by | Dec 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Getting your subscribers to contribute to your podcast is one thing, but using that listener support to help bring in a 40-person choir for your audio drama’s soundtrack is a great way to (re-)invest in your own show. When you’re in the U.S. and that 40-person choir is from Budapest, now your show is truly international. That’s what Travis Vengroff can claim in talking about his show “Dark Dice” and the soundtrack he was able to fund and facilitate for it. Already a multi-instrumentalist and producer for 16 years, he knew in early 2018 that he wanted to “give the show my best at a worthy soundtrack. This would be an opportunity to show my strength as a musician and music director, to showcase the work of friends, to do justice to the story, and to challenge myself after about four years of relative musical silence.” Most content creators at some point are faced with a decision regarding audio, but few go to the lengths of enlisting a sound designer or sourcing a 40-person choir from another country. For Vengroff, though, it wasn’t as difficult as it might sound. Leveraging contacts “I called an old friend… who knows how to capture a Hollywood sound without a Hollywood budget, and can turn a basic idea into exactly what I want,” Vengroff explained. “He and I went from idea to arrangement… within a few hours. “From there, he got to work on the choir arrangement, because I felt it would sound much better with an actual choir… I knew a choir in Budapest, and wrote lyrics while Enzo (Puzzovio, a fairly...
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