Bang (company)

Last updated
BANG
TypeIndependent
Industry Advertising, music, production, audio post production
Founded1989
Headquarters
New York City, New York
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people

Brian Jones
Brad Stratton
Lyle Greenfield
Timo Elliston
Paul Vītolinš
Nick Cipriano
Steve Walsh
Viliam Béreš
Shelby Comstock Britten
Website www.bangworld.com

BANG is a music and audio post production company based in New York City, with office and studios in Prague, which creates original music and provides music supervision, sound design and audio production services for advertising, entertainment and interactive media. [1]

Contents

History

BANG was founded in New York City in January 1989 by former advertising agency creative director Lyle Greenfield. The company was first housed in the studios of hip-hop recording facility, Calliope Productions, where artists such as De La Soul, Queen Latifah, Black Sheep, A Tribe Called Quest, Brand New Heavies and Stereo MCs had recorded their early records.

1990s

In 1993, BANG left Calliope and established its own studios in a two-story brick building in New York's historic Flatiron District. The building, once a horse stable, was converted into the company's recording and office facilities. BANG's early commercial work included songs and scores for Heineken, Sprite, Sony, Mercedes-Benz, KFC International and Ford.

In the mid-1990s BANG formed an independent label imprint, Notorious Records, releasing several dance singles including a remake of Phil Collins’ iconic hit "In The Air Tonight". Billboard praised the recording, calling it "a solid job of linking the song's darkly intense lyrics with a firm house beat and ethereal keyboard." [2]

Industry activism

In 1997, Lyle Greenfield joined a group of music production companies in New York City in discussions concerning fair business practices for music creators in the commercial and entertainment industries. A new trade association was formed, with Greenfield suggesting its moniker - AMP: The Association of Music Producers. (AMP). [3] He was voted AMP's first President and served in that position on the association's national board for two more terms. [4]

Later in 1997, musician Jane Mangini joined the company's roster, scoring dozens of commercials and recording an album of original compositions at BANG's studios under the artist name O'2L. [5] While at BANG she signed a record deal with Peak Records in Los Angeles and also became a touring keyboardist for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. [6]

2000s

In mid-2000, Brian Jones joined BANG as senior producer and composer, leaving his position at William Morris Agency in New York.

Sara Iversen (née Russo) joined the company as a senior producer and marketing strategist in 2000. She had worked previously for advertising agencies, first as account executive at DeVito/Verdi, then at Lowe Worldwide on the GMC business.

In 2001, Espen Noreger, best known as the drummer for Norwegian rock band The Getaway People, joined BANG as a composer.

In 2004 Jones was made a full partner in Bang Music. [7] In the years that followed his writing credits expanded beyond commercial to include TV programs and series on NBC, Bravo, TLC, Sundance Film Festival, CBS, Spike, Lifetime, ESPN and E! as well as dozens of commercial spots for National brands. [8]

In early 2008 Brad Stratton joined BANG as Executive Producer and partner. Previously, Stratton had helped establish Sound Lounge Music in New York, was a senior producer at Fluid Post and was head of music production at D’Arcy Advertising in New York. [9]

2010–present

In 2010, Jones was commissioned as music supervisor for the premiere season of the CBS drama Blue Bloods. At the same time, BANG continued to expand its work in film and interactive audio production with several films featured at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals as well as over 50 games and apps for The Walt Disney Company. BANG's commercial output continued to grow with original music scores for national and international brands including Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Victoria's Secret, Google, McDonald's, Cisco, Samsonite, L'Oreal, Cover Girl, AT&T, American Express, Folger's, Reese's, Guinness, MLB, NFL and others.

Composer-musician Timo Elliston joined BANG in 2012. His formal education and experience anticipated the company's continued push into longer-form video and film content. [10]

Spotify Sessions

In 2012, Senior Engineer Paul Vītolinš joined BANG, supporting the company's increasing work in audio post production. In addition, Vītolinš spearheaded BANG's work with music streaming service, Spotify, recording and mixing live artist sessions in New York City and in tour locations, including at the 2013-2016 SXSW Festivals. By 2017 the company had mixed over 260 live artist session for Spotify, including Kendrick Lamar, John Legend, Jackson Browne, Nate Ruess, Jason Derulo, Run The Jewels, Metallica, Willie Nelson, Passion Pit, Kacey Musgraves, Green Day, and Leon Bridges. BANG's mixing and mastering work for Spotify has continued with Spotify's video content. [11]

In 2013, Nick Cipriano joined the company, also in the capacity of Senior Engineer, providing additional support for the Spotify Sessions mixes, commercial recordings, record mixes, and mastering. In January of the same year, Jones was named President of BANG, succeeding its founder in that position for the first time. [12]

