Full contact composition: creativity and collaboration in the musical realm

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Don’t miss this improvisational event! Members of the Mutato Muzika composition team will walk through their creative process, while simultaneously creating a new piece of music in real-time.

Delivered at Casual Connect Seattle, July 2008

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Albert Fox (email)

I am a 95% self taught music composer proud to be a part of Mutato Muzika for the last 11 years and recently nominated for a daytime Emmy award. I dropped out of college and later music school to stay home and program my FM synths (yes, I said FM)! This led me to work at a music store, which led to East West Soundwarehouse, and ultimately Mutato Muzika. I score films, tv shows, commercials, and video games.

John Enroth (email)

John Enroth graduated with a Bachelors of Music in Composition from Arizona State University and then attended the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences to learn more about the engineering side of music. To complete that program John was required to intern at a professional studio. He chose to intern at Mutato Muzika in November of 2002 and has been here ever since. He started as an assistant engineer on such movies like The Life Aquatic, Thirteen, Good Boy, and was the music mixer for the television show All Grown Up. Within the year of starting at Mutato Muzika, John was allowed the opportunity to start writing music for commercials, then television, video games and eventually movies. The almost six years at Mutato John has been doing everything from voice-over sessions, music performance and recording, composition, and final mixes for various projects. A list of his video game credits include The Sims 2, and the following expansion packs, Sims 2 Castaway, Sims 2 Bon Voyage, Boom Blox, and The Simpsons.

Silas Hite (email)

Silas Hite began studying drums at age 11 taught by the late great jazz drummer Mel Zelnick (Benny Goodman, Patti Page, etc.)

Studying percussion and composition, as well as art and business, Silas graduated with a Bachelors Degree in 2003. Immediately following graduation, Silas moved to Los Angeles where he was hired as a staff composer at Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh’s recording studio/music house. Since then he has been relentlessly scoring video games, films, television shows and commercials. Duties at Mutato include not only composition, but performance (drums, guitar, keys, accordion, singing, etc.) mixing, engineering, and producing. Video game credits include: The Simpsons, Boom Blox, Frogger Ancient Shadows, Sims 2, and multiple Sims 2 expansion packs such as Sims Castaway, Sims University, Sims Bon Voyage, etc.

HOME \| LECTURES & ARTICLES \| PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT \| Full contact composition: creativity and collaboration in the musical realm audio (40 MB) Don’t miss this improvisational event! Members of the Mutato Muzika composition team will walk through their creative process, while simultaneously creating a new piece of music in real-time. Delivered at Casual Connect Seattle, July 2008 DOWNLOAD Albert Fox (email) I am a 95% self taught music composer proud to be a part of Mutato Muzika for the last 11 years and recently nominated for a daytime Emmy award. I dropped out of college and later music school to stay home and program my FM synths (yes, I said FM)! This led me to work at a music store, which led to East West Soundwarehouse, and ultimately Mutato Muzika. I score films, tv shows, commercials, and video games. John Enroth (email) John Enroth graduated with a Bachelors of Music in Composition from Arizona State University and then attended the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences to learn more about the engineering side of music. To complete that program John was required to intern at a professional studio. He chose to intern at Mutato Muzika in November of 2002 and has been here ever since. He started as an assistant engineer on such movies like The Life Aquatic, Thirteen, Good Boy, and was the music mixer for the television show All Grown Up. Within the year of starting at Mutato Muzika, John was allowed the opportunity to start writing music for commercials, then television, video games and eventually movies. The almost six years at Mutato John has been doing everything from voice-over sessions, music performance and recording, composition, and final mixes for various projects. A list of his video game credits include The Sims 2, and the following expansion packs, Sims 2 Castaway, Sims 2 Bon Voyage, Boom Blox, and The Simpsons. Silas Hite (email) Silas Hite began studying drums at age 11 taught by the late great jazz drummer Mel Zelnick (Benny Goodman, Patti Page, etc.) Studying percussion and composition, as well as art and business, Silas graduated with a Bachelors Degree in 2003. Immediately following graduation, Silas moved to Los Angeles where he was hired as a staff composer at Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh’s recording studio/music house. Since then he has been relentlessly scoring video games, films, television shows and commercials. Duties at Mutato include not only composition, but performance (drums, guitar, keys, accordion, singing, etc.) mixing, engineering, and producing. Video game credits include: The Simpsons, Boom Blox, Frogger Ancient Shadows, Sims 2, and multiple Sims 2 expansion packs such as Sims Castaway, Sims University, Sims Bon Voyage, etc.