How TWENTY THOUSAND HERTZ opened a door to behind the scenes of DISNEY, SNL and more with Dallas Taylor

About this episode

Dallas Taylor discusses his work in sound design and storytelling, including insights from his podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz.

I'm super exited, because my guest today is Dallas Taylor, a sonic strategist and storyteller. Dallas is not only the host of Twenty Thousand Hertz - the wonderful podcast about the world's most iconic and fascinating sounds but also has been leading a sound design agency and making amazing documentaries on Youtube, showing us an inside look behind the scenes of Disney Park audio, mixing for live shows like Jeopardy, SNL and many more! If you haven't seen it yet I can heavily recommend you check it out! And as a special recommendation from Dallas, check out the wonderful episode about the beautiful story behind a single line of dialogue in Halo: https://www.20k.org/episodes/the-autumn-shes-been-hit Support this Podcast If you've enjoyed this episode please consider buying merch or supporting directly via Patreon or Ko-fi where you gain early access to episodes in lossless format and can submit questions for guests: https://field-and-foley-shop.fourthwall.com/ https://www.patreon.com/fieldandfoley https://ko-fi.com/fieldandfoley Thank you for listening!

People in this episode

Host: Ben Reichstein

Guest: Dallas Taylor

Topics covered

• sound design
• podcasting
• behind the scenes
• Disney audio
• sonic storytelling

Keywords

• sound design
• Disney
• SNL
• Twenty Thousand Hertz
• audio documentary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Twenty Thousand Hertz, Disney, SNL

Books & works: Halo

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