Larry Blake
- Known for
- Sound
Biography
Larry Blake is a supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer of feature films. He has mixed over 65 features since 1989, and was also the supervising sound editor on 50 of them. Included in this number are 29 features and three television seasons with Steven Soderbergh, plus multiple films from Victor Nunez, David Gordon Green, and the Duplass Brothers. In addition, he has mixed 15 feature-length documentaries. In 2013 won both Emmy and Cinema Audio Society awards for Best Sound for a Miniseries or a Movie for his work on Behind the Candelabra. In 2002 he won a Golden Satellite Award for Solaris. He has written extensively on film sound, beginning in 1981 for Recording Engineer/Producer and then in Mix; these writings total over 110 columns and 35 feature articles. He soon will be publishing separate anthologies of the columns and features, in addition to the autobiography of film sound great Murray Spivack. First up is a book he’s writing on the digital archiving of motion pictures, Solving the Digital Dilemma. Following from his work as a writer, he has curated many seminars on film sound for the Director’s Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, SMPTE, and the Audio Engineering Society. He has been a guest speaker at the Camerimage Film Festival, USC, UCLA, and the Savannah College of Art and Design, among many others. From 2000-2016 he owned Swelltone Labs, a post-production sound facility in New Orleans, where he lives.
Known For
Filmography
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Movie · Sound Supervisor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Magic Mike's Last Dance
Movie · Sound Designer
Full Circle
TV · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer · 6 eps
Kimi
Movie · Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
No Sudden Move
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer
The Laundromat
Movie · Sound Designer
Shirkers
Movie · Sound Recordist
Cut Off
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Generators, Noise Reduction, and Multitrack Audiotape
Movie · Sound Mixer
Mosaic
TV · Sound Designer · 6 eps
Logan Lucky
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer
Camera Store
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Magic Mike XXL
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
The Voices
Movie · ADR Mixer
King of Herrings
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Behind the Candelabra
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Side Effects
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Tim's Vermeer
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Magic Mike
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Contagion
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Love, Wedding, Marriage
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Haywire
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Cyrus
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Race
Movie · Sound Editor
And Everything Is Going Fine
Movie · Sound Post Production Coordinator
The Informant!
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
The Girlfriend Experience
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Che: Part One
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Che: Part Two
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor
Snow Angels
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Ocean's Thirteen
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
The Puffy Chair
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The Good German
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Designer
Downtown Locals
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
By Invitation Only
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Syriana
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
A Player to Be Named Later
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Undertow
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Ocean's Twelve
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Straight Into Darkness
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Scrapple
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ball and Chain
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Eros
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Keane
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Before Sunset
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Criminal
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Chicken Party
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Solaris
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Coastlines
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Welcome to Collinwood
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Full Frontal
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ocean's Eleven
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Waking Life
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The Journeyman
Movie · Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Traffic
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Erin Brockovich
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Housebound
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Effects, Supervising Sound Editor
The Limey
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
How to Make the Cruelest Month
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Out of Sight
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Schizopolis
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Love Jones
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
The Pallbearer
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor
Gray's Anatomy
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Deep in the Heart
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The Underneath
Movie · Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Fresh
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
King of the Hill
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Lush Life
Movie · Sound Editor
Kafka
Movie · Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
sex, lies, and videotape
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Editor
Monkey Shines
Movie · Sound Effects Editor
The Last Slumber Party
Movie · Sound
Yes - 9012Live
Movie · Sound
Access All Areas
Movie · Sound Recordist