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What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?

film, television, Choir, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble

What is your favorite genre or style of music?

Ambience Scores, Morricone, Zappa, Bruno Nicolai, Riz Ortolani and Giallos

Is music your main income source?

Yes!

Where do you live?

colorado springs

About Me:

I'm 33 years old and if I don't have one of my three kids hanging off me all day I'm strapped to a few computer's and kept there under lock and key until I write something!
I've been writing full-time for production companies since 2004 and I've been playing bass since 1987. My primary instrument is Bass and my secondary instruments are woodwinds, synthesizers, and violin. I'm a GI-20 fanatic strapped onto a few Thunderbirds and a Buzzard bass and I use it as my primary composing tool through a battery of programs and samples. My primary composing focus has been writing atmospheric underscores and elements, but I've also been kept busy writing for game shows and reality shows and advertising promos for trailers. Which has been a fun challenge writing like a method actor getting down right mean while someone is getting stalked on a film to switching gears writing to someone in a jet ski race to switching gears again to go play baseball with your kids! Been fun indeed!
I posted a few tracks that are a complete 180 from anything I've commercially produced (I prefer to merrily remain a ghost in that writing aspect!). I wanted to air out a little and put up some fun improv stuff that's just me having fun and way different then anything else I've worked on. Gloved Killers is centered around a old Moog Source that had a wonderful sticking LFO wheel That you literally had to bitch slap it while performing to make it work correctly! I slapped it as soon as the Violin comes in! Fog Walk is a Fender Rhodes rainy morning.... I would love to talk and network with all creative types! And can someone point me to the avant garde section???!

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At 4:21am on March 8, 2009, soundwrx said…: Really enjoyed your impro style ..I hear Brand X in there and many a throw back to retro prog which is cool for an aging hippie like me :p
Your jamming style is not too dissimilar from another forum member I enjoy listening to: JB Markham from Oz.

Thanks for the share.

At 2:53am on September 22, 2008, steve urwin said…: cool stuff!

At 5:09pm on August 22, 2008, November said…: Hi Pat...I thought you were BILLY SHEEHAN of Mr.Big at first sight...
lol
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=D9mzK2bd7FI
I arranged an orchestral version for Abbas "I have a dream"...
please have a look when you can.
Thanks.
P.s I too have 2 kids hangin on my shoulder, and a wife screamin down my ears... and their laughter and squeals and screams form the motivation for my compositions...when I am in my studio..
Regards,
Roque Lazarus

At 6:19am on February 25, 2008, Didier EUZET said…: Hi Pat ...
Very nice work from your side...
I am new to the forum... and I discover step by step the members...
Please listen my last track composition... RESURGENCE

Resurgence
Envoyé par didier-e dans Musique sur wat.tv

Others musics are waiting to my page where you are very welcome...
Warmest regards for now...
Didier EUZET

At 12:32am on July 13, 2007, Karen E. Peace said…: so, i think i would like to host a "springs composers" dinner sometime for you guys and a friend/significant other person. i love to have company. what say you pat and john? (I throw a mean dinner party when i set my mind to it, my garage is a concert hall and there's all kinds of fun musical toys (plus of course you can all bring your own, too....) email me you guys if that sounds interesting

At 3:43pm on June 28, 2007, pat j said…: Hi I used to have a Fender but wound up selling the violin a bit back. These days I run a no-name electric through the freebie Ambience VST!

At 2:29am on June 28, 2007, David Gielan said…: Thanks so much!

At 9:07am on June 27, 2007, John Doryk said…: This is pretty wild. I didn't realize so many talented people lived here in the Springs. Then again, maybe I shouldn't be suprised. Hey Pat, I play electric violin also. What kind of fiddle do you have? I play a Fender EV-1 theough a bunch of Digitech processors.

At 5:57am on June 27, 2007, pat j said…: Gotta love the Springs, although I'm in and out of there until next March!

At 9:13pm on June 26, 2007, Karen E. Peace said…: Hi Pat, just noticed you live in the springs too. Nice to see some folks in my home town!
Cheers,
K