Music Composer & Sound Effects Designer
GARY BOGGESS
160 N. Park Ave., Warren, Ohio 44481 * PH: (330) 394-5605
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Recent Work 1992-99
Foley for New Feature Film; "Seventh Veil"
*April 1999 - Boggess Music & Sound just completed production of all of the Foley effects for a new feature film, "Seventh Veil", produced by Heron Pictures Corp. of Hollywood, CA.  The 95 minute murder/detective screenplay was directed by veteran director, Amin Q. Chaudhri ("Tiger Warsaw", "A Remarkable Life", "Diary of a Hitman").  The films cast includes Lewis Smith ("Wyatt Earp",  "Diary of a Hit Man", "North and South I & II", "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" and "Southern Comfort"  Also starring Christine Harnos, ("Hollywood Confidential", "Hellraiser: Bloodline", "Cool and The Crazy", "Denial" and "Cold Dog Soup"). Ryan Eldred, from the LA sound effects group, Sound Dogs , was the sound supervisor for the film. The film was mixed at New Island Studios of Hollywood. Seventh Veil is to be released by SONY's Tri-Star Pictures this summer as a direct to video release.

Jingle for Scrappers Basball Team
*April '99 - Boggess was the producer of a jingle and musical theme that will be used for the new baseball team, The Scappers. This spring, the new baseball team will have it's first season in their new stadium ball park, Cafaro Field, behind Cafaro's Eastwood Mall in Niles, Ohio. TV host, Rick Blackson, wrote the song that will serve as the promotional radio jingle and as the theme for The Scrapper's television sports show, The Scrappers Baseball Weekly, on TV-33.  

*May '99 - The rock group, FLYING CIRCUS, hired Boggess to produce their first album. The band was the first to use BMS's TASCAM DA-88 eight track digital deck with the SY-88 sync card.  More later...

Recent Chicago Premier of "SegWay"
In 1990, Boggess' art music evolved out of a collaboration with dancer and mime Nicholas Johnson. The two hour music score for multi-media play "SegWay," has literally defined a new musical genre unique to Boggess. "SegWay" first premiered March 2nd & 3rd, 1994 in Tucson, Arizona at the Leo Rich Little Theatre and received very good reviews. "SegWay" premiered in Chicago at the Ruth Page Dance Center, in June, 1996.

In June 1996, "SegWay" premiered the second time in Chicago, where Boggess received three good reviews which compared his music with notable film composer John Williams and placed his music within a category with Steven Speilburg's films. Reviewers from The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Reader said: "Boggess' music sounded like something John Williams may have written... Gary's music was more appropriate for a Steven Speilburg film..."

Sound Designer in Hollywood
Winter 1992, "Millennium And Five Dances" earned the attention of film composer and sound effects wizard, Alan Howarth, who's film credits include: "Star Gate," "Dracula," "The Hunt For Red October," "Back To The Future I & II," "Poltergeist" I & II, "Gremlins," "Little Mermaid," "Indiana Jones" and "Star Trek I -VI." Howarth invited Boggess to be associate composer at his Electric Melody Studios facility, above George Lucas' Skywalker South, in Santa Monica, CA. Boggess worked with Alan for one year from Spring '92 thru Summer '93, and returned to Warren to reopen his own post audio facility, Boggess Music & Sound. Gary and Alan still work as associates when possible.

Student Films
*February '99 - Student filmmaker, Marc Moody, from Ohio University's School of Film, in Athens, Ohio, chose BMS to post his 30 minute student film musical "Victor".  Based on a true 'real life drama' that happened in France in 1797. Gary Boggess provided complete post audio editorials, including dialog editing, sound effects, Foleys and final mixing. Moody also plays one of the film's lead roles, Phillipe.

*December '98 - LA Filmmaker, Audra Lindsey, has chose Boggess Music & Sound to provide complete post audio editorial services for her 45 minute film, "Between Friends." Gary was the dialog editor, sound effects designer, Foley artist, background SFX, original music composer and final mixer. The film features approx. 20 minutes of original music by Gary Boggess. The open and end title piece, "Between Friends", was written to invoke the sound of Al Green. The final soundtrack was layed back to D2 digital video at The Image Producers in Canfield, Ohio.

*December '97 - December '97, student filmmakers Ana Luzardo-Flores & Dia Kontaxis, both from Ohio University's Film School in Athens, Ohio, were at Boggess Music & Sound for post audio editorials on each of their individual thesis & second year film projects. Both projects required extensive dialog editorials. BMS also provided sound effects design and Foley  for the films. Ana's film, "The Other Woman" is a 12 minute 16mm B&W drama about a nightmare about a love triangle, as told through the eyes of the 'other woman'. Boggess wrote an original music score for Ana's film, "The Other Woman."  Dia's film, "Aqua Vitae" is a 10 minute film was edited on AVID, and was about a girl with a dream she could only make real for herself.  Both films are finished and to be featured at various film festivals in the first quarter of 1998.

