With degrees in engineering and music, David Novack is an award-winning sound designer and re-recording mixer for dozens of films. Highlights include Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine, Larry Clark’s Kids, Whit Stillman’s Last Days of Disco, and Richard LaGravenese’s Living Out Loud. In theater, David designed sound for an opera by Roger Waters (Ça Ira) and sound/projections for a production of the Papp Theater’s presentation of Death of a Salesman in Yiddish. David is currently designing sound for a science-in-art installation, Space Messengers, exhibited in Portugal and the US, and is developing another for the CERN particle accelerator campus in Switzerland. As a filmmaker, David has several widely-released documentaries honoured with many awards including the Int’l Doc Assn’s Pare Lorentz Award for social documentary film. A former lecturer at Univ. of Pennsylvania, David now teaches and researches sound and cinema at Lusófona University for Humanities and Technology in Lisbon.
