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Casual-T ...

Composer

United States , New York City

Visits in the last week

16

Total of visits

1591

Current Work Details

What I do

I make music, first and foremost... other than that i live life, taking it one day at a time.

Company

Flatnose Productions, LLC

Website

www.brooklyncomposer.com

Where I work

I am just me

Technical Skills

composing, producing, drumming, audio engineering, editing, mastering, and i make a pretty mean chicken cutlet.

Resources / Expertise

composing, producing, drumming, audio engineering, editing, mastering, oh... and did i mention that i make a pretty mean chicken cutlet?

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Training

1991-1995

Konservatorium der Stadt Wien,
Contemporary Drumset Performance, Masters

1986-1992

Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Wien,
Orchestral Percussion Performance, Masters

2010-2010

Scoring For Film,
Rick Baitz Film Scoring Workshop

2010-2010

Hollywood Calling,
Filim Scoring Workshop with Christopher Young

2009-2009

The Art of Orchestration,
Steven Scott Smalley Master Class

Shooters Q&A

Films I wish I had made

Criminal Needs (2010 animated short), One Certain Afternoon (2010 animated short), Only Time Will Tell (2010 animated short), 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

Hannah Montana

I left the cinema during

that long, boring car chase scene in "The Matrix II"

Directors I love

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

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

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

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

Wiener Schnitzerl

The best thing I own

brains

More about me

do you really want to know more?

My Work & Credits

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    Frankie's Jewels

    My role: Composer

    Production company
    Pacific Storm Films
    Category
    Feature
  • play

    Fighting Nirvana

    My role: Composer

    Production company
    HoneyDew546 Productions
    Category
    Feature
  • Son of a Hustler

    My role: Composer

    Production company
    inmotion Filmz
    Category
    Feature
  • play

    Desperate Crossing

    My role: Composer

    Format
    CGI
    Production company
    Mean Sock Productions
    Category
    Animation
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    Shinobi Blues

    My role: Composer

    Format
    CGI
    Category
    Animation
  • Lure of the Plume

    My role: Composer

    Format
    CGI
    Category
    Animation
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    One Cakey Afternoon

    My role: Composer

    Format
    CGI
    Category
    Animation
  • play

    Only Time Will Tell

    My role: Composer

    Format
    CGI
    Category
    Animation
  • play

    Only Time Will Tell - Trailer

    My role: Composer

    Format
    CGI
    Production company
    YBJ Films
    Category
    Animation
  • play

    Degradation

    My role: Composer

    Category
    Short
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    Lawn God and the Chronicles of Dent De Lion

    My role: Composer

    Production company
    Cinekoncept
    Category
    Short
  • Ctrl, Alt, Del - A Love Story

    My role: Composer

    Production company
    HCQ Productions
    Category
    Short
  • Preston

    My role: Composer

    Production company
    HCQ Productions
    Category
    Short
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    Man Behind The Window - audio only

    My role: Composer

    Production company
    Casual-T
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    Beyond Dreams - audio only

    My role: Composer

    Production company
    Casual-T
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    Madness Trailer (re-scored promo)

    My role: Composer

    Category
    Feature Trailer
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    Batman - TDK Trailer (re-scored promo)

    My role: Composer

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    A Beautiful Mind (re-scored promo)

    My role: Composer

    Category
    Showreel
  • Priest

    My role: Post Production

    Format
    35mm
    Production company
    Screen Gems
    Category
    Feature
  • Faces in the Crowd

    My role: Post Production

    Format
    35mm
    Production company
    Forecast Pictures, Frantic Films Live Action Productions, Minds Eye Entertainment, Radar Films
    Category
    Feature
  • Fanboy

    My role: Post Production

    Format
    HD
    Category
    Short