CD-Quality themes, background, and transition music - Custom scored for your production.  Sync to SMPTE for post-edit scoring, or loopable / preset length for insertion during post-production / audio sweetening.

On-Line / Off-line Linear Interformat (1”, Beta SP, etc.)  Non-linear digital editing, Media 100, Broadcast Resolution Output.

DP / Shooter for location and studio productions.  All formats, including Betacam SP. Sony BVP-7 and 400-A w/ clear scan.  Experienced in airborne photography.

World of Film (PBS Series examining the expression of culture through film) - Original music score. Served as primary DP / Editor. Episodes completed: Sweden, India, Africa, UK, Mexico. Upcoming: Russia, South America.

United Learning(Educational film distributor) - Shooting, editing and music production for an educational series on Biology / Science. On-going series produced by Paul Fuqua.

U.S. Department of Education,IPOS Training Academy
First-call for video services, including production of training films and technical support.

World Wildlife Fund- Custom Score.

Lightspeed Productions - First-call DP / Editor

Veda, Inc. Video Services- First-call DP / Editor

Funk Broadcast Video Services - Director / TD / DP

Bono Film and Video- First-call Editor

Of Note:

• Bam Balam Records,Palma de Mallorca, Spain:Recent release of Double-CD retrospective compilation of my former band, The Neighbors. (10/96)

 
• Served as U.S. State DepartmentCultural Affairs Specialist for the U.S. Embassy in Ouagadoogoo, Burkina Faso, West Africa. Conducted workshops on broadcast video for staff at TNB, national television for Burkina Faso. (3/93)

 
• DOD Clearance for work in a secure facility, 1987 - 1990. 

Associations:

Writer and Publisher Memberships with ASCAP

I've been involved with music from an early age. I got my first piano at age 3 - which was barely light enough for me to carry away from the curious and infringing hands of my infant brother. At age 4, I was so intrigued watching my older bother take guitar lessons that Mom allowed me to join in, using the Ukulele she got in Hawaii. I had my first stage performance a year later, singing a duet from "Sound of Music" with a sophisticated 7 year old woman.(Actually - my sister Helen remembers it as "Mary Poppins".)

• Completed the "Mammals" program, produced by Paul Fuqua under contract to Time-Life Education and United Learning.   The main theme for the music score was "Chiff's Busy".  (Click to hear the General MIDI version).  Along with the theme and incidental music scoring, I performed the on-line edit using the Media 100 suite at Vision Digital.  Paul's footage was outstanding, and everyone at Time-Life and United Learning was thrilled with the show!  My wife, Monica was especially pleased that our brand-new daughter, Hannah, had a starring role, playing the "infant human".

• Brain Jerome, another independent producer under contract from United Learning, recently completed two titles for the current UL catalog.  I provided music for both, and edited the programs at the Media 100 facilities of Lightspeed Productions.  We received rave reviews on these two shows examining the food webs of a unique Vermont river ecosystem.

• Composed the theme music for "Newsline", a VEDA production under contract to the Department of Defense.  This "Special Report" - style program will be used to train local authorities on  proper response techniques for domestic terrorist incidents.  I also shot much of the field and studio footage (see below).

• I edited the "Watergate and Whitewater" episode of PBS's "Follow The Money" - Produced by Walter Gottleib of Final Cut Productions for New River Media. 

• Paul Fuqua and I were in Sarasota, FL  to film scenes for the "Mammals" program. This program examines the various mammal species.  While there, we filmed the release of a recently healed dolphin from the Mote Aquarium, followed 9 manatees around a protected bay, and flushed an ornery armadillo out of the underbrush so we could take his picture.  Chasing otters along a riverbank, a perturbed wasp made his presence known in the form of a sting to my ear, which grew to the size of a small cantalope.  Paul had to shout at me for the next several hours, as my hearing was severly hampered.  I only wish the snake-charming waitress had made her pythons available.

• FDIC - Theme music used in their interactive CD-Rom, produced by Doug Mayo-Wells at PerformTech. 

• Field camera for VEDA, Inc.'s Video Services Department - headed by my former boss, Welby Smith. This was a staging of a terrorist attack in a shopping mall. We had a full turnout by the Haz Mat Units, Fire and Police Departments.  The video will be used in a nationwide training program for emergency response teams. I had a cameo roll as the dead cameraman, shot some hand-held outdoors, and composed the theme music for this "Special Report".  The Baltimore Sun ran an article, photos and all, but the link has been removed because it's no longer in their archives.