Music on Film is a new podcast that discusses as many aspects of audiovisual marriage as possible. Guests might include a film composer, a director with a propensity for visionary soundtracks, a musician who is featured in a film, or in the case of today’s premiere episode, the subject of a music documentary. In this episode, I speak with Butch Vig, the co-founder of Madison, Wisconsin's Smart Studios and the executive producer and interview subject of the new documentary, The Smart Studios Story. He is also a founding member of the band, Garbage. In the the early years of Smart, Vig, who had a lifelong penchant for the act of recording in the most Diy sense, opened the studio namely to record his own music...
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- 11/25/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Chicago – Cimm Fest is back to save the world from ordinary film festivals! The Chicago International Music and Movies Festival (Cimm, baby!) launches on April 13, 2016, with “The Smart Studios Story,” directed by Wendy Schneider, with appearances by Butch Vig and Steve Marker of Smart Studios.
Filmmaker Schneider has created a chronological tale of two music lovers and a dream that developed into Smart Studios of Madison, Wisconsin. This story eventually evolved into the sound that changed everything – the “Nevermind” album from Nirvana, produced by the Smart Studios’ Butch Vig. Using archival footage and interviews with the main players, Schneider brings back a time and place that can never be again, but also has vibrations to this very day. The film will premiere at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago, and will be followed by an after party at the Cabaret Metro (home of so many of that era’s...
Filmmaker Schneider has created a chronological tale of two music lovers and a dream that developed into Smart Studios of Madison, Wisconsin. This story eventually evolved into the sound that changed everything – the “Nevermind” album from Nirvana, produced by the Smart Studios’ Butch Vig. Using archival footage and interviews with the main players, Schneider brings back a time and place that can never be again, but also has vibrations to this very day. The film will premiere at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago, and will be followed by an after party at the Cabaret Metro (home of so many of that era’s...
- 4/13/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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