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34 F A L L 2 0 1 7 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y The event's theme was "The Basics" and included, in addition to its regular offerings for the production, post and sound engineers, a series for composers. This was reiterated by the wonderful choice of keynote speaker—film composer/ musician Tom Holkenborg, aka "Junkie XL," whose credits include Black Mass, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Point Break. In fact, an overall takeaway for the whole day was the need for a great deal of communication and collaboration between the music people and those who design, edit, and mix, as well as picture editorial, in order to make an exceptional-sounding final mix. Here are a couple takeaways from some of the day's highlight events: The Composer's Lounge The Composer's Lounge was a new venture this year for the Mix "Sound for Film" symposium. It was designed to bring in the viewpoints of the many professionals who deal with music in the film- and TV-mixing process. 1. The Scoring Process: The Music Team, Relationships, and Mentoring Moderator: Steven Saltzman Panelists: Bobby Fernandez (scoring mixer), Tommy Vicari (scoring mixer) Mix Magazine's 'Sound for Film' Event Mix magazine's fourth annual "Sound for Film" event conference took place on September 16 to an ever-growing crowd of more than 630 attendees. It has truly become an important annual gathering for people who work in sound. The event was hosted at Sony Studios in Culver City, CA, and took place at multiple locations within the Sony Pictures Studios Post-Production Department, in cooperation with event sponsors, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) and Cinema Audio Society (CAS). If there were any complaints this year, it was that there were so many events going on, it was difficult to choose which ones to attend. by Peter Kelsey CAS, David Bondelevitch CAS MPSE, and Karol Urban CAS MPSE Photos provided by Katrina Marcinowski