MONKEYPUZZLE

Monkey Puzzle Sound Studio Inc.







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CLIENTS

  • Zoom (Feature Film dir. Pedro Morelli / prod. Rhombus Media
  • Music To Draw To (Record) by Kid Koala with Emilíana Torrini
  • Nufonia Must Fall Live (Soundtrack) by Kid Koala
  • Minotaur (Animated Short) by filmmaker Munro Ferguson / prod. NFB
  • Norman McLaren (Animated Short Restoration) prod. NFB
  • Hot House 9 (Animated Shorts) prod. NFB
  • Trixie Whitley: (Remixes) by Kid Koala
  • New History Warfare vol. 3: To See More Light (Record) by Colin Stetson
  • The North (Record) by Stars
  • 12 Bit Blues (Record) by Kid Koala
  • Requiem For Romance (Animated Short) by Jonathan Ng
  • Space Cadet Still Picture Soundtrack (Record) by Kid Koala
  • Adult Swim (30 second Station Idents) by Kid Koala
  • ABComplex (Animated Short) by Jonathan Ng
  • New History Warfare vol. 2: Judges (Record) by Colin Stetson
  • Monumental Moments (EP) by Snailhouse
  • Olympic Mascots (Animated Short) for Vancouver 2010 by VanOC
  • Ashtray (Remix) by Beast
  • F@%K (Record) by Les Swashbuckling Napoleons
  • Between The Needles And Nightfall (Record) by Marco Benevento
  • iTunes Exclusive - Live From Montréal (Record) by Bell Orchestre
  • Cultural Olympiad (Animated Short) for VanOC, Vancouver 2010
  • 100% (Record)
by The Slew
  • Sevens Project (Record)
by Sevens Project
  • Your Mom’s Favorite DJ (Record) by Kid Koala

INFO

Monkey Puzzle Sound Studio Inc. is an audio service provider with a production suite located in Vaudreuil-Dorion, in Metropolitan Montreal.

Founded by Vid Cousins and Ryhna Thompson, Monkey Puzzle offers recording, mixing, mastering services in-house, as well as location recording services at recommended sites or locations of your choice.

A wide range of experience, musical ability, technical know-how and personalized approach stemming from Chief Engineer Vid Cousins, combined with Monkey Puzzle's high-end professional gear selection, offers clients a comprehensive studio experience.


Services

  • Recording (in-studio and on-location)
  • Mixing
  • Mastering
  • Producing
  • Sound design
  • Scoring to picture
  • Live sound engineering
  • Composition
  • Session Musician
  • Consulting for studio spaces and live environments

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    • Vid has helped me produce many projects ranging from albums to film scores to audio public art installations to live shows. He is an intuitive and meticulous engineer and knows how to get the tone and feeling you're looking for in the music. Plus he's ALWAYS fun to be around. His studio, Monkey Puzzle, is overflowing with an arsenal of amazing mixing tools, musical instruments, and sound design gear.

      Kid Koala
    • Vid is a highly skilled, highly thoughtful music composer and sound engineer. Over the years, I have collaborated with him and his studio Monkey Puzzle on many film projects, relying on his talents as music composer, recording artist, mixer, and sound designer. A hard-working perfectionist, he is capable of taking any concept and turning it into an audio masterpiece. He's also fun to work and is a positive asset to any creative team!

      Jonathan Ng
    • Vid Cousins is the real deal: a skillful and exacting technician who prioritizes creativity. Flexible and opinionated in the perfect balance, Vid can take charge when it’s called for, or be an effortless and precise behind-the-scenes collaborator

      Michael Feuerstack

    Vid Cousins
    Co-Founder, Chief Engineer

    With a Masters in Audio Production from Westminster University (UK) and extensive international experience in Sound Engineering (live and in-studio), Production, Composition and Performance over the last 20 years, Vid brings a balanced perspective towards finding and achieving one's sound. His broad electro-acoustic understanding, and situation-specific, problem-solving capabilities have been sought out by many of the music industry's most cutting edge producers and performing artists.

    Vid’s studio production career began in the UK in 1995 as an assistant engineer at The Dairy recording studios in Brixton, London. The varied projects at this establishment ranged from Real World artist recordings through to the mix production for Deep Purple for their Live in Europe 1996 album. His work later held him in such positions as studio technician at the University of Westminster's 9-studio recording facility and Head Technician at SubZer0 studios in South London. During this time he worked alongside many artists, engineers and producers including Al Fisch (Bjork, The Art of Noise), Charlie Francis (REM, Hi Llamas), Brian Rose (Robbie Williams, Longview), and Lewis Taylor.

    Vid sharpened his live-music production teeth on the London venue circuit as a freelance audio technician and has grown to handle full production management and venue technical direction. His rich live-music experience led to a role heading the production of Ninja Tune's ZENtertainment tour and Squarepusher's Ultravisitor tour throughout North America in 2004. In 2005, Vid was approached by Amon Tobin to help develop the Chaos Theory surround sound system with which they toured Europe and North America on numerous occasions. In the years since, he has toured countless times supporting performing artists in achieving the potential of their live sounds.

    Vid's session musician career saw him tour the UK alongside such artists as Fun Lovin' Criminals, Spooks and Nelly Furtado. It was this side of his musical career that led him to relocate to Montreal during the Don't Sweat The Small Stuff North American tour with Hip-Hop artist, Spek (Dream Warriors, Us3). His experience as a musician, in addition to his production work in both the studio and live arena, has given him a balanced understanding of the varying challenges an artist may face in the creation of his or her sound.

    Be it as consultant, engineer or producer, Vid continues to be sought out with regard to acoustics, audio production, composition and performance strategies.


    Contact Info


    vid@monkeypuzzle.ca
    514-274-2099