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“#How Sound Mixing Solidifies Encanto’s Cultural Takeover<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

     <span class=\"mx-1\">We chat with Alvin Wee about the art he supplies as the \u2018Encanto\u2019 score mixer and how tiny variations culminate in an obsessive soundtrack.<\/span>\n<\/p><div id=\"\">\n\n\n\n                <figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media<\/a> \">\n            <img width=\"800\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Alvin-Wee-Encanto-Score-Mixer.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Alvin Wee Encanto Score Mixer\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Alvin-Wee-Encanto-Score-Mixer.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Alvin-Wee-Encanto-Score-Mixer-768x413.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/>                                    <p>\n                    <span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\">Walt Disney Studios<\/span>\n\n                        <\/figure>\n\n    <!-- START BYLINE -->\n    <div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n        By\u00a0Brad Gullickson\u00a0\u00b7 Published on February 23rd, 2022 \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- END BYLINE -->\n\n    <em>Welcome to World Builders, our ongoing series<\/a> of conversations with the most productive and thoughtful behind-the-scenes craftspeople. In this entry, we chat with score mixer Alvin Wee about assembling Encanto\u2019s sound and how his invisible art influences the visible, or aural, art that\u2019s currently implanted itself in our pop-culture consciousness.<\/em>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
There\u2019s no escaping the Encanto<\/em><\/strong> soundtrack. Its score and songs seemingly lurk around every TikTok and thrum below every Reel.\u00a0If kids orbit your social circle, \u201cSurface Pressure<\/a>\u201d and \u201cWe Don\u2019t Talk About Bruno<\/a>\u201d are undoubtedly rattling around your brain this very second. And the weird thing is, you\u2019re probably not even all that mad about it.<\/p>\n
Composed by Germaine Franco<\/strong> with lyrics crafted by Lin<\/strong>\u2013Manuel Miranda<\/strong>, Encanto<\/em>\u2018s soundtrack has its hooks in our brains and its rhythm in our feet. We\u2019re not talking about other cotton candy animated musicals that scrape chalkboard after their millionth download<\/a>.\u00a0Encanto<\/em>\u2018s songs only become more pleasurable as they burn into your DNA, which is why we become so heated when the wrong song achieves Academy recognition during the Oscars. \u201cDos Oruguitas<\/a>\u201d is beautiful, but \u201cSurface Pressure\u201d is the jam! It\u2019s the bop on repeat.<\/p>\n
Managing our passion\u00a0is score mixer Alvin Wee<\/strong>. He\u2019s the musician and the technician in the studio, lending his ear to the musical elements, making sure we hear the right sounds at the right times. We often don\u2019t appreciate the monumental task required to produce the aural environment we hear in the theater or on TV. The way films are captured, they\u2019re practically done so silently. Oftentimes, the dialogue, the sound effects, and the music is created afterward and far away from set. It\u2019s magic demanding a wizard, and Wee wears that hat.<\/p>\n
Alvin Wee gets a chuckle out of the sorcerer metaphor, but he regards his job in a different matter. The studio is his kitchen. He has gathered and arranged his mise en place, and he\u2019s juggling the pots and cutlery.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a big fan of cooking,\u201d he says. \u201cI draw a lot of inspiration from that. And when I work, I have the best spices in the world, and I\u2019m going to make this beautiful dish out of something that\u2019s already there. Composers are very special people. I want to help them, kind of wrap their gift a little bit. So, when the audience consumes it, when they listen to it or watch it, they\u2019re like, \u2018I understand the message that you\u2019re trying to get across.\u2019 I do whatever\u2019s necessary to help that interaction between the audience and the artist.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wee was in awe of the ingredients he was given by Franco and Miranda. Hard to mess up that dish as long as he understood their origins. Hailing from Sarawak, the largest state in Malaysia, the mixer did not want to muck about in an unfamiliar realm blindly. Encanto<\/em> specifically celebrates the Columbian sound, and for him to cook, he had to taste.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really appreciate people\u2019s cultures,\u201d says Wee, \u201cespecially being from a different part of the world. I want to make sure that I got all the musical instruments and the way they sound right in the score. I dug into listening to a lot of music. There was a lot of YouTube; there was a lot of research into the Columbian style. I wanted to make sure that I got it correct for Germaine Franco, who is a brilliant composer. That meant a lot of reading, a lot of listening, and a lot of speaking to friends who are from Columbia, to make sure that it was accurate to what they understood of the music there.\u201d<\/p>\n
