Composer

Stand out from the pack - add lush REAL strings, brass, woodwinds, and other instrumental texture to your album. You bring the demo or the track you're working on, tell me what you want, and I take care of the rest.

I will write parts, hire top-notch players, and conduct recording sessions for all sorts of instruments in various styles - classical, jazz, new age, R&B, soul, funk, Latin, gypsy, you name it.

Synths and samples are fine for some things, but there's no substitute for the real deal. A dude playing string parts on a keyboard sounds like a dude playing string parts on the keyboard.

If you want the real deal, you need real instruments, real players, and well-crafted parts. That's what I do. I studied harmony, counterpoint, composition, and orchestration in college and I've been writing imaginative arrangements for bands and solo artists for a decade. I have a network of skilled sessions musicians and - depending upon the session - access to very inexpensive quality studio time.

  Samples:

Loud Shoes - Tautologic (composer)
The Whistler - Tautologic (composer)
Not If But When - Tautologic (composer)
On Your Left - Tautologic (composer)
Reality TV - Michael Carlos (string arrangement)
Out of Control - Michael Carlos (string arrangement)

Rates:

My time is $40/hr by the hour, but discounts are available for larger projects. Every project is unique, so please contact me for an estimate. I'm happy to discuss per project rates or "volume discounts" for multiple arrangements.