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Winter 2019

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C A S   Q U A R T E R L Y     W I N T E R 2 0 1 9   11 I Dear CAS Brothers and Sisters, If I haven't seen you yet, Happy New Year! Wow, 2019 … come September, I will have been mixing for 20 years … and it will have been eight years since I uprooted my career to explore new challenges in Los Angeles! It's safe to say that without the CAS, I wouldn't be here today. The first 12 years in the business had entrenched me deep in the local Washington, DC, industry of documentary television and independent producers. I live for my job, love what I do, and I am endlessly hungry to share and learn. So when a colleague, Dallas Taylor CAS, told me about this organization of mixers promoting and celebrating the art of mixing, I immediately wanted to become a member! Scouring the internet for this "Cinema Audio Society," I found the community of this group very impressive. In clicking through, I discovered a member's blog of movie reviews with a keen focus on sound. Through emails and tech discussions, the author of the blog, David Bondelevitch CAS MPSE, became my second sponsor into membership. I was pumped!!! Super pumped. After participating regularly for a few years in DC by contributing articles to the CAS Quarterly, something began to stir. I began to know more of you. Reading your stories, interviewing our passionate and talented members via Skype and phone, even vacationing in February to attend the awards in person, all lead me to make the decision to wager my career investment in DC and seek growth as a mixer. I was moving to LA! And I was terrified. Although the fact that it was 65º F in Los Angeles while it was 18º F back home in DC during the awards weeks, warmed me to the core. A Letter   from the Board FOOD FOR THOUGHT So I pulled the trigger, and after scoring a place to crash on craigslist, I treated my membership directory like the yellow pages and called everyone. Any volunteer opportunities at CAS events or other sound-related events were like options at a day spa. I wanted to see everything, meet everyone, learn, and grow. Every member I reached out to was happy to chat about their perspective. Through those exchanges, the city and the industry began to unfold and continued to show me all the wisdom, perspective, and mentorship that our organization holds in spades. A primary benefit the CAS provides is a strong understanding and appreciation of the responsibilities and challenges of my counterparts in production, ADR, Foley, and music scoring, as well as the successes over challenges my cohorts in re-recording mixing tackle. Beyond that, personally, the CAS has provided me a crew of friends and a sense of community that had previously been missing from my life. I feel at home here in Los Angeles in a very large part thanks to the CAS membership. There is no way I would have ever made the leap across the country without the influence of CAS and to show my gratitude, I got even more involved. In 2014, I began serving on the Board of Directors. Thank you very much if you voted. Not necessarily for me, but just actually voted. Democracy works if you participate, folks! Since joining the Board, I have witnessed another level of professionalism. Your volunteer board of directors as a whole works tirelessly to organize events, put on the awards, increase our outreach and presence in the industry, judge student awards, all while pointing a spotlight on many of the individual and collective accomplishments of your careers. The same year, I became co-editor of the CAS Quarterly. It has been an honor to shepherd your exploits into

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