He wandered through Columbia\u2019s numerous musical styles: cumbia, champeta, bambuca, and joropo. He collected their instruments and noodled his way around the arpa llanera, the tiple, and the marimba de chonta. He embraced the process as play but maintained a nervous energy regarding its execution.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Marimba I borrowed from a friend,\u201d says Wee. \u201cI played with it, listened to it, and heard how it sounded in the room. I made sure that when I mixed it, it sounded exactly like, or as close as possible to how authentically it should sound. These instruments are very unique to Columbia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wee feels a responsibility to the Columbian sound and to how Germaine Franco mastered it for Encanto<\/em>\u2018s purposes. The two have worked together on numerous projects, collaborating on such films as Little<\/em>, Tag<\/em>, and The Sleepover<\/em>. The trust they have for each other guides them through the tinkering.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt takes a lot to bring focus to set any instrument to specific times of a score or song,\u201d he says. \u201cGiven my experience and my long-lasting relationship with Germaine, it was very rewarding to have her there and to find the film\u2019s sound and sculpt this score into what it is. I\u2019m thankful to be doing what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alvin Wee considers score mixing as composer support. He delivers whatever they require. Name it; he\u2019s got you.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first question I ask,\u201d he says, \u201cis \u2018what do you need?\u2019 It could be as easy as just moving one fader up and down, or it could be corralling the whole orchestral session. For me, it\u2019s just that back and forth, showing a really talented musician\/composer that they\u2019re taken care of, I\u2019m here, whatever you need from me, I\u2019m ready to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knowing the composer\u2019s need demands an ear and a heart. There\u2019s math, technicality, and craft involved, but to uncover the elusive flawless sound in the mix, Wee taps into the ethereal. His soul guides the result.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say that it\u2019s an art form in itself,\u201d says Wee. \u201cI want to say that the art is actually making sure that the beautiful music that Germaine wrote, in this case, and the songs Lin wrote too, sounds as good as possible. Art forms art.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year, Encanto<\/em> received three Academy Award nominations: Germaine Franco for Original Score, Lin-Manuel Miranda for Original Song (\u201cDos Oruguitas\u201d), and Best Animated Feature. When they were announced, Wee was overcome with giddiness. He recognizes the film as a special project \u2014 he sees the TikToks too \u2014 with a reach that will stretch for decades and probably longer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s so much to be proud of us,\u201d he says. \u201cThe biggest thing for me is the historic nomination for Germaine, the first Latina woman of color nominated by the Academy. I\u2019m so proud of her and for me to be in the studio with her, experiencing that music with her. I feel so much joy from that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wee himself received a Cinema Audio Society\u00a0nomination for Encanto<\/em>. The CAS awards recognize exceptional sound mixing in film and television and frequently forecast the Oscar nominations in those categories. When discussing this particular accolade, the artist\u2019s voice somehow sings brighter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if you can tell,\u201d Wee continues, \u201cbut I\u201dm originally from Malaysia. I\u2019m very proud of what I do and being a person of color. I want people to see what I do and be able to see and connect with that, and be able to say, \u2018I want to do that as well.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Hollywood needs its cooks. Follow Alvin Wee into the kitchen. Stir the spices; uncover the wondrous new flavors. Use your art to guide all art.<\/p>\n\n
Encanto<\/em> is now streaming<\/a> on Disney Plus.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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