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Music & Branding for Media
Original score, arrangement, and sonic identity for film, series, and brands. Composed to move, recorded with New York’s finest players.
Wooden Bird Productions is the New York studio of Grammy-nominated composer Oded Lev-Ari and JUNO-nominated producer Amy Cervini.
We write, produce, record, and mix — music, podcasts, film, and records — for the world’s great stages, networks, and brands.
Sightings — Clients & Placements
- Lumahai Productions
- …and one very large pharmaceutical company. (They’d rather we not say.)
Work — Selected
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The Arthur Podcast
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In Focus
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Legacy — A Centennial Celebration of John F. Kennedy
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Mina & Lucy’s Guide to Slaying Dracula
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Left Arm Treasure Society
- 06 Sound Health: Renew/Remix
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Who, When, Wow: Mystery Edition
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Leo
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A Marvelous Party — Duchess
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Sound Health Network Launch
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Canadian Songbook
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Amy Cervini — Commercial Reel
Services — What We Do
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Podcast Production
Development through delivery: writing, casting, original music, sound design, and mix — for networks, institutions, and independents.
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Video Production
Series and specials, from concert film to broadcast, produced end to end.
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Audio Post & Sound Design
Dialogue editing, sound design, and final mix — meticulously crafted, down to the last breath.
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Album Production
Records built the old way: a room, the right players, and someone who knows when it’s done.
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Licensing
Uniquely Fresh, our curated sync catalog of quirky covers, originals, and jazz. Placements include Hallmark, Fox, and Showtime.
Studio — New York City
Oded Lev-Ari
Composer · Arranger · Producer
Grammy-nominated composer and arranger. Musical director of the Anat Cohen Tentet; his concerto Triple Helix was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Chicago’s Symphony Center. More than a thousand arrangements, from jazz combo to symphony orchestra.
“Putting lightning in a bottle is what Oded Lev-Ari specializes in.”
DownBeat
Amy Cervini
Vocalist · Voice Artist · Producer
JUNO-nominated producer and one of New York’s most recorded jazz voices: five albums as a leader, two Vocal Group of the Year awards with the trio Duchess, Senior Producer at Gen-Z Media.
“…a thoughtful and broad-minded jazz singer…”
The New York Times
Behind them: a cadre of New York’s finest musicians, and the city’s best rooms.
The Name — Wooden Bird
We found the wooden bird that gave our company its name and its logo in a small thrift store in Warwick, New York. It is very much as you see it here — a small bird’s body carved from a single piece of wood, a little pedestal for feet, the carving marks still visible on the body. The work is subtractive: you carve, and keep carving, until the figure that was always in the wood comes free. Michelangelo said it of marble, carvers know it of wood, and artists practice it every day: the material decides as much as the hands do.
It is the work that moves us. Not reviews or awards, not fame or glory, not even the admiration of colleagues — all good things, and welcome ones, but what gets us out of bed in the morning is the daily carving, chiseling, shaping of the piece until it becomes what it wants to be. And when it sings — not in the wood, but in us — we know: you will hear it too.