Press & interviews

In the press

Interviews, features and profiles on Tara Blume and Ryan Maguire — the Emmy and MPSE-winning Foley team behind The Foley Job in Burbank, CA.

Tosh Show

Podcast interview

My Favorite Foley Artist — Tara Blume

March 2024

Daniel Tosh sits down with Tara to talk all things sound in TV and movies — the craft, the props, and life as a professional noise maker.

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KCRW SoundsLA

Radio feature + audio

Foley Artist / Sound Freak — Tara Blume

July 2016 · Produced by Eric Drachman

KCRW's SoundsLA spends a minute with Tara — why a movie without Foley would sound terrible, and how her background in singing, dance and sound recording makes the perfect foundation for making and performing sounds for a living.

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Business Insider

Video feature

Foley Artist Recreates Sounds From a Movie Scene From Her Home

May 2020

Business Insider challenged Tara to recreate sounds for a classic scene from Evil Dead II using only things around the house — then shared the newly Foleyed scene.

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CAS Quarterly — Cinema Audio Society

Magazine feature

Meet the Winners: Jane

Spring 2018 · CAS Quarterly magazine

The Cinema Audio Society's magazine spotlights Jane's 54th CAS Award win for Motion Picture – Documentary — Brett Morgen's Jane Goodall film where every sound was recreated from silent footage. Ryan Maguire mixed the Foley at Anarchy Post with Joanie Rowe on feet and Tara Blume on props, powering through termite close-ups and an all-out chimp war in just 2-3 days.

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The Foley Grail — Vanessa Theme Ament

Book feature

Ryan Maguire featured in the definitive book on Foley

Focal Press / Routledge

The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation — Vanessa Theme Ament's essential text on the craft — features Ryan at the console mixing the Foley on A Political Cartoon, in the chapter on the Foley mixer's workflow and professional process.

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Sound Design for the Visual Storyteller

Book feature

Featured in Christopher D. Anderson's guide to sound for visual media

1st Edition · 2025 · Focal Press / Routledge

The Foley Job is featured in Sound Design for the Visual Storyteller — Christopher D. Anderson's Focal Press guide that walks beginner filmmakers through the full sound design process for visual media.

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Spotlight (ZEIT Sprachen)

Magazine feature + audio interview

A Day in My Life — Foley artist: creating sounds

August 2024 · Spotlight magazine + Spotlight online

Spotlight, the ZEIT Sprachen magazine for the English-speaking world, spends a day with Tara — how she found Foley at Berklee, her cloth/feet/props workflow in Pro Tools, and the handcuffs, spurs and Bible in her rolling kit. Read the magazine feature and listen to the full audio interview on spotlight-online.de.

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