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Learn about our regular contributing
authors.
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Bill Black
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Bill Black is a musician, sound effects designer and voice over director/ producer. He started out playing with bands in the early 80’s including James Intveld. He jumped on the computer music bandwagon in the 1987 and never looked back As a technician he worked for Steinberg North America for 5 years. As a musician his songs have been on TV shows such as The Extremists, The Red Shoe Diaries and Street Time. As a sound effects designer he created sound for the logo that opens the Tokyo stock exchange He was the voice over producer for Neverwinter Nights. Bill owns Big Fat Kitty LLC a company that serves the video game industry.
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Ian Bruce-Douglas
Premastering & Remixing Specialist, INTERGALACTIC/ DGM PrEmastering
www.ianbruce-douglas.com
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Ian has been a professional musician since 1965, although he retired from live performances in 1993 to start his premastering business. In 1967, he formed Ultimate Spinach. Under his leadership, the band released two albums of his controversial and innovative compositions in 1968 on the MGM label. The first album sold 110,000 copies the first week it was released and peaked at #34 on the international charts. The second peaked at #41. Both albums made it onto the charts without benefit of a singles release: a feat that is still rare. After leaving Ultimate Spinach in late '68, he dropped out of sight only to reemerge with The Ian Bruce-Douglas Apocalypse, a power-trio featuring Ian on guitar and organ. The group became a favorite at many New England venues but never recorded because of outstanding contract obligations that didn't allow him to record. Next, came Copperhead, in which Ian incorporated a horn section and a very funky feel, reflecting his Southern heritage. In 1972, he moved to New Orleans and formed Lord Of Light, another horn-based Funk band featuring his original tunes. Local R&B legend, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, declared that Ian was "...the funkiest White Boy on Bourbon Street". In 1979, he performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a very enthusiastic audience of approximately 3,000+. In 1980, he moved to South Florida and started Bloodlust, which eventually morphed into Azlbrax, an experimental MIDI-based trio. In the meantime, Ian became recognized as a MIDI pioneer and was one of the first to incorporate MIDI in live performance. Again: a controversial move. In 1987, he wrote and produced Azlbrax's only album: "In The Valley Of The Shadow", which received a number of positive reviews from the national press. During all these years, he also wrote music for commercials, including an award-winning piece for Pepsi, and did voice-overs for a variety of commercials and industrial films. He also appeared in a crime recreation TV spot as the killer. In 1992, he moved away from the heavy MIDI orchestrations he had favored and returned to his acoustic guitar roots. In 1996, unbeknownst to him, his former producer remastered and reissued his Spinach albums on CD. Since then, at least four bands have released covers of "Ballad Of The Hip Death Goddess" on indie labels. In 2003, he began teaching himself to play the lap-slide resonator and 'Weissenborn' guitars.
Even though he has retired from live performance, Ian continues to get invitations to play festivals and still does interviews for music magazines. He also continues to compose and practices his instruments for 2-3 hours daily, when he isn't busy doing premastering or remixing work for his clients. In 2005, he moved to a secluded 10-acre farm in North Central Florida, "The Cat Farm", where he worries about hurricanes, tends his crops and cares for a lot of cats he has rescued from animal control and the streets. He prefers the company of his cats to most people!
He has started recording at least one new album of his original material which he plans to market from his websites and he may perform publicly again on a limited basis. He is also writing a 3-volume "how-to" series entitled "Digital Recording, Mixing & Premastering".
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Neal K. Fujio
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Neal Fujio is an eclectic musician, remix artist, and mix engineer with a love for heavy sounding music. He began playing in hardcore metal and punk bands during the early 90's and later became interested in computer music production and turntablism during the great digital music explosion. He worked as a freelance technician building computers and later moved from his home in Hawaii to earn a Digidesign Pro Tools Certification from Audiograph International in Santa Monica, CA. He eventually began teaching Pro Tools certification classes at Audiograph International and has also recieved technical proofreading credits for Jose "Chilitos" Valenzuela's book : The Complete Pro Tools Handbook. He has played as a drummer, synth player, DJ, and electronic artist for a number of live venues and radio shows. He is currently flying between San Francisco and Hawaii, working as a studio technician and has his hands in various musical projects, including an up and coming self-produced album.
