In all my professional life I have never worked with anyone who understood the deepest texture of sound like Mark Mangini.
Werner Herzog
For nearly fifty years, two-time Academy Award-winning sound designer Mark Mangini has helped shape the way movies sound—and the way audiences experience them. From his beginnings at Hanna-Barbera and Star Trek: The Motion Picture to Raiders of the Lost Ark, Gremlins, The Fifth Element, Mad Max: Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049 and Dune, Mangini has spent a lifetime recording, inventing and manipulating sound in the service of story. Did You Hear That? takes us behind the scenes of those films and many others, revealing not only how some of cinema’s most memorable sounds were created, but why they were created in the first place.
Part memoir, part masterclass and part invitation to listen more closely, Did You Hear That? is filled with stories of ingenious solutions, happy accidents, creative battles, technological upheavals and collaborations with some of the most celebrated filmmakers of the past half-century. And this is a book to be heard as well as read: throughout, Mangini gives readers access to the recordings, experiments and finished sounds he discusses. The result is an exploration of sound as one of cinema’s most powerful—and least understood—storytelling tools, written by a man who has spent his life listening to the world differently. You may never hear a movie the same way again.
Mark Mangini shares his magic in this ingenious new memoir which allows the reader to actually sample the sonics he writes about. A must-have!
Joe Dante
Mark Mangini has pushed the boundaries of the soundscape, becoming one of the contemporary masters of sound design.
Denis Villeneuve
Mark Mangini is a two time Academy Award-winning and six time Oscar nominated sound designer. In an illustrious career spanning fifty years, he has spent his life imagining and composing altered sonic realities for motion pictures. His website is here.
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