Author: Joshua Boatman

This is probably hopefully maybe the first in a series of posts that spiral through my head on a bi-weekly basis of things I’ve learned/gleaned/stolen from mentors and peers on particular topics, niche topics where information and opinions are less readily available than “how to make scrambled eggs”. Nothing in this post has any value […]

This weekend I mixed Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s presentation of “Star Wars: A New Hope Live in Concert”. Though I have some experience working in Symphonic recording, this event was a lot of new territory for me. Reinforcing a full live Orchestra in an a proscenium style theatre with playback is one thing, but Star Wars? […]

This past weekend I had the pleasure of playing console monkey for a production by the Tulsa Ballet. The program featured two pieces, Ma Kong’s “Flight of Fancy” followed by the world premier of “Breakin’ Bricks: Finding Spirit Through Ashes”. The pieces were vastly different, both in content and in technical production. For the audio […]

One of the few benefits of the extended time we’ve all spent at home in the past couple of years due to the COVID-19 pandemic is that we have more time to explore answers to questions we may have just discarded previously. While mowing my lawn a few months back I started thinking about an […]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve gotten the chance to fly with a local CFI and earn my tailwheel endorsement. We spent around three hours in the air over the course of a week or so in his J3 Cub learning the basics of tailwheel flying, focusing primarily on the tricky bits, take offs and […]

Below are some photos of some flights from the past couple of months. I pretty much exclusively take pictures of things that make me say “wow”, be they pretty views, cool airplanes, or delicious barbecue.

The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra had to suspend in-person performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however the organization decided that they weren’t content to let the music stop. Over the past months we’ve done a series of various recordings of the orchestra performing both for radio and television broadcast. The orchestra is distanced, all personnel are […]

This week I wrapped up repairs on a 2006 F-150 with a 3v 5.4L Triton engine I bought to flip. Along with a good cleaning and some aesthetic upgrades, this truck got a major overhaul to the front of the motor. In the end, I replaced the timing guides and chains, phasers, VCT solenoids, and […]

This week, out of boredom and a desire to keep skills sharp, I threw out a challenge to some audio friends to do a peer-reviewed mixing competition. We used multi-tracks for “Sail Away” by Colton Benjamin, which can be downloaded here for educational use only. I do not own the rights to these tracks nor […]

Over the past couple of weeks I have had the pleasure of working again with Belmont University’s Musical Theatre department to present Little Women at the Massey Performing Arts Center in Nashville. This is my third semester working with the department, and the first show I have sound designed independently. The mistakes made and lessons […]