''The Distortion of Sound'' is a 2014 advertisement for
Harman produced by
Vice Media. The advertisement presents itself as a documentary on the decline of
sound quality in music distributed with
lossy compression algorithms. The ad features paid interviews with vocalists, guitarists, producers, writers, rappers, film composers, mixing engineers, mixers, music journalists, acoustic researchers, loudspeaker engineers and chief engineers—including such artists as
Mike Shinoda of
Linkin Park,
Slash,
Quincy Jones,
Snoop Dogg and
Steve Aoki.
The ad was uploaded to
YouTube
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using YouTube's lossy audio compression. The trailer of the film was also available on YouTube. The ad, as well as a trailer, was available on the official website of the film.
The film was premiered at a paid event in
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...
on July 10, 2014.
Cast
The film includes the following various musical artists:
*
Quincy Jones
*
Slash
*
Snoop Dogg
*
Steve Aoki
*
Lianne La Havas
*
Mike Shinoda
*
Hans Zimmer
*
Kate Nash
*
A. R. Rahman
*
Dan the Automator
*
Manny Marroquin
*
Andrew Scheps
*
Neil Strauss
* Dr. Sean Olive
* Greg Timbers
* Chris Ludwig
Clips
The original film included clips of interviews. All the clips were uploaded separately on the official YouTube channel in the given sequences.
Music
The original score for the film was composed by
Lorne Balfe.
"Lorne Balfe composing The Distortion of Sound"
'' Hans Zimmer'' July 8, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014. Whereas the film used only three songs out of which one is the collaboration between Linkin Park and Steve Aoki, and the other two songs are performed by Lianne La Havas. Whereas the song "Holding Company (Lost in the Echo 2011 Demo)" from the '' LP Underground XIII'' extended play was briefly used in the trailer for the film.
References
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Documentary films about the music industry
Documentary films about technology
2014 films
2014 documentary films
American documentary films
Sound recording technology
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
English-language documentary films