AMP Awards for Music and Sound debuts

In 2013, Greenfield, along with other AMP Board members, created the AMP Awards for Music and Sound, [13] which he had championed among member companies for several years. The AMP Awards debuted on May 7 in New York City and has become the only industry event in the U.S. honoring excellence in music for advertising, branding and media. In 2015, Greenfield began writing a regular column for SHOOTonline about music and popular culture under the heading Earwitness. [14]

BANG Europe opens in Prague

In 2015, at the initiative of Stratton, who’d lived and worked in the former Czech Republic in the mid 1990s, BANG opened an office and recording studio in Prague to service commercial music and audio post projects originating in the EU markets. Situated within the walls of Eallin Motion Arts, [15] a modern animation and mixed media production company, partners in the BANG EU operation are composer-musician-producers Viliam Béreš and Steve Walsh. In October, Shelby Comstock Britten [16] joined BANG in New York as studio and production manager, coordinating operations between both the music and audio post divisions and New York-Prague.

BANG Audio Post formed

In 2016 BANG formalized its growing business in the area of audio post production by forming a discrete division, BANG Audio Post, with engineers Vītolinš and Cipriano as partners and VPs and Stratton as President. Titles in post production at BANG Audio Post include Season 9 of Ink Master and Ink Master Angels for Spike; Finding Escobar’s Millions, Discovery Channel; I Love You But I Lied, Lifetime; 73 Questions, Vogue; Landmark: Metallica, Spotify. [17]

In May 2017, Elliston and Jones completed the original music score for National Geographic’s 6-part documentary Year Million. [18] In September BANG’s work for agency Digitas and client Accenture Strategy in producing a live orchestral performance of Symphonologie at the Louvre in Paris was awarded a Silver Clio. [19]

Related Research Articles

Record producer Individual who oversees and manages the recording of an artists music

A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure. The record producer, or simply the producer, is likened to film director and art director. The executive producer, on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrepreneurship, and an audio engineer operates the technology.

Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to refer to electronic music generally.

Recording studio Facility for sound recording

A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home project studio large enough to record a single singer-guitarist, to a large building with space for a full orchestra of 100 or more musicians. Ideally, both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician or audio engineer to achieve optimum acoustic properties.

A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. Jingles are a form of sound branding. A jingle contains one or more hooks and meaning that explicitly promote the product or service being advertised, usually through the use of one or more advertising slogans. Ad buyers use jingles in radio and television commercials; they can also be used in non-advertising contexts to establish or maintain a brand image. Many jingles are also created using snippets of popular songs, in which lyrics are modified to appropriately advertise the product or service.

Jones Radio Networks Former American radio syndication network

Jones Radio Networks & Jones Media Group were branches of Jones International before being sold to Triton Media Group. JRN and JMN provide local radio stations with satellite-delivered formats. They also offer other services to local radio such as news and talk programs, syndicated radio shows, music scheduling, show preparation, and music and sales Research. Jones Media Network also owns many national syndication shows such as Lia, All Night with Danny Wright, The Ed Schultz Show, The Stephanie Miller Show, The Bill Press Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Clark Howard Show, and A&E Network's Live by Request. Jones Media Networks & Jones Radio Networks own production studios in: New York, NY; Los Angeles; Chicago; Washington, DC; Seattle, WA; Centennial, CO; and Florida. Clark Howard and Neal Boortz are broadcast from the studios of WSB-AM in Atlanta, GA; those shows are produced by Cox Radio. Jones Media Networks reaches about 1.3 billion weekly listeners in radio. In 2006, Jones purchased TM Century, a Dallas-based company providing jingles and production services for radio stations across the country.

Greene St. Recording was a New York City recording studio, located at 112 Greene Street in SoHo, Manhattan, until its closure in 2001. It was one of the early headquarters of hip hop music during the 1980s and 1990s.

Jaime Cuadra

Jaime Cuadra Peruvian Music Producer, Marketing Specialist, Singer and Composer. He produced 3 songs of the original scores for the James Bond movie "Quantum Of Solace" and he is currently Peruvian Cultural Ambassador.

Lyle John Greenfield is an American music production executive and past president of the national board of theAssociation of Music Producers.

Audio engineer Engineer involved in the recording, reproduction, or reinforcement of sound

An audio engineer helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the "technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, pre-amp knobs, the setting of levels. The physical recording of any project is done by an engineer... the nuts and bolts."

