About

Music Comrade is Ari DeSano, an LA-based composer and performer. I can create custom music for your next advertising, film, TV, or video game project. I create music in many genres including orchestral, electronic, rock, western swing, early jazz, and cabaret.

Since I have a love for a variety of musical styles I am able to offer flexibility and a fresh approach. From my experience writing chamber music, playing drums in indie rock bands, creating aleatoric computer music with Max/MSP for art gallery installations, and arranging and playing early jazz, western swing, and cabaret music on banjo and accordion, I have a wide open take on what music can be.

Experience

• Composed music and created sound effects for Warner Bros. Harry Potter Flash game
• Composed music and created sound effects for Kaplan education CD-Rom
• Computer music installations at galleries in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan
• Music for theater at HERE!, Dixon Place, and Vineyard Theater in NYC
• Meet the Composer grant for theater music
• Played drums in indie rock bands at various venues like Knitting Factory and Brownies in NYC

Education

• UCLA Extension Entertainment Studies Program:
  Classes in film scoring, music for videogames, and music for commercials
• NYU Music Technology Program
• Cleveland Institute of Music