How Michael Bay’s ‘Songbird’ Sound Team Captured a Pandemic Soundscape

Michael Bay’s “Songbird” now available on-demand, is a pandemic thriller shot in Los Angeles during lockdown.

The film stars Demi Moore, Paul Walter Hauser and Craig Robinson and takes place years in the future, in which a mutated strand of coronavirus, called Covid-23, continues to wreak havoc on the world’s population.As the country-wide lockdown stretches into its fourth year, infected Americans are forced into quarantine camps.

Amid the dystopia, one courier (portrayed by “Riverdale” star Kj Apa) who is immune to the virus, falls in love with an aspiring artist (Sofia Carson), who is believed to become infected.The King Soundworks team: Gregory King, Re-Recording Mixer, Jon Greasley, Re-Recording Mixer and Supervising Sound Designer and John-Thomas Graves, Supervising Sound Editor discuss how the sound of isolation, nature and a pandemic came together for Bay’s thriller.With the lockdown, the soundscape of Los Angeles has changed so

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