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Sound City Studios

CHRIS PIORKOWSKI

LOS ANGELES CA

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2014 All Rights Reserved by Chris Piorkowski Photo was made during the Recording session of the CD Album "Le Piano"

Chris Piorkowski performing on a MiDI keyboard at Sound City Studios during a video interview with Luciano Saber from Aspiring Hollywood

By James Goux "Music can tell stories and I will find a language to tell yours using my music," proclaims Chris Piorkowski on the home page of his website. Piorkowski's career in composing, conducting, and producing began in 1991 at the fresh age of 19 when he worked as a musician and composer at the "in theater" in West Berlin. Since that time he has started his own recording studio and continues to work as a composer, doing writing, arranging, and recording all in-house. Piorkowski is quick to point to his experience co-producing and arranging the main theme for the World Cup of Boxing in Helsinki as an exciting opportunity in his writing career. He's also worked with Gene Roddenberry Productions, with PBS on a show with Fernando Rossi, and worked in all types of media, including: feature films,documentary, advertising, television, games, multimedia, and library music. Piorkowski has written and produced songs for many singer-songwriters and other artists as well. All of the music disciplines and genres are at his fingertips.

Chris Piorkowski C o m p o s e r

Piorkowski accredits his varied opportunities to the one-stop shop setup of his studio. His studio acts as the last stop in the post-production process, and he can provide services in film composing, orchestration, and production as well as the more technical aspects of sound such as Foley, ADR, and mixing and mastering. He works within Sound City Studios, a renowned studio that has hosted the recordings of artists like Elton John, Metallica, Michael Jackson, and the groundbreaking score to the original Planet of the Apes. This allows a single film to be worked on in four studios at once, with specific rooms each for Foley and ADR. Movement from one phase to the next is faster and easier with all aspects of the sound being worked on within the same studio, and Piorkowski has an entire team of orchestrators with which he works. While Chris considers himself within the category of upcoming composers, he feels he is more established than most who are new to the game and has built a group of clients and collaborators with whom he can trust. He's able to work with union or non-union musicians and, unlike many start up composers, is able to record live music as opposed to a mix of samples and synthesized scoring. He is able to offer new and individual sound scores as well as a full range of genres, and is always ready to create a score on short notice. Chris sends out an open initiation to his facilities and wants to make clients of any standing feel comfortable and confident in their decision to work with them, saying, Don't hesitate to call or e-mail. 

Filmography

Film, TV, Commercials, Trailers & Game Chris is continuously working on different projects with other production companies and also in collaboration with the Studios at Sound City in Van Nuys CA. The complex includes full size Foley stage, mixing & mastering facilities and a legendary recording studio large enough to handle up to a fifty piece orchestra.

Projects From documentary, reality TV show, Film Trailers, commercials, short or feature film projects Chris is welcome to support film and multimedia projects with a great group of professionals during the post production in order to make this fast and efficient experience for the Filmmakers.

Film Poster and Commercial Projects that Chris was working on out of Sound City Studios CA

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From a simple idea to a full CD Being involved as a composer, arranger and also working with a lyricist was always challenging but for the most a very rewarding experience.

Working with singer-songwriters as a composer and arranger and guiding them as well as coaching them during the vocal recording session contributed to many successful CD productions as well as their personal career development.

Today since the CD is less popular compared to the iTunes music, the main focus is to create high quality mp3 audio files and offer them to the public on internet.

The new digital audio type introduces new ways of interacting with the listeners today, offering a faster platform to promote, advertise and present bands, solo artists, as well as creating a soundtrack.

CD Productions

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Musician In many years as a musician and composer, Chris discovered and was involved in different styles and genres of music that influenced his compositions and often performed on film scores by himself taking advantaged of using different instruments. From accompanying singers, performing with Piano & String quartet, as well as conducting choirs, bands, orchestras to composing and producing CD recordings with radio airplay’s those experiences shaped his craft and musicianship.

Sound Sampling As part of today's industry creating conventional or non conventional music instruments is to create a new sound independently as a musician, shaping the sound of a band by bringing a specific tone or introducing a new texture, elements to multimedia and compositional process offering the signature sound of a composer.

3 Performer & Multi Instrumentalist

Photos during live performance

4 Music For Theater Productions

Stage Since 19years old Chris was introduced as a composer and performer to the world of Theater.

Drama That was a very valuable time of learning the drama in a play as well as the interaction between actors and musicians on stage during the theater performance.

