Milestone Studios
Product Design in Cape Town

Milestone Studios is Cape Town's premier recording studio.
Accommodation.
building.
rights clearances for Feature films and documentaries Secure parking in the.
award-winning in-house composers Music supervision and.
design for film and television Music scoring by our.
studios by ISDN or Source-Connect Final mix, ADR and sound.
analogue equipment in Studio 5, our Vintage studio Links to other.
radio and TV commercials in Studios 2, 3 and 4 A wide range of.
Post-production for.
recording in Studio 1.
of audio services, includingLarge scale music.
We offer a full range.
available in the building for out-of-town clients.

Murray Anderson started Milestone Studios with Patrick Lee Thorp and Zayn Adam in 1987, to record demo songs for songwriters who were contracted to Mountain Records at the time. After a few years, Murray Anderson bought out his partners, and moved to the UCA Building in Bloem Street in central Cape Town. Engineers who worked full-time for Milestone in this period include Pat Foster, who later became heavily involved in the supervision of the building of the new studios mentioned below, Paul Zimmer, Al Etto, Lance Field and Madoda Mditshwa. Murray Stewart, who had previously worked at Sonovision Studios in Johannesburg, and B&S Studios in Cape Town, joined Milestone as a partner in 1993, and played a major part in the growth and success of the studio. He decided to retire from the sound game in 2007 and go farming. Warrick Sony joined the studios in 2001, and is still actively involved at Milestone, producing music for TV advertisements and Films. At the end of 2004, the building housing the studio premises was bought by a developer and demolished, and a new building was constructed. A section of this new building was purchased, and ex-South African architect Ivan Kadey, now based in Los Angeles, designed a state-of-the-art studio. The studios were built over a period of three years, with the structural shell being completed in mid 2006, and the acoustic shell 18 months later. A dedicated air-conditioning plant room ensured the minimum of noise transmission to the recording areas. The aluminium structure was shipped from Los Angeles, together with the custom Waterland speaker system and other electronic components, and assembled on site. The end result is a studio complex that can hold its own with anything else on the continent. Music supervision and rights clearances for Feature films and documentaries. Accommodation available in the building for out-of-town clients. Milestone Studios is Cape Town’s premier recording studio complex. Music recording in great acoustic spaces Audio post-production for film and television commercials ADR, ISDN, and Source-Connect Language translation and supervision into all 11 South African official languages. The music you composed and produced is not only beautiful, but sensitively appropriate and helps to achieve the authenticity that has been my aim in making this film. It has been a joy and a pleasure being in your company and working with you side by side. Even though we are based in Denmark and Murray has been working from Cape Town, we have found it very easy to communicate and work on the music together. All pieces have precisely expressed the feeling and atmosphere intended for the sequences. The soul of Felix and its emotional impact is evident in the superb music score by Murray Anderson. It's music you will definitely remember and a soundtrack worth investing in. Despite the constraints of time, budget and distance, the process was nonetheless a fruitful one. You were able to interpret my brief with immense subtlety and intuition, creating a nuanced score that worked very well. Working with Murray was, simply put, nothing but a pleasure. He was quick to understand the brief, always ready and able to inject his own creativity into executing it. Throughout the months we worked together, Milestone achieved every significant deadline, and were extremely flexible when, on occasion, the production was forced to revise targets and shift goalposts. Murray is a brilliant composer, who has excellent performance skills and the necessary technical acumen required to execute the job at hand with grace and panache and minimal fuss.