Category: Audio Production

Audio Production

LIVE-IN-STUDIO

These are all video performances for which I captured live audio and then mixed, in various locations across the US. These 67 selected productions were carried out by Rolling Stone, The Wild Honey Pie, and MOSCOT MUSIC, with bands including Rahzel, Ra Ra Riot, Waves, Phox, Wild Child, and many, many more!

 

 

 

Audio Production

AD MUSIC

Music I composed and mixed for ads, followed by clips of a few that have aired on national television.                                                                                  ‘

 

 

 

 

 

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Audio Production

S.C. – with Orchestra in Sydney, AUS (UNRELEASED)

Had the great pleasure to produce, arrange, and start to mix a full length with one of my all-time favorite artists. For the sake of secrecy I will not divulge details, but please enjoy these clips and do not share – recorded between Sydney and Berlin with members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Sydney Orchestra.

Audio Production

Travel Poems

Produced, recorded and mixed this 30-track album with Eric Pan, an incredible pianist and composer. We used 11 different pianos and Rhodes in Berlin and NYC to find the ideal sounds for each concept. The instrumentation is piano, found sounds, and jazz trio. Visit travelpoems.com for more info, and find two unreleased tracks below:

 

 

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House on the Hill

Composed and recorded this score for string quartet, acoustic guitar, and whistling, with performances by Tamsin of the band “Wilsen”. We used a theme from her beautiful song “House on a Hill” for some of the score, and the vocal is heard in the film at one point.

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Bad Marriage

Played as keyboardist and co-composed music with the band “Bad Marriage”, a band made up of members of Wild Child, Phox, Snowmine, and Sun Nectar. Mixed three tracks for The Wild Honey Pie “On the Mountain” series. ‘

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About A Worker

Composed brand theme for About a Worker, a Paris-based fashion brand working to teach factory workers to become designers, expressing their own vision of the fashion industry.

The music has three main components: factory sounds that I recorded onsite at Mode Estime  factory which were built into a custom synth patch in Kontakt, a drone constructed with slowed-down and filtered factory sounds, and a classical piano element. The theme is designed to feel like a sewing machine itself, representing the repetitive nature of the needle in the fabric and the parallel repetition of the lives of the workers, who in many parts of the world are overworked and underpaid.

–I did not record the voice over, just composed and recorded the music–

 

 

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Sun Nectar – LITT//LTYL

This is a cover / mash up of Son Lux’s “Lost it to Trying” and James Blake’s “Limit to Your Love” released August 2014. Inspired by the lyrics of both songs, combined they convey a message of finding the limit to the love shared between lovers, and failing to overcome said love because of trying too hard. Or maybe it is about cats.

The string quartet was performed by Rebekah Durham, Tomoko Akaboshi, Laura Sacks, and Courtney Kaita. Drums by Dave Scalia, bass Christian Carpenter recorded by Brian Trahan and Harper James at Degraw Sound in Park Slope, Brooklyn.                                                                                                                                                      `

 

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Mark Dover: Live at Douglass Recording

Recorded and mixed these incredible performances by clarinetist Mark Dover and friends at Douglass Recording in Brooklyn.

Credits:
Dichterliebe Op. 48 No. 1- Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai
Comp: R. Schumann
Arrang: Mark Dover

Mark Dover- Clarinet
Faylotte Crayton- Soprano
Jeremy Jordan – Rhodes
Leon Boykins – Bass
Allan Mednard – Drums                                                                                 ‘

Sippin on Schewitz by Mark Dover

Mark Dover- Clarinet
Jeremy Jordan – Piano
Leon Boykins – Bass
Allan Mednard – Drums

Recorded at Douglass Street Records
Engineering/Mixing – Brian Trahan
Mastering – Jake Rodenhouse
Video – Simon C.F. Yu

Audio Production

Sun Nectar – Sheep Love & Metal Gloves

Credits: Songwriter, producer, mixing, multi-instrumentalist

This is my current band. The instrumentation is piano, bass, drums, and string quartet, which makes performing a blast. The single, Just an Echo, is available below, along with two of the string quartet scores.                                                                                                 ’

 

These Silent Days Score R2

Shepherd, Shepherd R2

 

Audio Production

Farewell Republic – Young Effete Titans of Industry

Credits: Producer, add’l recording engineer, piano and keyboards, backing vocals, aux percussion

This record was recorded in Washington, D.C. in a basement and at Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty’s personal studio. It was then mixed in four days by the songwriter and me with grammy winning engineer Brian Thorn, and mastered by Joe Lambert (Animal Collective, The National, Deerhunter). It was released to critical praise from Stereogum, Brightest Young Things, and many others in January 2013.

