Sam Amidon (@samamidon.bsky.social)

The History of Sound is out now in the UK and streamable on Mubi and elsewhere in the US. Here's a piece I just wrote for the Guardian about my experience working on the film:

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‘Magical’: how I taught Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor to sing like folk troubadours in The History of Sound Singer-songwriter Sam Amidon had just three weeks to make the two stars sound like seasoned balladeers. He recalls their charged harmonies in the little shed at the bottom of his garden https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/26/sam-amidon-paul-mescal-josh-oconnor-troubadours-history-of-sound