Theactrical Music and Sound Effects
*May '98 Dancer,  Choreographer, Theatrical Mime and now Director Of Dance at Wichita State University, Nick Johnson, recently commissioned Gary Boggess to write a original six minute musical work for his new piece titled "Body Of Music." In a recent news interview, Johnson described the new work: "Body of Music is a mime piece designed to bring to life the sound of silence. Mime theatre has traditionally been preoccupied with silence. In Body of Music, the sounds are part of the internal soundscape heard within the mind of the mime and the individual audience member. It is not, and cannot be a shared experience. Body of Music was created to give life to movement."

*January '98 - Theatrical Mime and performer, Gregg Goldston commissioned Gary Boggess to create a sound sculpture for is stage piece, "POW", a play about a Veteran and his recurring nightmares. The SFX piece required many special sound effects and musical effects that worked with Goldston's physical movements and visual gestures on the stage.

*February '98 - Boggess produced and mastered a recording of the Warren Chamber Orchestra at Christ Episcopal Church 2/7/98. The concert event, titled "Mozart Moments", featured the music of guess who?... and was conducted by guest conductor Susan Davenny Wyner, who's spirited direction challenged the orchestra members. The program included; Symphony No.23, KV/K.181 in D Major, Sinfonia Concertante, K.364 in E-flat Major featuring John Wilcox and Elizabeth Jones as soloists.  Also played was Symphony No. 40, K.550 in g minor. T

* 1998 - Jazz percussionist Darryl Alexander produced his first two CD album projects here at Boggess Music & Sound. His albums, "Coast To Coast" and "17th Street" are getting steady air play nationally and in Europe. Boggess played various synth and piano keyboard solos on the CDs, which also featured many Ohio jazz artists. Alexander's CD's are charting sales worldwide, and are currently being played as theme and bumper music on the Maury Pauvich show.

*August '97- Producer, Ron Hughes, from GM Lordstown's Video department contracted Boggess Music & Sound to create original music, sound effects and editorials for their new (26 minute) video project, "The Image Of Lordstown". The video features the combined efforts and talents of many GM/Lordstown employees. They recreated the music video, "Remember The Times," by Micheal Jackson. The lyrics were changed to sing, "we believe in the cars that we build." GM Lordstown hosted a special showing to the public, employees, and to the Vice President of General Motors, and guest of honor, George Voinovitch, on August 18th, 1997 at the plant.

* March '97, Boggess was contracted as a sound effects recordist to collect raw sound materials for Bruce Stambler ('96 Oscar Winner for sound effects editorial for "The Ghost And the Darkness") of Sound Storm Studios, in Burbank, CA. Gary collected two hours of ice and snow effects for Arnold Schwarzenegger's menacing character,"Mr. Freeze," in the new feature film "Batman and Robin," scheduled for release in June '97.

* January '96, Gary was music composer, production recordist, sound effects designer and sound editor & mixer for Continental Film Group's television series pilot "America, Amerika." He's also composer and sound designer for three feature films to be produced by CFG in '97. The first film to be "The Master Mechanic."

* '96-'97, created jingles for The Cafaro Company's Eastwood, Northpark, Southhill, Millcreek and Southland Malls. He collaborated with John Cessario at EDR/Beachwood Studios in Cleveland as composer and musician to produce music for three national TV spots for Integra Bank.

* Summer 1994, Gary composed original music and designed sound effects for The Club, the anti-car-theft device. The television commercial, "The Club: Saturn," aired on local and cable television stations nationwide, and earned significant music performance royalties from ASCAP.

* Winter '92, composed and premiered an orchestral work titled "Butterfly Theme" for the $58 million dollar Las Vegas project, "The Fremont Street Experience." This is an extravagant mechanical parade installation using sound, lasers and music to extend the casino environment onto Fremont Street.

* Designed sound effects for HBO feature movie "Barbarians at the Gate," starring James Garner. It premiered on HBO in March '93 and won the Golden Globe Award for best made for TV movie in '93.

* Gary performed on, and engineered two jazz albums for percussionist, Darryl Alexander, of Youngstown, OH. Both albums, "Coast to Coast" and "17th Street," are charting sales worldwide and and are currently being played as theme and bumper music on the Maury Pauvich show. Darryl is currently working on his 3rd album at Boggess Music & Sound.

* Designed sound effects for an American Telecast Corporation (ATC) corporate history video featuring narrator, James Earl Jones, and for the PBS program, "History Of Water In Orange County."