Check out the Stereogum review here:
http://www.stereogum.com/1213822/farewell-republic-lines-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

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Hannah Winkler EP

Credits: Producer, recording engineer, multi-instrumentalist.

For this record, I wrote and arranged parts for Hannah’s beautiful compositions, which we recorded in the Duderstadt Audio Studio at the University of Michigan and at my home studio in Ann Arbor, MI. Below I’ve included the string quartet score for Away From You. Please enjoy!

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Away From You String Quartet – Full Score

Audio Production

Butterfly Assassins – Sylvia

Credits: Songwriter, producer, add’l recording engineer, piano, organ, trumpet, aux percussion, vox.

This was my personal project growing up – Butterfly Assassins was my Chicago-based “Chicago rock” band, which went on multiple midwestern and east coast tours, playing Chicago venues such as House of Blues, Metro, and Shubas Tavern with bands including Hanson, Girl Talk, Company of Thieves, Wax on Radio, Plain White T’s, This is me Smiling, etc. Fuuuu-uuunnn! Learned a ton, worked with amazing engineers at Gravity Studios, Shirk Music and Sound, and United Technique Studios, and mixing engineer Ed Stasium (The Ramones, Mick Jagger, Freddy Mercury).

This project involved a fair amount of arranging for strings, tenor sax, vocals, and trumpet.

For full credits and track listing, check out http://butterflyassassins.bandcamp.com/

 

Audio Production

Farewell Republic – Burn the Boats

Credits: Producer, co-songwriter, recording engineer, piano, hammond organ, synths, vocals.

This record was recorded by me and Michael Coffman, the sound designer of Mother New York, and we were going for “big but unique”. We spent 10 days in the Chrome Attic, a massive studio in Crystal Lake, IL, and we pushed the studio to its limits… we used almost every vintage amplifier, keyboard, and outboard unit they had, did all major tracking live, and overall had an extremely smooth and solid session. The remainder of the parts were recorded over the next month in my home studio.

I orchestrated a couple of the tunes for the band – “For Your Health” features a lo-fi thirteen-piece chamber ensemble. Interesting fact: due to dwindling budgets, it was recorded in a small apartment with only 3 microphones. I’ve provided a small sample, and the full score is below.
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http://farewellrepublic.bandcamp.com/

Farewell Republic – For Your Health Full Score

Audio Production

University of Michigan CRLT Theater Program – Institutional Change,…

Credits: Recording (live) and mixing engineer, arranger, producer, co-music director, pianist.

With the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, I had the pleasure of working with talented artistic director Jeffrey Steiger on constructing, arranging, and performing the music for “Institutional Change, The Musical”. The purpose of the musical was to raise questions among provost, faculty, and staff members, as well as students, about how their education system is currently functioning and how it could be improved. The process went something like this:

-Jeffrey would write lyrics and music on his guitar, and sing rough ideas to me.

-Using his songs, we would then negotiate progressions and melodies that conveyed his message and were musically effective.

-Together we would teach the music to the singers and other musicians. (That said, brilliant cellist Courtney Kaita wrote most of her own parts).

-We would take the show on the road, traveling to Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan to perform for the faculty and staff of various universities.

At every performance, I was amazed at the level of engagement of the audience and the conversations that followed. It really felt like issues were surfacing that had not been previously discussed, and hearing the chair, faculty, and staff all speaking to each other without the hierarchy getting in the way and working things out was always my favorite part.

Quite an incredible experience!!

http://www.crlt.umich.edu/theatre/index.php

Audio Production

Dicks and Janes – Acousticophilia

Credits: Producer, recording & mixing engineer.

This a-capella record presented a unique challenge – they wanted to sound like real human singers, but also receive studio assistance in sounding like pop/rock instruments and fill out the frequency space like a pop recording. Here are two selections.                                                                                                  

Audio Production

Danny Freeman – Second to Dream

Credits: Producer, recording & mixing engineer, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist.