Stephen Swift

​Stephen is designing sound for “Personal Mythology – An American Odyssey” a dance piece conceived and choreographed by Jenn Lott.  Performances will be at 6:30 and 8pm on Tuesday, May 21st at UC Irvine’s xMPL theater in the Contemporary Arts Center.  We’re examining our lives growing up as an American in the last part of the 20th century, the stories we were told, and how that shapes the stories we tell others.

Stephen just finished composing forThe VisitWritten by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Directed by Jane Page.  A run down town in rust belt America gets an unusual chance to return to its glory days, but at what price?  I created improvised blues music for the fictional town band we invented.

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​Button Willow Locomotive came into the Meyer Sound Design Studio in June 2012 to record a demo of a new song of theirs. I was producer and recording engineer.

Alex Heflin: mandolin, backup vocals
Amanda Carson: lead vocals, guitar
Albert Law: drums
Kyle Gustafson: bass

​We recorded the song in one Saturday afternoon, and had a lot of fun during the session.  We tracked bass, mandolin, and drums together, then added in guitar and vocals. I then mixed the song on the studio’s ProTools 9 D-Command rig.  The lead vocal effect is done with the Waves HMX Harmonics Generator… a goto plugin for me when I want a rich lush sound.  Have a Listen!