LOCATION
SOUND WORK
for TELEVSION and FILM
"Hungry to Learn" Soledad O'Brien/Starfish 2019
"Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand" BBC Four 2017
"ScreenAgers - Growing Up in the Digital Age" Delaney Ruston 2016
"A Boy's Dream" Olympic Films 2015
"Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering" Eric Merola 2014
"We Are Twisted F*cking Sister” Andy Horn 2014
"Elliot Carter Documentary” Murray Lerner/MLF Productions (in production)
“De Reüie” KRO (The Netherlands) 2008, 2009
“De Rode Loper” Eén (Belgium) 2008, 2009, 2010
“Nova New York” (Dutch Television) 2008
“Rolex Mentors Program” The Proudfoot Company (U.K.) 2007 – 2010
“Baddiel And The Missing Nazi Millions” BBC 2007
“The Future – The Biomolecular Revolution, Episode 2, with Michio Kaku” BBC 2007
“Madame Blavatsky: Spiritual Traveler” and "Aleister Crowley: The Beast 666"
Reel Time Images 2007
“Person Of The Week” ABC Evening News with Charles Gibson 2006
“Epigenetics” BBC-Horizon 2005
“Ballistics,” “Spacemen” and "Moon Mysteries” National Geographic Channel
("Naked Science" series, Pioneer Productions, U.K.) 2005
“The Brooklyn Connection” PBS: P.O.V; excerpted on CBS 60Minutes;
Tribeca Film Festival official selection 2005
“Gifted Education” PBS: The News Hour 2005
“I Shouldn’t Be Alive” Discovery Channel/Channel 4 (U.K.) 2005
“History Detectives” (series) PBS 2003
“The Story of Art Deco: Off to America” Channel 5 (U.K.) 2003
“Disapora” VPRO (The Netherlands) 2002
“The Mystery of Easter Island” BBC-Horizon 2002
Winner of the Carl Von Linne Science Trophy
“Extreme Machines” (Land Speed Record, Bubba Blackwell, World’s Tallest Buildings, etc.)
The Learning Channel/Discovery 1997 – 2001
“The Search For Atlantis” A&E 2000
“Super Volcanoes” BBC-Horizon 1999
“The Spying Game” BBC 1999
“Frontline: Dreams Of Tibet” PBS 1997
“Tomorrow’s World” BBC Science 1997
“Anti-Gravity Room” (series) YTV (Canada) 1997
CONTACT
Robert M. Poss
172 East 4th Street #11D
New York, NY 10009
Tele. 212-260-7431 Cellular: 917-224-2282
E-Mail: robertposs@robertposs.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
INDEPENDENT/FREELANCE SOUND WORK New York City
October 1996 to Present
Location sound mixing/recording for video for independent documentary films and the BBC, ARD German Public Television, Al Jazeera America, RTL German Television, ZDF German Telvlsion, VPRO Dutch Television, Ivo Niehe (Netherlands), Atlantic Productions, Uden Associates (U.K.), WGBH, B Productions, City Lights Media Group, Lion Television, Fountainhead, CBC, Plani Presse (France) and various independents for corporate and ENG clients including Rolex, JP Morgan Chase, Town and Country Magazine, Liz Claiborne, Philips, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Price Waterhouse, Reader’s Digest, Court TV, YTV (Canada), the National Hockey League, Madison Square Garden, MTV, ABC (Good Morning America) and NBC/Saturday Night Live.
MOLESWORTH ENTERPRISES/INTERNATIONAL NEWS GROUP, INC., New York City
May 1996 to June 2000
Location sound mixing/recording for video for corporate and ENG clients including the BBC, Channel 4 (U.K.), Chrysalis Sports (U.K.), Classic Sports Network, The Discovery Channel, RTL (German Television), ABC (World News with Peter Jennings), Granada (U.K.), Pioneer (U.K.), Sky Television (U.K.), Touchdown (Australia) and CNN International.
TRACE ELEMENTS RECORDS, INC., New York City
June 1984 to Present
President/owner of independent music production and sound recording company. Responsibilities have included overseeing studio recording, production, manufacturing, publishing, public relations, promotion, marketing, distribution and radio airplay as well as independent engineering/producing at Trace Elements’ own fully-equipped sixteen-track digital project studio and other locations.
EQUIPMENT
Full location sound kit including Sound Devices 633 TimeCode Recorder/Mixer, Sound Devices 442 mixer, Tram TR-50 lavaliers, Sennheiser MKH-60 shotgun and MKH-30 P48 microphones (for M/S Stereo set-up), Sennheiser MKH-50 Hyper Cardioid Microphone, Sennheiser G3 wireless setups X 3, Crown and Shure boundary microphones. TransCode for time-coded cassette. Sony TC-D8 portable (non-timecode) DAT. Sony MZ-N1 Portable MiniDisc Recorder/Player. 24-track hard drive (ADAT HD24 XR) recording studio with computer-based (Logic and Pro Tools) waveform editing, full multi-track audio recording, mixing and extensive outboard signal processing as well as DAT duplication and CD-R burning capabilities.
EDUCATION
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY
Degree: Master of Science in Journalism, with Honors, 1984
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Middletown, CT
Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, with Honors in History, 1978 Phi Beta Kappa
REFERENCES
Available upon request.