Artist Circle

Oquin is among the most performed American composers working today. A native of Houston, Texas, his music has been premiered on five continents, twenty-one countries, and in forty-five states, by organizations such as The Danish National Symphony, The Munich Philharmonic, The Pacific Symphony, and The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as by The King's Singers, pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, and Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs. by his own admission one of the least likely composers to be using technology to realize his compositions. He often writes at (and away from) the piano, putting pencil to paper. He doesn’t even own a MIDI keyboard, nor an iPad. But he has learned how music technology can aid a composer to fully realize their creations long before the piece gets its first rehearsal with the musicians who will perform it. 

Nick Petrillo knows what goes into scoring a film or television show. Read how the 20-year industry vet has earned a reputation for his top-tier production and how he uses Audio Modeling's SWAM instruments & Camelot for both live shows and studio work.

What happens when you accidently drop a Dolby 301 unit? Producer/Engineer Joe Barresi has plenty of stories and techniques up his sleeve, one of which is being an avid user of Overloud products. We dropped by his California studio with our friend Sabino Cannone, founder of MoReVoX and designer of REmatrix to see how he uses Overloud's Dopamine and REmatrix in his sessions. He even shares great advice to aspiring engineers and producers!

LA based singer, saxophonist and music producer Alex Charles has been steadily making his mark in the industry. In addition to his own music, Alex has been writing music for one of Warner Brothers' music libraries for over three years and has had his music placed hundreds of times on major network television shows. We caught up with Alex to learn the secrets of generating income from writing library music, and how he uses that to finance his personal music projects.

An American visual and sound artist, Stephen Vitiello has a talent for transforming, as he puts it, "incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment." In this video interview we learned that Stephen has been using the granular sampler plug-in Stream by Delta Sound Labs to transform field recordings into music.

In this interview, we'll find out how L.A. based mixer Narek Ambar got to where he is, what motivates him, and we'll learn about that certain plugin that caused his path to cross with ours at ILIO.

Jason Yang has earned a reputation as one of the premier acoustic and electric violin players in the world. With 197,000 subscribers and 35 million views on his YouTube channel, you can find him playing exciting covers of popular songs in a wide variety of musical genres, his own compositions, and collaborations with other artists. He describes his overall sound as “evocative, colorful, and emotional,” drawing on a wide range of influences, including film and video game soundtracks, electronic music, and hip hop.