My Details
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United States , New York City
Current Work Details
- What I do
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I make music, first and foremost... other than that i live life, taking it one day at a time.
- Website
- Where I work
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I am just me
- Technical Skills
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composing, producing, drumming, audio engineering, editing, mastering, and i make a pretty mean chicken cutlet.
- Resources / Expertise
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composing, producing, drumming, audio engineering, editing, mastering, oh... and did i mention that i make a pretty mean chicken cutlet?
- Availability
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Paid Work or Collaboration
Training
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Konservatorium der Stadt Wien,
Contemporary Drumset Performance, Masters -
Steven Scott Smalley,
The Art of Orchestration - Master Class -
Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Wien,
Orchestral Percussion Performance, Masters
My Social Web
- MySpace
- Youtube
My Links
Shooters Q&A
- Films I wish I had made
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Frankie's Jewels (2009 feature) Son of a Hustler (2009 feature) Fighting Nirvana (2009 feature) Lawn God (2008 short) Degradation (2008 short) Ctrl, Alt, Del - A Love Story (2008 short) Preston (2008 short) ... oh, wait a minute, i DID work on those!!
- I cried watching
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Hannah Montana
- I left the cinema during
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that long, boring car chase scene in "The Matrix II"
- Directors I love
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Stanley Kubrik, Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Frank Capra, Robert Altman, John Huston, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Fritz Lang, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Francis Ford Coppola, Charlie Chaplin, Terry Gilliam, Werner Herzog, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio de Sica, Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Milos Forman, Sergio Leone, Wes Anderson, Clint Eastwood, and many many more...
- Actors I admire
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how 'bout favorite movies instead... all kind of quirky and odd indie stuff, blaxploitation, brazil, midnight cowboy, being there, alien I, lord of the rings I-III, 2001 - a space odyssey, little miss sunshine, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, life of brian, about schmidt, fritz the cat, american beauty, 23, do the right thing, mo' better blues, tampopo, man on the moon, dreams (kurosawa), down by law, little big man, last emperor, lost in translation, dr. strangelove, marathon man, rashomon, the great dictator, haunted honeymoon, ran, the harder they come, blade runner, american splendor, grave of the fireflies, spirited away, castle in the sky, howl's moving castle, the day the earth stood still (1951), dumb and dumber (yes, i admit it, i think it's hilarious), mel brooks stuff, laurel and hardy, planet of the apes (1968), death of a salesman, american splendor, superfly, close encounters, jacob's ladder, mephisto, colonel redl, grass, fritz lang's metropolis, the good the bad and the ugly, the shining, logan's run, the magnificent seven, life is beautiful, ferris bueller's day off, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, to kill a mocking bird... et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
- Writers I respect
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douglas adams, ralph ellison, ray bradbury, arthur miller, dante alighieri, j.r.r. tolkien, stanislaw lem, charles dickens, maya angelou, mark twain, george orwell, william golding, thomas berger, dostoevsky, miguel de cervantes, kafka, kafka, and then some more kafka, and a lot of guys who write what my wife calls "boring ass text books, " which i, on the other hand, consider to be extremely interesting, and highly enjoyable books on history, religion, philosophy, culture, science, race relations, politics
- My desert island discs
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James Brown, P-Funk, Meshell N'degeOcello, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu, Mozart, Beethoven, Weather Report, Primus, Talking Heads, Strauss, Stravinsky, Miles, Bird, Dizzy, Public Enemy, House Of Pain, Run DMC, Beasty Boys, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Blues Brothers, R. Strauss, Paul Simon, Chaka Khan, Thelonious Monk, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Gil Scott-Heron, Hendrix, Kodo, Steve Reich, Steve Wonder, Isaac Hayes, Morris Day, Earth Wind & Fire, Cameo, The Police, Maurice Ravel, Count Basie, Dennis Chambers, Ohio Players, Herbie Hancock, Fela Kuti, Manu Dibango, Stan Getz, Chick Corea, Paco Delucia, Curtis Mayfield, Modest Mussorgsky, and so many more...
- My death row meal
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Wiener Schnitzerl
- The best thing I own
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brains
- More about me
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do you really want to know more??
My Work & Credits
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Son of a Hustler
My role: Composer
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Frankie's Jewels
My role: Composer
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Madness Trailer
My role: Composer
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Only Time Will Tell
My role: Composer
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Man Behind The Window - audio only
My role: Composer
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Beyond Dreams - audio only
My role: Composer
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Degradation
My role: Composer
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Fighting Nirvana
My role: Composer
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Batman - TDK Trailer
My role: Composer
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Lawn God and the Chronicles of Dent De Lion
My role: Composer
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Preston
My role: Composer
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Ctrl, Alt, Del - A Love Story
My role: Composer
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A Beautiful Mind
My role: Composer