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Mikail Graham
http://www.mikailgraham.com
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Mikail Graham is an independent producer and composer currently residing in northern California. He works daily with many of the tools he has helped to create or demonstrate over the past twenty plus years for numerous MI & Pro Audio companies. Besides consulting for various tech companies he mixes and produces regional records, performs live regularly in various musical situations and promoting LIVE music in general all around Nevada County California. You can check out his weekly radio show The Other Side on community radio KVMR FM Nevada City or his own website at: www.mikailgraham.com.
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Houston Haynes
http://www.titanlinemusic.com
titanlinemusic@gmail.com
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Houston is primarily known as a composer and sound designer for film, although he continues to work as a performing musician and professional sound engineer. In his early formative years he learned to play several instruments, including drums and percussion, trumpet, euphonium and tuba - and studied privately under world-renowned soloist Keig Garvin. Houston attended the Petrie School of Music at Converse College for several years, under scholarship, and later transferred to UNC-Asheville to study audio engineering under Wayne Kirby and electronic music under the aegis of Bob Moog - one of the world's true synthesizer pioneers. Today, Houston is still called upon as a consultant to musical instrument companies around the globe, as he's regarded as one of the world's experts on classic analog synthesizers. He also has several on-going composition, sound design, and film mixing projects - and collaborates with other composers in the Los
Angeles area.
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Roger Hooper
www.rogerhooper.com
rogerhooper@mac.com
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Roger Hooper is a freelance composer, performer, Logic Pro consultant, and music transcriber. He earned a Music Theory degree from the University of Maryland, also studying jazz piano and electronic music production on a Moog III modular synthesizer. Roger worked for a large music retailer for many years starting in the mid-80s, where he sold synthesizers and hard disk recording systems (when 4 tracks were considered a luxury). Throughout the 90’s he began scoring video in a part-time capacity, making the leap to full-time in 2001. Some of his scores have included trailers for EA Games Battlefield 2 series (one of which was nominated for best score at the 2006 Machinima Festival in NYC), shows for HGTV and Discovery Science, and documentaries for a wide variety of clients including The President’s National Prayer Breakfast, Sovereign Grace Ministries, and the National Gallery of Art. Roger also performs as a jazz pianist and synthesist in the Washington, DC area, and works as a transcriber, creating music notation products for a variety of clients. Although he uses many virtual instruments in his writing, Roger still prefers real knobs.
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Richard Zvonar
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Richard Zvonar was a California
composer and and intermedia artist. His works include
pieces for voice, acoustic and electronic
instruments, tape, film, installations,
music theater and intermedia performance.
Zvonar received a PhD in Composition
and Music Technology in 1982 from UC San Diego,
where he was a Research Assistant
at the Computer Audio Research Lab (CARL) and
a Fellow at the Center for Music
Experiment (CME). He has been artist-in-residence
at the MIT Media Lab, Yellow Springs
Institute, Real Art Ways, the Banff Centre for the
Arts, and Studio PASS. Performances
of intermedia works include soul murder (1983)
at Berkeley Stage Co., The Board
Room (1985) at S.F. Museum of Modern Art, Q (1986)
at New Music America in Houston,
OX (1987) in Kala Institute's Seeing Time series.
Performances of electroacoustic music,
featuring computer controlled processing
of acoustic sounds, included a project with bassist Robert Black
(Real Art Ways, PASS, Experimental Intermedia
Foundation, Composers' Forum), Hex
(1987) with the ensemble Relache in Philadelphia,
several years touring and recording with avant-diva Diamanda
Galas.
Richard passed away in 2005. He is sorely missed by us at audioMIDI.com
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