Almost all of the native flute, percussion is me, plus some work from Joseph Firecrow, and Brian Keane played some percussion.
In two small parts, you'll hear loops from the Voices of Native America ACID library too. We used them as guide tracks, and ended up liking them so much that in a couple very small parts, they stayed.
The soundtrack album is missing SO much of the show music, but it's a great bit of work. It's always a huge pleasure to work with Brian Keane, the musical director and composer on this project. He's one of the few directors that allows the artist to do their own thing, and THEN direct, rather than demanding straight out of the gate.

Is it in HD?

Of course. ;-) Most things that are PBS specials these days are required to be.
All audio was 24/96k, which isn't High Def, but frankly for broadcast, it's more or less a waste anyway, to go 192K

When you say it Hi-def, do you mean 1080, or somethinh "sorta" Hi-def?

Please, always be specific.

PBS is a 1080i network, as is NBC and CBS. FOX and ABC are 720p.

What John said. :-)
Specifically, it's 1080i, but also has variant of a downsampled 720p. I imagine when it comes out on BD, it will be 1080i, or maybe converted to 1080 30p.

Friendly reminder bump

That presentation was really great. The music was great. The photography was beautiful....wish I had a HDTV. The story was done so well. I loved the way that the narrator would come into the scene to tell a part of the story, and also while a scene was going on, one of the characters would turn to the camera and tell a small part of the story. I was so intent on watching the how the shots were done and the editing techniques that I had to be careful not to miss the story. Thanks for posting when the show was airing.

If you missed it on KCET in LA last night as I did, it is to be shown on KVCR San Bernadino on January 24 at 9.00 pm and January 31 at 9.00 pm

Maybe Spot knows this - was any of the music done by local (to the story) talent as far as the native american pieces go? Was the Iroquoi musuem involved at all in the production (post wise I mean - consulting and such)

Yes, several members of the Iroquois nations were consulted for the film, additionally the indigenous vocals heard are all Iroquois except for the my vocal pieces, one of the flute pieces is Iroquois, two of my pieces are my personal interpretations of what Densmore recorded in 1892. I don't know how involved the museum was or wasn't, as that part of the production wasn't mine to participate in. However, it was privately viewed by representatives of several nations prior to being finished.
The Iroquois Museum's music collection is almost exclusively from Densmore and Hyatt, which means it's incredibly flawed from an interpretive viewpoint, but it's as accurate as notation of non-traditionally scaled instruments permit, not to mention her wax recordings for the American Bureau of Ethnology (which were transferred via Sound Forge 4.5 and Noise Reduction 1). That's about as accurate as it gets for that time period, even tho those recordings are more than 100 years post the time period of this documentary.

MH Stevens,
Thanks for the second chance. I live in Riverside, so KVCR out of SB is perfect for me. I take it you're local here too?
I look forward to seeing the doc!
As far as reproducing old record albums goes: I saw a documentary (or segment) that showed a group using (what I'm assuming is VERY expensive) lasers instead of traditional needles in record players. They say it's just as accurate and never messes with the existing grooves. It could be tought to ignore some particles like dust and such, but the final cleanup of the sound came down to technology similar to NR2. Seems like very cool technology.

Thanks.

mjroddy: My residence wanders between Anza at 4000' in the Santa Rosa mountains and Palm Desert down here in the valley. I like KVCR more than KCET, they have a lot of good stuff.