Performance His countless theater performances as a musician and composer shaped not only the valuable understanding of the importance of the right sound for the right scene but also the immediate response of an audience that mirrored the entire theater team performance of the day.

From composing music for “The Little Foxes” or “Sherlock Holmes” Play to Edward Gorey's tragicomedy, Chris was ready to transform and dive into the genre and time period in order to capture what's needed from the past into today's world.

Audio & Video Demo Reels On the website you're welcome to listen to audio demos as well as video reels from previous or current projects

Video Studio Tour If you're interested in more in depth workflow, composing and scoring process please visit the video Studio Tour

Piano Solo Please listen to Piano Solo CD and the live Concert with Piano and String Quartet on Soundcloud or YouTube.

Composer Website5

www.chrispiorkowski.comDirect website link to Audio & Video demo reel :

6 Music Composition For Multimedia

Film Scoring Process Collaborating with Filmmakers it's always very exiting where we try to find the sound that will best support the film scenes but also more to create a continuous evolving through-out the film that supports the drama.

Spotting the Film We watch the film together in my studio and make choices on where and what type of music would be needed.

Writing the Cues The music composition process takes place and also the importance of decision making regarding if the film music composition is either created only with virtual instruments, recorded inside the computer or with the live players that involves a little different planing. Then the music ideas are sketched out on the paper with a piano, by creating melodic and harmonic ideas with the desired tempo. If there will be a live instrument recorded, sheet music has to be created for the performer. The process of creating so called mock-up can serve as an idea for the director, before the music is shared with an orchestrator in order to create a full size score and parts to be recorded of the all music cues on the scoring stage and replace the mock-up cues. Often the mock-up version becomes the only music that is given to audio engineer to create the entire score mix.

Dubbing Stage After the entire music is mixed as well as SFX and dialog, all those elements are mixed together as a final step.

Film Score

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Conductor & Arranger Over many years Chris was supporting orchestras, bands and choirs as a music director conductor and composer creating unforgettable memories that lasts.

Gaining valuable experience from directing Gospel and Pop choirs as well as creating arrangements for Pop stars with CD recordings, contributed to today's invaluable understanding of a new project no matter of how large or small in order to make the live performance a success.

Chris is always thriving for excellence no matter what project he's involved with.

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Chris Piorkowski is a Los Angeles based Film Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor, and Audio Engineer. He studied Symphonic Orchestra Conducting and later Orchestration with Steven Scott Smalley . Chris received a Diploma (as an Honor Student) in Sound Engineering and Music Production from Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He also received a Diploma in Media Composition from Music For The Media in London. For two and a half years he was composing and performing clarinet and piano at Zan Pollo Theater in Berlin . He studied Jazz Piano with Walter Norris and Jazz Harmony with Sigi Bush at Music University Berlin( HDK). Since that time he worked in many recording studios on various projects. In 1996 he received a Scholarship form Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he later studied Film Scoring and Orchestration. He continued his education in the University of Newcastle Australia -Music Technology Master Program. In 1999 Chris Piorkowski was selected because of his outstanding achievement in composition and arrangement to score, produce and arrange the Theme Song of The Boxing World Cup in Helsinki . In addition to his many composition projects, Chris was chosen as an orchestrator, composer, arranger and audio engineer for German Pop star/recording artist ; Guildo Horn ( Eurovision Song Contest 89’). Chris was accompanying Singer Melissa Swift Sawyer in Ellie Caulkins Opera House Denver with Governor Bill Ritter and Mayor John Hickenlooper present.

University of Newcastle Australia

Beklee College of Music

Vermont College Of Fine Arts

Music For The Media

Audio Institute of America

Tracking, Mixing & Mastering Wonderful cooperation with Fernando from PigSound allow us to do Voice-overs, tracking, mixing and Mastering.

Larger Recording Studios A & B If desired we are able to use a larger studio in order to accommodate mid to large big bands as well as small size orchestra.

Soundstage Filmmakers do have a great opportunity to use sound-stage in this facility complex during working on other post production stages.

Foley Stage As needed the full size Foley stage is prepared to handle large film and TV projects.

Additional Services at Sound City Studios 9

Sound City Studios 15452 Cabrito Road #207 Van Nuys CA 91406

Phone:310.597.1455 E-Mail:chrispiorkowski@ymail.com www.chrispiorkowski.com