Lee Martinez Cruz
Design Work
Sound Design
Fences (2025)
Barbeuce
North Carolina Black Repertory
WInston-Salem, NC
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Sound Designer: Lee Martinez Cruz
Set and Lighting Designer: Jennifer O’Kelly
Costume Designer: Gregory Horton,
Production Stage Manager: Brittany Giles-Jones
Technical Director: Arthur Reese.
"Sound design by Lee Martinez Cruz, including popular songs and folk songs, ground us in an era that may seem materially distant, but is in fact, closer to our reality in sociological terms." - Lynn Felder, Cultural Voice of North Carolina, Black Rep’s Exceptional Cast Delivers Moving, Enlightening Fences by August Wilson
Transition Sequence
Act II Scene 2 into Scene 3 ​
I chose period appropriate songs and sounds for the world of fences. It was especially important to read and research the script to analyze for specific sounds that would help support the time period of 1957.
Fairview (2024)
Transition Sequence
Act I Into Act II ​
This Transition sequence follows right after the character beverly faints from the stress of a birthday cake burning. I reporposed common house sounds and designed them into a unique transition.
I half-timed a phone alarm, reversed doorbells, added the siren of a kitchen alarm, inlcuded TV static, and added textures of cicadas
Full Qlab Presentation
UNC School of the Arts
WInston-Salem, NC
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Sound Designer: Lee Leon Martinez Cruz
Head Sound Engineer: Cal Martine
Assistant sound engineer: Ace Feher
Deck Sound Engineer: Miles VanEaton
Director: Jackie Alexander
Scenic Designers: Jenna Carroll & Isabella Kessler
Lighting Designer: Noelle Longenberger
Production Stage Manager: Ella Colbus
Costume Designer: Aman Mundle
Wig and Makeup Designer: Hope Medwin
Technical Director: Mel Davis
Properties Director: Ross Stephens
Transition Sequence
House Music into Act I ​
I organized this transition sequence to work seamlessly into a music track.
This sequence is organized by the sound of the beach in a surround system with waves crashing and utimately dissipating into a small speaker on stage that plays a song. The cue is organized into multiple sections to allow full immersion.
Sound Cue Sheet
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Paper Work Package
Sound Designer
One of my greatest tasks for the production of Fairview was concealing actors away from the audience but preserving their vocal-onstage presence. This consisted of setting up four of the actors in a vocal booth, and then projecting their voices live around the an audience
As the sound designer: I designed mutliple scene transtions on Qlab. I helped draft the sound system on AutoCad. I used EASE and Array Calculator with a D&B speaker system and Renkus Heinz speakers for ground speakers.
Class Design Work
Theme Park - QLab Programming & Logic Pro X
Barbeuce
Theme: "South" Americana Land
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Worked on programming detailed scene transitions through QLab. And /composed/spliced/edited/arranged over 271 tracks and instruments on Logic Pro X. This Involved a complex workload with the theme of American theme parks traveling between different entertainment sections.The objective was to transition the scenes seamlessly and neatly
Pro Tools Projects
Edited, spliced, arranged, and closely faded a preliminary mix of mutilpe sounds of water, the ocean, and waves crashing on the hull of a ship.
Produced an instrumental for a class project involving music theory, mixing, arranging, and composing for music in Protools
Edited, neatly spliced & trimmed audio, and sourced sounds to emulate a futuristic predatory spacehip.
Performed foley for an animation and then edited and spliced audio to recreate sound and emotion for animated characters.
Logic Pro X Projects
Clown Act - Movement​​
This design project focused on a movement-based piece.
This prompted me with a design based on the interactions of the dancer. Allowing for an expression without vocalization.
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Background Music ​
I composed original music in the theme of "BGM" music for experiences that explore different musical tones, tempos, and sound textures