“Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished.”
- Richard Due
Doing audio and video editing work is something I love almost as much as making music.
I’m mostly self-taught and have mostly cut my teeth on my own projects, wanting to experience having control over the final product in the post-production phase. I’ve found that there’s something deeply satisfying about the work of tweaking the raw material towards a beautiful final result that will move people’s emotions.
Please get in touch if you have an editing project you’d like to discuss.
The editing software tools we have at our service these days are truly astounding.
In the realm of audio editing, I’ve been working in the incredibly powerful and complex Merging Pyramix software for many years. I’ve also done work in Pro Tools and Reaper, and am getting familiar with the Cohler Classical add-on to Reaper.
For video editing, I work in Adobe Premiere Pro.
I work on a custom Windows 10 machine built for me by Canada Computers.
Please enjoy a few videos here that I’ve worked on in various capacities.
I video I edited for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir: Johann Sebastian Bach's Chorale "Jesus bleibet meine Freude," from Cantata 147 (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring). Credit for the storyboard design goes to conductor Ivars Taurins.
A remote collaboration with Candace Magner & Annett Richter from the BPI lute class. Geneviève Gilardeau plays the violin divisions. This one was a “quickie” - no fancy video editing!
I video I edited to show what the the Toronto Chamber Choir has been up to during the COVID lockdown.
No fancy video editing here either! A simple remote collboration with soprano Anna Julia David where I play both theorbo & Baroque guitar (overdubbed)! I mastered and synced the audio to Anna Julia’s wonderful video.
A video performance I contributed to a tribute to the “front line workers” at the Yee Hong Foundation retirement home. This exquisite piece is called Jasmine Flower. it’s a Chinese folksong arranged by Zhao Yue and then adapted by us. The audio is the final track of the Lute Legends CD I made with the pipa virtuosa Wendy Wen Zhao.
Soprano Hannah De Priest’s video for the 2020 BOVICELLI COMPETITION. I’m not the video editor here, but the audio editor and accompanist. This was a first attempt at recording recitative style music remotely without an unchanging click track.
A video from the early part of the COVID lockdown. Geneviève Gilardeau explores AEAE scordatura on the violin playing Simon Riopel’s Valse des poêles (Waltz of the Stoves) mixed with an excerpt from Francesco Maria Veracini’s Opus 2 No. 9 (Aria Scozzese).
Some family music making! Bergamasca / Miss Robertson's Reel (Robert Mackintosh): With Geneviève Gilardeau, violin & Daphnée Harris, piano.
Another family video we made to help spread the word about a Baroque violin for sale by Quentin Playfair. It was recorded during our dog Ciaccona’s walk time!
This is my new audio/video production logo which I made using the Early Music Sources “Serenissima” font.
In addition to many smaller projects, here are a few of the CD projects I’ve edited:
A Voice of Her Own — Toronto Chamber Choir
Christmas in Southern Italy (Live in Toronto) — Vesuvius Ensemble
In the Shadow of the Volcano (demo) — Vesuvius Ensemble
Lute Legends — Wen Zhao & Lucas Harris (see below for the video Wen and I recently made of the final track of this CD)
The Bach/Weiss Sonata — Geneviève Gilardeau & Lucas Harris
Swell, Burst & Dye — Gabrielle McLaughlin & Lucas Harris
Baroque Lute Recital — Lucas Harris
German Lute Recital — Lucas Harris