DENNIS HYSOM ~ Audio Producer
www.compozarts.com
www.wooleycat.com
dhysom@compozarts.com
Ph  707.824.0652
Fax 707.823.6676
8196 Elphick Road
Sebastopol CA 95472

EXPERTISE

Sound Design ~ Music Composition ~ Project Management ~ Production ~ Creative Direction ~ Editing ~
Field Recording ~ Voice Recording ~ Concept Development ~ Mastering ~ Talent Selection & Direction ~ Songwriting & Demo Production ~ Guitar and Keyboard Performance

Proficient in ProTools, Digital Performer, Wave Plug-ins

ALBUMS

Composing, Field Recording, Production, Project Management from concept to master.

The "Last Great Places Series" was commissioned by The Nature Conservancy and The Nature Company/Discovery Communications, Inc. All titles except for Cloud Forest are currently available through North Star Music.

Cloud Forest - Original music with nature recordings from Costa Rica

Glacier Bay - Original music with nature recordings from Alaska

Bayou - Original music with nature recordings from Louisiana

Caribbean - Original music with nature recordings from Belize, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Dominica, and Antigua

Prairie - Original music with nature recordings from North and South Dakota

Ocean Planet - Original music with natural sounds from the world’s oceans

In Joyful Harmony - Compilation of international children’s choirs singing traditional songs of joy and peace, including sourcing of recordings and recording of the Warsaw Boys’ Choir

Wonders of the Season - Natural Wonders, Inc. Original arrangements of traditional Christmas Carols combined with sounds of nature.

CHILDREN’S MUSIC

All projects feature Dennis Hysom singing and performing on guitar along with other musicians and character voice talent sourced and directed by Dennis. Also includes all songwriting, creative direction, project management, and sound design. Audio projects have been released through BMG Kidz, United Media Licensing, Tortuga Press and Compozarts.

BMG KIDZ/United Media Licensing

The Wooleycat’s Favorite Nursery Rhymes - 12 original songs audio package
  Winner of 1992 Early Childhood News Directors’ Choice Award
  The 1992 National Parenting Seal of Approval
  The 1993 National Parenting Publications Award (Gold Medal)

The Wooleycat’s Favorite Fairy Tales - 14 original songs audio package
  Winner of 1992 Early Childhood News Award
  Winner of the 1994 National Parenting Publications Award (Honors Medal)

The Wonderful World of the Wooleycat - 45-minute home video

Animal Songs for Everyone - Original and newly arranged traditional songs featuring recordings of animals

SongPlay Hooray! - 13 original songs audio package
  Winner of the 1990 Parents’ Choice Gold Award

The Wooleycat Tales - Original songs on audio cassette
  Tracking the Wild Wooleycat
  The Wonderful World of the Wooleycat
  The Wooleycat Wishing Tree

Wooleycat's Musical Theater - A 32-page picture book with 10-song CD, published by Tortuga Press, 2003.
  One of the “Top Ten Winter Book Sense” children’s books of 2003-2004.

AUDIO FOR MUSEUMS

~ Antenna Audio
Milwaukee Art Museum - Recorded & Edited Biedermeier Furniture Exhibit Audio Tour
Chicago Marshall Fields -Recorded & Edited Trend House Audio Tour
Guggenheim Museum - Edited the Kandinsky Exhibit Director's Audio Tour
Guggenheim Museum - Edited Spanish, French & Italian translations of Director's Tour
Dallas Museum of Art - Recorded & Edited Fast Forward Modern Art audio tour
New Orleans Museum of Art- Recorded & Edited 'Femme Femme Femme' Modern Art audio tour
Alcatraz- Recorded & Edited Blue & Gold audio tour
Chicago Field Museum- Recorded & Edited audio tour featuring Peter Sagal of NPR's 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me'
SF Designer's Showcase- Recorded & Edited audio tour
Point of Interest Podcasts for San Diego, Boston, Chicago and New York City
San Juan Capistrano Monument Tour - French & German Translations
National Palace Museum- China: Mandarin & Japanese Translations
SFMOMA- Matisse & Beyond
SMOMA - Matisse & Beyond iPhone
Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC- 'Pietre Dure' Exhibit Audio

SOUND FOR FILM

~Apocalypto
Provided rainforest ambiences and howler monkey vocalizations for Mel Gibson’s ‘Apocalypto’- currently available in DVD

AUDIO FOR EDUCATION

~LeapFrog Enterprises
Composed over 400 individual pieces of music ranging from 3 to 45 seconds in length for educational toys.
Projects: Disney’s Princesses, Dr. Suess (One Fish Two Fish & Woset), Stanley, Rugrats & SpongeBob Squarepants

INTERACTIVE

E-Nature - Arctic National Wildlife Preserve soundscape for E-Nature website

Great Waves/Chicago Tribune -
   Redwoods, Educational CD-ROM
   Prairies, Educational CD-ROM

Media Vision - Forever Growing Garden
  Original music and sound design for educational CD-ROM game, developed by C-Wave

National Audubon Society - Interactive CD-ROM Guide to North American Birds
  Original music underscores and 66 original 20-second soundscapes specific to individual ecosystems

Virgin Interactive/C-Wave - Slice ’n Hook
  Original music, sound effects creation, and sound design for a haunted miniature golf CD-ROM game

EXHIBIT SOUND DESIGN

Discovery Communications, Inc. - Eight biome surround-sound sculptures for Discovery Channel flagship retail store, Washington, DC

Discovery Museum - Under the Sea exhibit soundscape, Sausalito, CA

Napa Museum - Six soundscapes of Northern California biomes, Napa, CA

Walnut Creek National Wildlife Refuge - Tall Grass Prairie exhibit soundscape, Prairie Learning Center, Prairie City, IAPUBLICATIONS

DIALOGUE AND VOCAL RECORDING AND EDITING

Includes sound design, music composition, and midi programming.

Artist Clients
Parcival - Audio CD read by a storyteller/performer of mythical tales

Spoken Gift - California Poets recite original work

The Jenkins - Demo production, vocal coaching, and recording of new Capitol Records singing group

Tortuga Press
  Gobble Quack Moon - Audio CD to accompany a children’s book, read by the author
  Super Grandpa - Audio CD to accompany a children’s book based on a translation of a Swedish story, read by a storyteller/performer

BROADCAST ADVERTISING & CORPORATE VIDEOS
Music composition, sound design, audio production

Cal-Trans - 15-minute educational video

Christian Brothers - 30-minute product positioning video

Hyundai - National television 30-second spot

Mondavi Vineyards - The Gracious Life, 30-minute product positioning video

Samsung Electronics - 30-minute corporate sales promotional tradeshow video

SOUND LIBRARY

Field collection, creation, and archiving of sounds for licensing to projects on request.

Engineer for Netcast Central Podcasting, Santa Rosa