Name Bo Harwood | Role Sound Editor | |
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Awards Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Song, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Film Sound Mixing Nominations Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound Music director A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese, Love Streams, Opening Night, Happy Birthday to Me Similar John Cassavetes, J Lee Thompson, John Walker, Roger Spottiswoode, Paul Reubens | ||
John cassavetes bo harwood no one around to hear it 1974
Bo Harwood is an award-winning American sound mixer, sound editor, sound engineer, music supervisor, composer, and songwriter. Harwood's sound work gained attention in the 1970s after his work on films directed by John Cassavetes. In the 1990s and 2000s, Harwood worked primarily as a mixer for several television series, including Felicity, and Six Feet Under.
Contents
- John cassavetes bo harwood no one around to hear it 1974
- Killing of a chinese bookie bo harwood
- Film work
- The Cassavetes films
- More recent work
- Awards
- References
Killing of a chinese bookie bo harwood
Film work
In 1966, Bo Harwood was the lead singer and guitarist in a rock band. His first feature film score was for 1969's The Beach Train.
The Cassavetes films
Harwood began working with Cassavetes doing "a little editing" on Husbands (1970), and "a little sound editing" on Minnie and Moskowitz (1971). During the making of 1974's A Woman Under the Influence, Cassavetes fired the sound engineer, and offered the position to Harwood, who at the time had no experience with sound recording. Harwood accepted, though he is only credited as the composer for the film.
Harwood composed music for three more Cassavetes films, and was credited as "Sound" for two of them. During these projects, Harwood wrote several songs, some which he co-wrote with Cassavetes, only a few of which were eventually used in the films, such as "Morning Fields of Frost and Magic," which can be heard in the audition scene of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.
During his work with Cassavetes, Harwood claimed that the notoriously unpredictable director preferred to use the "scratch track" version of his compositions, rather than to let Harwood refine and re-record them with an orchestra. Some of these scratch tracks were recorded in Cassavetes office, with piano or guitar, as demos, and then eventually ended up in the final film. Though Harwood was sometimes surprised and embarrassed by this, the technique matched the raw, unpolished feel that marks most aspects of Cassavetes' films.
On the Optimum Classic DVD version of Opening Night, Bo Harwood, cameraman Mike Ferris and film-critic Tom Charity do a commentary to the movie, discussing much of this history with Cassavetes.
The relationship seems to have ended amicably. When asked by documentarian Michael Ventura, during the making of Cassavetes' last film Love Streams, what he had learned from working with Cassavetes, Harwood wistfully replied:
I learned a lot through John. I've done a lot of editing for him. Picture editing, sound editing, music editing, shot sound, composed score, and I've learned a lot about integrity...I think you know what I mean. You know, thirty years from now, I can say I rode with Billy the Kid."
More recent work
Starting in 1986, with Pee-wee's Playhouse, Bo Harwood has done work mixing sound for several television series, including My So-Called Life, Malcolm in the Middle, and a couple of episodes of Entourage.
Harwood, along with two other musicians, was involved in a music group named "TRIO".