Art & Crafts: How ‘The Bear’ Sound Team Creates Quiet and Chaos

The sound design of the FX comedy series The Bear is often so noisy — heated conversations, shattered plates, clanging pots and pans — that when the Emmy Award-winning show goes quiet, it can feel like a primal scream. Never had the power of silence been more apparent on the series than in the season 3 episode “Doors,” which opens at a funeral service for the mother of pastry chef Marcus (Lionel Boyce). “It was a real gift that they gave us that nice quiet moment before devolving into even more chaos of this episode,” The Bear supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Steve “Major” Giammaria, MPSE, tells Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen during the latest episode of Art & Crafts, sponsored by FX.