* Designed sound effects for Full Moon Entertainment feature trailers: "Robot Wars," "Bloodstone," "Subspecies I & I I, " "Mandroid," "The Lurking Fear," "Puppetmaster IV" and their Moonbeam Entertainment "Video Zone" animated logo/montage.

* Composed original music score for a Xerox corporate video titled "Lake County," and created a music/FX logo for their Media West video production center, in Santa Monica, CA.

* Designed sound effects for a Spago's Restaurant video, "The Celebrity Guide To Home Entertainment," and for Lark commercials titled "Side Car" and "Jump Jet," for showing in movie theaters throughout Japan, and for Pepsi's "Algebra Class From Hell" television commercial.

Career History 1971 to Present...
ASCAP composer and musician Gary Boggess has 27 years of professional experience in music and many of its related disciplines. He attended Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music with a major in music composition. In 1972 he co-formed a jazz/rock group named I Don't Care. Their album release titled "Ask Anyone," on United Artist's Buddah label, received a mixed review in the October '76 Rolling Stone magazine. After opening for national acts like Bruce Springsteen, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Dr. Hook, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Glass Harp, The James Gang, Spirit, Frank Zappa and Larry Coryell, I.D.C. unraveled and Boggess pursued his growing interest in electronic music. Seeing the need of a facility capable of addressing the complex requirements of such music, he designed and built his studio Music Island Digital in 1976... now Boggess Music & Sound.

Since, Gary has composed over 60 hours of music for nearly every medium. In 1981, Boggess served as resident composer at Kent State University for a period of two years. During this time Boggess began producing jingles and soundtracks for companies such as GM, American Greetings, B.F. Goodrich, PPG Industries, Babcock and Wilcox, Goodyear and documentary films produced by The Ohio Department of Education, National Geographic, and NASA. Since 1976, he has been composer and sound designer for over 45 theatrical productions, by Kent State's University Theatre and Summer Stock Programs, The Youngstown Playhouse, Trumbull New Theatre, The Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland State University Theatre and The Lincoln Ford Centre in N.Y.C. and many others.

Clients and Projects
* Producer, performer and arranger for Northeast Ohio artists too numerous to list, and has performed on several C.B.S. aerobics albums and other 'specialty product' releases.

* In 1982, he appeared on a concept album titled "Starhand Visions" with vocalist Gary Grimes. Boggess was featured as a pianist, synthesist and arranger on the project, released on the Direct-Disk Labs record label.

* Gary is keyboardist with Network, a contemporary jazz group, performing throughout Ohio since '89.

* Engineered an album by harpist Kirk Kupensky titled "The Fog Is Lifting" on Threnody Records, which is standard play on the PBS Music From the Hearts Of Space radio program. The album featured a (previously never recorded) new work, "Sonata," by the great string composer, Alan Hovhaness.

* Boggess has written several hours of songs and music for children. His scores at Kent State University Theatre for "Alice In Wonderland," "Pinocchio," "Wizard Of Oz" and "Snow White" are wonderfully fun and imaginative. He's written songs and music for several children 'specialty projects', including the commercially released video, "My Potty," for Kids In Daily Situations, Inc., of Cleveland Ohio.

* His composition "Dance For the Planet," for a Diamond Shamrock International video was given the 1980 Award of Excellence by the Cleveland Society Of Communicating Arts.

* Dance piece, "Conference Of The Birds," was performed at Cal Arts in California in 1984 in a concert featuring new percussion music.

* His conceptual dance work titled "Tornado" for dancer Jeanine Thompson, brought rave reviews from the Ohio Arts Council in 1987.

* Gary's art and dance music includes a series of compositions for The Invisible People, a mime troupe based out of Columbus, Ohio. They have exposed Gary's music to audiences nationwide and abroad.

Technical & Artistic Breakthrough In 1991
In 1991, Gary was commissioned by the city of Warren, Ohio, with the support of the Ohio Arts Council and the Fine Arts Council Trumbull, to compose the orchestral work "Millennium," for the city's New Year's Eve Festival of the Arts Opening Night '90 program. The work was well received by the people of Warren and led Boggess to compile dance works created for Johnson's "SegWay" with "Millennium," for Boggess' 1992 album release titled "Millennium And Five Dances."

"Millennium" was a breakthrough piece. It was the first time Boggess was able to achieve and realize his lifetime goal of producing a large scale orchestral work, using electronic music instruments. Newly acquired MIDI and orchestral sound modules enabled him to create the dense orchestration and musical performance values that he had only dreamed of, since 1972.

"Millennium And Five Dances" premiered on PBS radio affiliate WYSU in January of '92 and was highly praised by Wendy Carlos, composer of film scores for "A Clockwork Orange," "The Shining" and "Tron." Her Switched On Bach album series on C.B.S. established the Moog synthesizer as a viable instrument.