Video Credits
Production Company: The Napoleon Group
Client: Con Edison
Executive Producer and Writer: Christopher Stetson
Creative Director: Ken Kresge
Producers: Perry Morton, Shelley Cheung
Art Supervisor: Scott Stein
Storyboard Artist: Norm Morales
Art/Animation: Bill Plympton
Editor: Shaun Reuter
Audio Engineer: Stephane Guyot
Stephen Arnold Music Creates Immersive Soundscapes for Histoveryโs โSurrounded: The Alamo Augmented Experienceโ
Stephen Arnold Music (SAM), the world leader in sonic branding, recreated the sounds of the most storied site in Texas history for Surrounded: The Alamo Augmented Experience now on view at The Alamo in San Antonio. SAM produced stunningly realistic, immersive soundscapes for the groundbreaking AR attraction, which takes visitors on a journey through The Alamoโs 300-year history. The sound environments bring vividly to life the rich, natural ambience of the site in six distinct time periods, as well as battle sounds and the voices of Native Americans, Spanish friars and the heroic defenders The Alamo. Surrounded: The Alamo Augmented Experience was produced by Histovery, a leader in augmented reality experiences. Using a handheld tablet with a custom app, The HistoPad, Alamo visitors experience its history as never before. Holding the tablet up to any number of โtimeportalsโ throughout the tour brings to life interactive characters, immersive clips and 360-degree animations from across time. "With HistoPad, youโre no longer a spectatorโyouโre an active part of history," said Asia Laird, Managing Director of Histovery U.S. โItโs a new way to enjoy and learn the Alamo story,โ says SAM president and creative director Chad Cook. โYou feel as though you are standing in the Alamo as it looked and sounded in 1813, 1836 and 1907. Itโs living history.โ SAM created soundscapes and dialogue specific to the different periods featured in the attraction, from the founding of Mission San Antonio de Valero in the 18th century to the beginning of efforts to preserve the site in 1907. Drawing on meticulous research and guidance from historians, the studioโs sound designers reproduced the sounds of the Battle of the... Read More