Institute of Audio Research Defunct educational institution

The Institute of Audio Research (IAR) was an educational institution in New York City. Students of IAR were offered a wide variety of academic programs in the field of music production and audio engineering. Students could choose from courses in audio electronics, digital music production, mixing music, and audio processing and storage, among others. It was founded in 1969 and closed in 2017. It has resurfaced as part of Five Towns College in 2022.

Armstrong Studios, also known as Bill Armstrong's Studio and later renamed AAV, is an Australian commercial recording studio located in Melbourne, Victoria. During the decade from 1965 to 1975, Armstrong Studios in South Melbourne was arguably the top independent recording studio in Australasia.

Wylie Stateman is an American sound director, supervising sound editor, sound designer, and post production media entrepreneur. Stateman has supervised over 150 sound projects, resulting in 9 Academy Awards, 6 BAFTA Awards, 3 Primetime Emmy Awards, and over 30 Motion Picture Sound Editor Awards. He also received a Science Technology award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1994 for Audio Track’s Advanced Data Encoding (ADE) System. In 2021 he won an Emmy Award for his sound design in Netflix’s original series ‘The Queen’s Gambit’.

Method Studios Visual effects studio

Method Studios is a visual effects company launched in 1999 in Los Angeles, California with facilities in New York, Atlanta, Vancouver, San Francisco, Melbourne, Montreal, and Pune. The company provides production and post-production services including conceptual design, look development, on-set supervision, 3D animation/CGI, matte painting, AR/VR, compositing and finishing.

Anthony Marinelli American songwriter

Anthony Marinelli is an American musician, composer and conductor. In his early career, he composed and performed accompaniment on the synthesizer for albums including Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983). Marinelli has also recorded with Lionel Richie, Kenny Loggins, Herb Alpert, Supertramp, The Crystal Method, Billy Childs and James Brown.

Jason Kramer is a music supervisor and American radio personality. He is best known for his weekly radio show on Santa Monica, California-based, freeform public radio station KCRW.

Vulfpeck American band

Vulfpeck is an American funk group founded in 2011. The band has released four EPs, six albums, several compilations, and a silent album on Spotify titled Sleepify, royalties from which funded Vulfpeck's admission-free tour in 2014. The band releases music independently through Vulf Records, which also publishes a host of other side projects by band members. The band's most recent album, Vulf Vault 006: Here We Go Jack, was released in August 2022.

Antfood is a creative audio studio with offices in New York, São Paulo, and Amsterdam. Antfood is a collaborative of composers, engineers, producers, and sound designers that create audio for film, advertisements, and interactive installations.

David Park (music producer) Musical artist

David Park, better known as Davidior, is a Korean-American record producer, audio engineer, musician, songwriter and singer. He was a protégé of Bram Tobey, 2004–2006. Park first worked in the Staten Island underground music scene in the early 2000s, providing beats, recording and mixing songs, tracks and mixtapes for local artists.

Lenise Diane Bent is an American audio engineer who has worked in both the music and film industry. She was one of a handful of women working in the Hollywood recording studio business in a technical role during the 1970s, and was the first woman to receive an RIAA Platinum album for her engineering of AutoAmerican by Blondie.

Peter Doell is an American recording and mastering engineer known for his work with Miles Davis, Toto, Céline Dion and The Beach Boys. Doell has been a staff engineer at Capitol Studios, Sunset Sound Recorders and Universal Mastering Studios West. His film and TV work includes Road To Perdition, Black Hawk Down and Monsters, Inc., American Idol, The Voice and Empire.

References

  1. ↑ "BANGWORLD | ABOUT". www.bangworld.com. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  2. ↑ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (19 July 1997). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Home". AMP: Association of Music Producers.
  4. ↑ "AMP Announces New Officers For 2008 National Board Organization Marks Its 10th Anniversary With Several New Initiatives".
  5. ↑ "O'2l - Concord Music".
  6. ↑ "Jane Mangini biography - Last.fm". Last.fm.
  7. ↑ "SourceEcreative". Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
  8. ↑ "Brian Jones". IMDb.
  9. ↑ "Brad Stratton". LinkedIn .
  10. ↑ "Timo Elliston". IMDb.
  11. ↑ "[Interview] In the Studio with Bang's Audio Magicians » Whalebone". 23 May 2017.
  12. ↑ "Nick Cipriano". IMDb.
  13. ↑ "Contact Information - AMP Awards For Music and Sound". www.awardcore.com.
  14. ↑ "- SHOOTonline".
  15. ↑ "Eallin Animation Production Company". eallin.com.
  16. ↑ "Shelby Comstock Britten". LinkedIn .
  17. ↑ "Paul Vitolins". IMDb.
  18. ↑ "Year Million" – via www.imdb.com.
  19. ↑ "Accenture - Symphonologie".
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.