Pete Horner: The Emotional Language of Film
When Pete Horner works on a film, he often feels like a translator, translating from a language he’s discovering to a language he’s making up. In this presentation he’ll play examples and discuss how he approaches the sound design and mix of a film.
Pete Horner is an Emmy-winning sound designer and re-recording mixer at Skywalker Sound. He studied percussion and music recording at the Cleveland Institute of Music and discovered the musicality of film sound at American Zoetrope working on films such as: Apocalypse Now Redux, The Virgin Suicides, and a 5.1 remix of The Conversation. At Skywalker he's worked on a wide range of projects from the family film How To Train Your Dragon to Errol Morris’s Abu Ghraib prison doc, Standard Operating Procedure. In 2007, Walter Murch asked him to work as sound designer and mixer on Francis Coppola’s Youth Without Youth, and in 2009 as a mixer on Tetro. In 2012 he designed and mixed Philip Kaufman’s Hemingway and Gellhorn, for which he won an Emmy. In 2013 he won the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Sound Design for his work on Upstream Color. Recently Pete finished work on Jurassic World, Best of Enemies, Romeo is Bleeding and Twenty Feet From Stardom.
Pete Horner is an Emmy-winning sound designer and re-recording mixer at Skywalker Sound. He studied percussion and music recording at the Cleveland Institute of Music and discovered the musicality of film sound at American Zoetrope working on films such as: Apocalypse Now Redux, The Virgin Suicides, and a 5.1 remix of The Conversation. At Skywalker he's worked on a wide range of projects from the family film How To Train Your Dragon to Errol Morris’s Abu Ghraib prison doc, Standard Operating Procedure. In 2007, Walter Murch asked him to work as sound designer and mixer on Francis Coppola’s Youth Without Youth, and in 2009 as a mixer on Tetro. In 2012 he designed and mixed Philip Kaufman’s Hemingway and Gellhorn, for which he won an Emmy. In 2013 he won the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Sound Design for his work on Upstream Color. Recently Pete finished work on Jurassic World, Best of Enemies, Romeo is Bleeding and Twenty Feet From Stardom.
