The work of Sasha Mandel

creative sound and motion

Murder At Harvard

Some exciting news: Murder at Harvard, my second collaboration with Untravel Media, has just been released as a free iPhone App! Based on Eric Stange’s documentary of the same name, this mobile cinematic production unravels the notorious 1849 murder of Boston’s wealthiest man by a Harvard professor by leading you through the neighborhood where it all happened.

I composed the soundtrack and mixed the audio. Check it out at the App Store, or go to parkmanmurder.com to hear more. I’ll update soon with some audio/video samples.

Easy Tie Dye

http://www.vimeo.com/1812651


A lazy day making tie-dye t-shirts with friends. Music: “Light’s Eye,” written by Sasha Mandel, performed by Diamond Diamond.
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Part One…

http://www.vimeo.com/1816436

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Little Lanes on Xconomy

Xconomy writer Wade Roush mentioned my “Little Lanes” tour in this article about the Canton Cloverleaf.

http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/02/unbuilt-boston-the-ghost-cloverleaf-of-canton/

He also discusses a never-built I-695 interchange that, in a personal twist, if not for community protests in the 1960s, would have destroyed the neighborhood and very home in which I grew up.

Boston’s Little Lanes Tour

http://www.vimeo.com/991218
This is a clip from “Boston’s Little Lanes and Secret Passageways,” a “Mobile Media Walking Tour” I produced (wrote, edited, researched, mixed and scored) under a grant from Untravel Media in October 2007. In “Little Lanes,” the listener is led through an exploration of downtown Boston’s twisted, narrow alleys. It is downloadable to smartphones and portable mp3/video players.
More clips here:
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Earth, Hands, Fire

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Way back in the beginning of 2006, I interned at Lumen Eclipse, a small company (more…)