PETER KURLAND - Production Sound Mixer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 130 - Peter Kurland - Production Sound Mixer

Production sound mixer Peter Kurland (THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, WALK THE LINE) joins us in this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. We’ve worked with Peter many times over the years, and we had a wonderful time catching up with him. In the beginning of the episode, Peter shares the two versions of his origin story, both of which begin in Nashville, and we learn how he was repeatedly enlisted in roles in the sound department without any training. A former boom op, Peter also fills us in on the subtle differences between boom mics and radio mics, and we learn how Peter communicates potential sound problems to a director and to production at large. Peter also shares how he best fulfills requests from post-production, and we discuss how we try to capture what the director wants, even when they don’t want to think about it. And, at the end, Peter shares his thoughts on recent changes in the film industry.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations
0:10.1	between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:14.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:28.7	This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a premier manufacturer of LED lighting with the industry's greatest variety of fixtures for your complete lighting needs.
0:33.8	Aperture recently announced the new storm family of lights.
0:43.4	With LED white light quality that matches natural daylight and classic tungsten bulbs,
0:47.3	plus extreme low-end dimming while maintaining color quality.
0:59.0	Discover more about the new storm lights and the complete Aperture lighting ecosystem at Aperture.com. Today we're speaking with an onset sound mixer.
1:02.0	His credits are many and include Fargo, Men in Black, and Walk the Line.
1:07.0	We're pleased to welcome Peter Curlin.
1:09.0	Peter, thank you for doing this.
1:11.7	I'm thrilled to be here and it's nice to see you.
1:14.7	We'd like to start with a question, how did you get to where you are today?
1:18.8	Were you as a child very conscious of sounds around you?
1:22.8	I think your father was a violinist and a music arranger.
1:26.8	Did that steer you towards sound? What's your
1:29.5	story? Well, there's like two versions of the story, and the first version is... Which one do you
1:36.0	want commonly known? They're both okay, though. The second one is really more true. But the first one is,
1:43.7	you know, my father was a concert violinist, Juilliard trained,
1:46.5	and he also was a music professor.
1:49.1	And so when I was a kid, he had tape recorders in the house, which we experimented with,
1:54.0	which were really fun.
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