TV Composer: Winston Cook-Wilson
Name: Winston Cook-Wilson
Email: winstoncookwilson@gmail.com
Website: http://
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Category: TV Composers
Styles of Music Composed: Pop, jazz, avant-garde, classical, avant-garde classical, electronic, ambient, folk, blues, soundscape, novelty songs
Composing Background or Education: Skills/Experience: -10 years of composing, performing and recording original music and songs -3 years of private composition lessons (classical) -training in orchestration, arranging and conducting -experience with synthesizers, drum machines and analog samplers -experience with music software (Ableton Live and ProTools, some Logic Pro and Max/MSP) -experience composing and transcribing music using Sibelius
-independent work on theater and film scores both at Hamilton College and in New York City (working with the Human Group, Astrolab Productions and the Manhattan Repertory Theater). Education: Hamilton College, B.A., focusing in musicology and composition Stony Brook University, one year of masters’ work, focusing in musicology
Musical Equipment and Instruments: Keyboards (NORD stage piano, Yamaha P-155 digital piano, Krumar string synthesizer, MicoKORG), electric/acoustic guitar, electric/upright bass, banjo, accordion, drums/percussion, Roland SP-404 sampler, Ableton Live, etc.
Philosophy as a Composer: I don’t like to write anything that sounds like something I have already written.
Additional Information: Check out my band Ball of Flame Shoot Fire (recently named one of L Magazine’s “Top 8 Bands in NYC”) @ www.myspace.com/bofsf.
June 2nd, 2010