broken neck( not paralyzed thankfully ) from her hair in the wheel. Absolutely horrible thing to see. Made me a little gun shy so to speak I guess.

Man, I hear ya. That would sear an image into my brain too. Ride safe!

@@storiesofbike rubber side down and between the lines is all I can try...lol...

The electrics are pretty straightforward. Just make sure that you don't disconnect the kickstand switch 😉

@@storiesofbike ,Thank-you for answering my inquiry, hope the next bike is better than this one (if that's possible 😉) Peace out ✌️