SERVICES:

Q: What kind of music services do you provide?

Invisible Strings Music and Audio provides original music and sound design for games, television, film, and animation. This includes everything from initial concept, spotting and timing all the way through to recording, mixing, and delivering a finished master in the appropriate format.

A composer who simply says he “writes music” isn’t really giving a lot of information. With the proliferation of inexpensive computers, the market is full of musicians who are only able to write in a few styles or are mostly self-taught. Fortunately, my background and experience has given me the opportunity to write and arrange literally thousands of songs. You name the style and I’ve probably worked in it. I feel comfortable writing music for just about any genre. I’ve had 15 year’s experience in midi and digital audio, so I’m very comfortable in a midi studio. I also do spotting and timing.

When I graduated from Baylor in 1992 with a music degree, I had the skills to compose music for orchestras, choirs, small ensembles, and basically any other “legitimate” group of musicians. Over the next four years, I got two more degrees in Commercial Composition/Arranging and Audio Technology so that I could develop skills writing commericial music. Basically, I’ve had experience arranging everything from symphonic music to vocal pieces to country, rock, r&b, broadway, latin, funk, jazz, children’s, you name it. I’ve written for radio, television, film, stage, and the computer screen. I’ve had the opportunity to develop a pretty large toolbox of compositional skills over the last 13 years. Plus, I really enjoy the challenge of being asked to merge two dissimilar styles into something new (polka surfer music anyone?). That’s when it can get fun.

Q: What are your audio services?

Invisible Strings develops sound design for game platforms (PC, Macintosh, Playstation, XBox, Gamecube) multimedia, foley for film and TV, and even ADR (looping).

Let’s see, I have many, many, many hours in the recording studio, I’ve done location recording, sound effects work, foley work (sound effects to picture), and have mastered/finished product for Word Music's Word Choral Club for the past 5 years. I’m currently working as the sound director in the upcoming documentary “From the Top”. I’ll be providing location sound and location mixing.

Q: Any other services?

I’m pleased to announce that Invisible Strings also offers complete transcription services. I have experience transcribing everything from simple choral/piano pieces to full orchestral works and have done literally thousands of transcriptions over the years. You can see some of my transcription examples here.

Q: What’s your studio like?

The nice thing about modern recording equipment is that you no longer have to spend several million dollars to get decent sound. In fact, you can get a wonderful set of gear for less than $50,000. You can go even lower if you’re really watching the budget, but this budget covers virtually everything you’d need to do outside of orchestral recording. Over the past 10 years I’ve managed to collect just about every bit of midi and audio equipment I could ever need. And Austin has great larger studios that can be hired out when we need space to record an orchestra.

Anyone in this industry can tell you that the tendency toward gear-lust is always there. It’s nice when you can actually justify some of this gear from a work-standpoint. For those people who may be interested, a partial list of my equipment can be accessed here.