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6 I M PS E . O R G At the time of this writing, we were still transitioning through the fi rst week of 2021. Clearly, one of the most globally catastrophic years in terms of chaos and loss in my lifetime, 2020 will leave behind many scars. But there is a fl ip side to this. Being a half-glass full/every cloud has a silver lining type of person, I cannot refl ect solely on loss without recognizing and counting the blessings and positive things which happened, too. For me, we are the silver lining in the dark cloud. We all possess the human instinct to survive. Some pretty amazing things developed in 2020 due to the pandemic that most likely would otherwise not have come about, if it weren't for this instinct to survive. To steal a line from Robert A . Heinlein's book Starship Troopers, "The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derive from it." As sound professionals, we do many things. We are creators of our craft. We are inventors of tools that we use in our craft. And our craft survives because of us and we survive because of it. Even in the darkest of hours, we keep going to survive, and we survive to keep going, so we brainstorm and invent ways to create doing this, and often it happens in the middle of crisis. This brings me to Alastair Sirkett, award-winning sound editor, husband and father of two based in London, who shares with us his experience living, working, parenting & homeschooling in isolation during the pandemic in the UK, and how together with his 11-year-old daughter Isadora, came up with a brilliant idea, which happens to be the topic of this edition's cover story—Ambient Isolation on page 64. Wavelength contributor Miguel Araujo directs our attention to México for his fascinating interview with supervising sound editor Sergio Diaz on creating the immersive soundscape for Nomadland on page 74. Stuart Morton takes us to Australia for a chat with Australian Screen Sound Guild President Stephen Murphy, about the ASSG, and the impact of COVID-19 on the country, guild, and the 2020 awards on page 86. Perry La Marca returns with another great Q&A in his series of interviews with music editors & composers, this time featuring award-winning music editor Shie Rozow on page 36. Supervising sound editors Ren Klyce and Jeremy Molod take us on their journey back to 1930s Hollywood in their article Advancing to Go Backward: The Patina of Mank on page 56. Jumping forward to the 1960s during the height of the civil rights movement, supervising sound editor Andy Hay recounts his team's experience creating the sound for Regina King's One Night in Miami on page 44. Vickie Sampson does more detective work in her column Dear Dialogue Detective on page 21, and Steve Lee shares updates From the Vault of The Hollywood Sound Museum on page 29, and much more. You won't want to miss a thing in this issue of Wavelength. I also want to give many thanks to our regular and guest contributors of our Fall quarterly for their time and e§ orts they dedicated to their articles for this magazine. Steve Fanagan (Radioactive), Nicolas Becker (Sound of Metal), Rob Walker (AMPS), Erik Marks (Riding the Waves of Commercials with Jay Hayes), Bill Dannevik ( What's a Sync Block?), Vickie Sampson (How to Teach Future Sound Editors), Steve Urban (Mix Presents Sound for Film & TV ), Paulette Lifton (cover story The Stranger Things of the Virtual Emmys), as well as our contributors of our regular columns. These are all terrifi c articles you will want to check out. If you haven't seen it yet, the Fall digital edition is online at mpse.org/wavelength. My hopes for everyone is a much better year throughout 2021 and I, for one, am looking forward to the day when we can all gather together in the workplace, in the theaters and events, and enjoy each other's company in person once again. I leave you with this thought... Thank the people who walked into your life and made it better. Extend the same gratitude to the ones that walked out and made it amazing. Be well, stay safe, and enjoy our Winter edition of Wavelength! LETTER FROM THE EDITOR CHRISTINA HORGAN MPSE Editor I MPSE Wavelength CREATING THE SOUND OF ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI THE PATINA OF MANK SERGIO DIAZ ON NOMADLAND ASSG AWARDS COMMUNITY WINS T H E O F F I C I A L P U B L I C AT I O N o f t h e M O T I O N P I C T U R E S O U N D E D I T O R S AMBIENT ISOLATION Sound Editor Alastair Sirkett's Global Lockdown Project W I N T E R 2 0 2 1 MPSE WAVELENGTH MAG. – 3/4 BACK COVER PAGE AD ISSUE: WINTER 2021 PDFX1A DUE: BLEED: 8.625" X 8" AD SIZE: 8.375" X 7.875" SAFETY: 7.875" X 7.375" WWW.INGLEDODDMEDIA.NET USERNAME: ADART | PASSWORD: ADART1 artwork@ingledodd.com COMP 03 PEACOCK FYC AD - SIT-IN - MPSE WAVELENGTH 3/4 PAGE TP3470483 | 01.15.21 | PEACOCK | ww MECH 04 NON-THEATRICAL DOCUMENTARY Tom Efinger and Jeff Seelye, Supervising Sound Editors PeacockFYC.com | Enter Code: FYC2020 Peacock © Peacock TV LLC. All other programs and/or marks are property of their respective owners. ON THE COVER: Ambient Isolation Sound Editor Alastair Sirkett's Global Lockdown Project