How ‘Moonage Daydream’ Let David Bowie Narrate His Own Documentary

How does one make a documentary about David Bowie, a prolific musician who frequently reinvented himself as a performer, sound great? That was the challenge facing the Emmy-nominated sound crew beh…

“He’s a unique artistic genius,” points out re-recording mixer David Giammarco. “How do you do something like we’ve never seen before?”

The film’s soundtrack needed to be mixed in a number of formats including Imax 12.0 and 5.0, Dolby Atmos, 7.1 and 5.1 theatrical as well as Home Atmos 5.1 and stereo. One such example was Bowie’s 1974 song “Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me,” from “Diamond Dogs.” “It came in at the last minute,” Massey recalls. “It was a two-track, but worse than that, it was a Betacam Superior Performance recording.” While the resolution was enhanced for the time, the quality was mono. “It was horrible.” But it was all they had, “so we made the most of it. We opened it up and turned it into a 7.1 sound mix.

While it wasn’t the highest quality audio-wise because of distortion, the team was still able to make it work. “It actually ended up fitting the moment and the emotion of where Brett wanted the audience to be at that moment.”

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