Sacred Noise and Team Detroit have collaborated once again for eight new Ford spots starring Mike Rowe. Here’s one:

A Separation is one of the most acclaimed films of the year and winner of numerous awards including:

Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Film (Nominee) - Academy Awards
Best Foreign Language Film - Golden Globe Awards
Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress - Berlin International Film Festival
Best Foreign Language Film - New York Film Critics Circle
Best Foreign Language Film - National Board of Review

A Separation opens in theaters across the country January 20.

The official trailer features music by Michael Montes.

Today some twenty million assault rifles plague Africa, remnants of various conflicts and failed strategies. They are responsible for countless deaths every year, enable and exacerbate violence, cause misallocation of resources and prevent economic growth.

Fonderie 47 is an organization that converts AK-47 assault rifles into high-end jewelry and accessories. The items are priced from the thousands to hundreds of thousands and sold at private events. Revenue from each sale are invested into organizations to destroy a specific number of arms.

Music by Michael Montes.

Autodesk’s Imagine Design Create brings to life more than 20 compelling stories of design, from the creation of Avatar to pioneering works of architecture to the subtle art of creating video game experiences. With hundreds of stunning photos, more than 30 minutes of video and interviews, and interactive features, this full-length interactive book presents a deep, new look at the creative intersection of design and technology.

Available from iTunes as a free download for your iPad.

Opening eBook title music by Michael Montes.

Sacred Noise and Trollbäck + Co. helped AICP kick off the 2011 Conference with a digital installation featuring real-time footage of attendees as they enter The Times Center in New York. The attendee arrival footage was manipulated to appear as silhouetted figures trailing a CMYK array. The footage was then cut into manageable loops of video and arranged in a shifting grid; the more frenetic the movement on the looped footage, the more active the audio track, as tones and sounds created by Michael Montes are triggered to compose a soundtrack on the fly.

Digitas and Sacred Noise have united once again for a new series of Chantix spots.

Here is Jeff’s story.

In this pair of new spots, the Mississippi Development Authority highlights Toyota’s new plant in Blue Springs, MS.

Music by Michael Montes.

Michael has released a new EP called The Earlier Time, a follow-up to his previous album Such Siren Worlds, and a continued exploration of melodic digital distortion, echo-textures, epic builds and dramatic dynamic shifts. This is the soundtrack for your epic dreams. Excellent in the car. Also great for high-brow pot smoking experiences.

Recorded and Mixed at Sacred Noise, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine

Special thanks to Charles Bowden for giving permission to use an extract from his amazing book: Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing.

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“During four days, with 50-plus speakers and performers from all over the world, in the energizing city of Edinburgh, we will look at who we are, what we do, and how we relate to each other and to other living organisms. We will analyze the resources, technologies and skills that make life possible and keep it going — and the many things that make it interesting, enjoyable and worthwhile. We will explore themes that are basic to our humanity, and those that threaten it.”

Here is the conference open, with visuals by Trollbäck + Co. and music by Michael Montes.

Michael Montes has created music and sound design for the newly relaunched Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

Here is the open:

We were honored to participate in a very meaningful student conceived campaign called STILLforJAPAN launching Monday (July 11th) in Times Square at 1pm. STILLforJAPAN is a global initiative created to let the people of Japan know that the world has not forgotten their distress and suffering. On the four-month anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami disaster, people around the world will be asked to observe a “Moment of Stillness”. A few weeks after the campaign breaks in Times-Square the following 30 second commercial will begin to air in Japan with a message that states “The World Awaits Your Sunrise”. In addition, various TV networks from Japan will be capturing footage and conducting interviews with students involved in the project creating a short documentary of the events which will be shown throughout Japan.

Agency: VCU Brandcenter
Visuals by by Mirada/Motion Theory.
Special thanks to Matt Miller and Rick Boyko.

Music by Michael Montes.

Here is the open for the PromaxBDA 2011 Conference.

Music by Michael Montes. Visuals by Trollbäck + Co.

Sacred Noise teamed with Brand New School to create this year’s AICP Show Open.

Here is the Sponsor Reel for this year’s AICP Show.

Music by Michael Montes. Visuals by Paranoid.