Additional Instructors

As a composer David’s compositions have been heard coming from televisions, computers, and other screens since 1996. He has written for advertising, television, independent movies, video games, and just about any other medium in need of music. He has contributed to a diverse range of projects by industry leading developers like Double Fine, Sega, LucasArts, Microsoft, THQ, Activision, and ImaginEngine, among others.

David the producer is deeply embedded in the Bay Area music scene. His latest work can be heard on albums by Lila Rose, Metal Mother, Artemis, and Mortar and Pestle among others.

“Anybody who just takes their personal time to reach out and help the masses for the love of it, as David has done in his youtube Logic Audio trainings, is unique. That’s how I discovered him! He is a superb teacher. He not only knows what he is talking about, but his unassuming, friendly and musician type- cool approach, makes learning effective and like you’re just hanging with a friend!” - Jordan Rudess

Mr. Horowitz started his career in the early1990’s, and has literally hundreds of game titles under his belt for top flight companies including, Nickelodeon, MTV, SONY, SEGA, Crystal Dynamics, Rocket Science, Living Books, Broderbund, LeapFrog, Zephyr Games, Yahoo and many others.

Paul has worked on sessions for Guitar Hero: Van Halen, Aqua Teen Hunger Force with members of Chickenfoot (Michael Anthony, Chad Smith, and Joe Satriani), as well as recording projects for Keith Urban, Tony Lindsay of Santana, Dave Goelz of the Muppets, actor Peter Krause of Six Feet Under, and solo-engineered the new Tender Mercies album which includes several members of the Counting Crows.

In addition to the Pro Tools Expert certification, Paul has gained the Pro Tools Operator certification in Music and Post. When he’s not passing on his knowledge in Pro Tools and Game Audio in classes at Pyramind, Paul lends his skills and love of music to the control room at Loudville Studios in Sausalito as Senior Audio Engineer. Integrating both video and audio components for network TV as well as national advertising, work at Loudville includes recording voice-over for such popular shows as Undercover Boss; and National Geographic shows: Unlikely Animal Friends; Shark Men; Can it be Built?, and more.

Between 2001 and 2005, Chris had 80+ songs pressed and published on labels from around the world including notable names like Defected, Strictly Rhythm, Hooj Choons, and Arista. In 2004 he was honored to be nominated for a Grammy Award for a Jill Scott remix, and since he has remixed artists such as Alicia Keys, Mary J Blige, Missy Elliot, Luther Vandros and Mariah Carey.

Chris has also been a working DJ since 1992, and began traveling the world in 2002. He has played at major venues and festivals including: The Southport Weekender in the UK (twice), Field Day and Home nightclub in Sydney Australia, Ministry of Sound and Neighborhood in London, Cielo in NYC, Electric Circus in Adelaide Australia and anywhere in Melbourne Australia.  Other cities include:  AUSTRALIA (Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Byron Bay, and yes, Wollongong), BRAZIL (Sao Palo, Rio De Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Curitiba), CANADA (Vancouver and Toronto), EUROPE (Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Skopje, Barcelona, Mallorca and the Canary Islands), UK (London, Southport and Glasgow), U.S. (Seattle, Portland, L.A San Diego, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Denver, Chicago, Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Orlando, Gainesville, Baltimore and N.Y.C).

On top of all this Chris is also the sole owner of Moulton Media, and has been a mix and editing engineer for artists like Kaskade, Halo and Gregory Del Piero.  Current projects include founding a new imprint, Harlum Music, with David Harness, and to open the famed Moulton Media production facility to the general public, continuing his never-ending mission to better the music scene of San Francisco and beyond.

For more information, visit www.moultonmedia.net

In addition to his teaching, Scott continues to do professional interactive sound design work nationally and internationally. As an artist, he is significantly interested in the creation and performance of compelling sounds across a broad spectrum of contemporary, improvised, and experimental music. He has studied composition and improvisation at California Institute Of The Arts with Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Morton Subotnick, David Rosenboom, and Frederic Rzewski. He has performed at numerous international festivals and venues for experimental music on piano and electronics, and has recently designed instruments and performance interfaces using sensors and micro-controllers.

Originally from Philadelphia, Zaak’s relationship with music started with his love of punk rock. He played guitar for various punk bands as a teenager and continued his aesthetic evolution from there. He first began producing electronic music while living in Kyoto, Japan years later. Influenced heavily by the Japanese noise music scene, he focused primarily on experimental composition. After moving to New York City in 2008, Zaak began collaborating with a variety of movement artists including contortionists and Butoh dancers. Zaak then moved to the west coast to further pursue electronic music production, where upon completion of Pyramind’s Core Program Zaak wrote and produced Zenotope’s first album titled Miasma. Currently he and the rest of the Collective are developing a unique 3 dimensional light/sound/movement based structure for live performance of the Miasma album. His second album is currently underway due in early 2013.

Will’s style is intensely cerebral, blending precise, robotic breakbeats with sinuous, psy-influenced leads. Always dancefloor-oriented, he maintains a high level of energy and focus in his sets.
Alongside his production, Will specializes in Live performance and LiveAPI programming. He has released a string of popular templates for Ableton, and works closely with producers such as Ill Gates and Mr Bill, as well as companies such as Livid Instruments, KMI and Novation.

Released in late 2009, Will’s DJ Template for the Akai APC40, Maschine and OhmRGB has become staggeringly popular: with over ten thousand users worldwide. Co-authored with Mr Bill, the Glitch Factory template is the last word in live performance for producers. Featuring full sets of stems from several of Bill and Will’s tracks, this template provides a fully-featured environment for performance on the APC.

In addition to his own projects, Will wrote the script for Ill Gates’ popular APC40 template, as well as his forthcoming OhmRGB template. Will currently works full-time as a producer and programmer, working with companies such as Novation, building custom performance rigs and providing training and workshops on Ableton.

Taylor’s study of synthesis took him deep into the world of Native instruments and since he has worked on numerous projects including designing many of the sounds heard on his current collaborator and Pyramind alumni Luke Estes “Sugarbeat’s” release “Cherry Bomb”. Taylor’s passion lies in fusing glitch hop with Dubstep in aggressive mash-up’s of gritty bangers and granular robot sounds. He is also working on numerous online tutorials for Reaktor players and ensembles, which has proven his ability to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, Brian Trifon.

In the Late 1990s, SOS DJ’d hundreds of shows throughout California, Nevada, Washington, New York and even Australia & New Zealand, where he played opening and break sets for the Beastie Boys “Hello Nasty” World tour. SOS has produced tracks for artists such as Nicodemus, Shinehead, Barrington Levy, Rocker-T, Jamalski, Wookie J., Karney, DJ Collage, and San Francisco’s New Dealers. In the past few years, SOS has been running Positive Sound Management which currently represents Rocker-T, Poetz4Peace, Haji Mike, Cas Lucas, Ian Collins, and Karney. SOS also plays bass in the rock band Not For Not, raps in Karney and is a member of “biL” a dancehall, surf, hip hop, band.

Other recent developments include launching Independent Distribution Collective in 2004, which grew from 9 labels to over 200 products in 3 years, and now includes digital distribution and film and DVD distribution. Recent studio works include production of over a dozen albums including: Nuffsed “Ignite the Fuse”, Rastrillos “Se Acabo El Reve”, Haji Mike “The Storyman”, Jahson Ites “Forward Outta Babylon”, and new releases from Bhi Bhiman and Lou Dog Trio.

Steffen also now brings his diverse experience and knowledge to bear as an instructor for the music business classes at Pyramind, and to consulting for Pyramind’s label, Epiphyte Records.