Barney Jones      barney@earwaxproductions.com

PROFILE: Barney Jones was born in Instanbul, Turkey . His first ten years were spent in the Middle East and Africa, including Nigeria, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. His earliest musical memories include the Islamic Call to Prayer, Humperdink's HANSEL & GRETEL, and The Peppermint Twist.

After receiving a Bachelor of Music in composition from Northwestern University School of Music in 1976, he formed THE OVERKILLS, the first punk band in the Washington, D.C. area. The next several years he spent composing, conducting and singing opera in the Chicago area.

In the 1980's he moved to California, taking an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College and composing music for Magic Theatre, American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theater. He was commissioned to write the music and libretto for two operas by the San Francisco experimental theater company SOON-3. With Jim McKee, he formed Earwax Productions and received National Endowment grants to create original radio works including SONGS FROM THE TENDERLOIN and WAKE FOR TOM, both of which have been played all over the U.S. as well as in Australia.

Since the collapse of communism Mr. Jones has been making music and sound design for commercial projects, including CD-ROMs and interactive computer environments (MR. POTATOHEAD, TONKA CONSTRUCTION, GREEN EGGS AND HAM, RUGRATS, CATDOG, Universal Studios' WOODY WOODPECKER, and Disney Imagineering's DISNEY QUEST), television and radio ads (Hunt-Wesson, Aiwa, Apple Computer, California Grapes), and feature films (Francis Ford Coppola's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA and THE RAINMAKER, Pixar's TOY STORY II and Wayne Wang's ANYWHERE BUT HERE).

CREDITS
1998-2001 TOY STORY II, FINDING NEMO, MONSTERS, INC. temp music editor for the Pixar feature films.

2000 EASTMAN KODAK, created sound logos for Kodak digital machines.

2000 THE GOOD WAR & THOSE WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT IT, composed score for 57 minute PBS documentary about World War II.

1999 WOODY WOODPECKER, composed music and supervised sound design for this kiosk at Universal Studios, Japan.

1999 ANYWHERE BUT HERE, temp music editor for the Wayne Wang feature edited by Nick Smith.

1998-2000 RUGRATS, composed music and created sound design for 3 different CD-ROM games based on the Rugrats TV show.

1998 EARTHQUAKE, composed orchestral score for the new EARTHQUAKE ROOM at the Academy of Science.

1997 THE RAINMAKER, created and edited temp music for Francis Ford Coppola's film (also assistant music editor).

1996 GREEN EGGS & HAM, composed music and created sound design for Broderbund's CDROM version of the classic Dr. Seuss book.

1996 TOY STORY, created sound design cues for Pixarıs CDROM game based on the movie.

1995 MR. POTATOHEAD, TONKA CONSTRUCTION, composed music and created sound design for Hasbro's CDROM versions of the popular toys.

1994-2000 COMMERCIALS: composed music and created sound design for television and radio ads: CALIFORNIA GRAPES, ROUNDTABLE PIZZA, AIWA ELECTRONICS, CALIFORNIA DAIRY, EIDOS:NINJA, SNACK PACK PUDDING, CORN NUTS and S.F. ZOO. Ad agencies include Winkler, Ketchum, Young & Rubicam, McCann Erickson, and Holland Advertising.

1994 MRS. DOUBTFIRE, created music temp track for the operatic opening of Chris Columbus' comedy.

1995 PINNOCHIO, created and edited temp music track for Francis Ford Coppola's musical film sketch of the classic story.

1995 JUDGE DREDD, cast and directed the loop group for crowd scenes, machine voices and incidental roles.

1995 SHEILA RAE THE BRAVE, composed and produced music for Living Books' animated story CDROM. Based on the popular kids book by Kevin Henkes.

1994 SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOODS: THE MISSION, composed music for the one-hour TV documentary about the history of San Francisco's oldest neighborhood. Produced by KQED and narrated by Isabel Allende.

1990 BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, created musical/choral effects for Francis Ford Coppolaıs vampire picture.

1989-98 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, Composed music for interactive educational products (four laser discs and several CDROMS).

1994 GRAYLINE TOUR OF SAN FRANCISCO, composed music for a three-hour bus tour around San Francisco.

1993 DINO ALIVE, designed scary voices for forty foot dinosaur animatronics. Designed by Chris Walas and installed in Osaka, Japan.

1989-91 SOON-3, composed music and libretto for two operas, ACE TABOO and VEER.

1986-94 RADIO ART, created original half-hour public radio pieces that explore subjects such as digital culture, homeless death, heavy metal mania, and the dying lumber industry. Funded by NPR and NEA.

1990 THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND & ZAK McKRACKEN, original scores for two video games produced by the Games Division of Lucasfilm Ltd.

1988 THE DEAD, and other stories from DUBLINERS, produced and directed Kate Mulgrew and Danny Huston in a books-on-tape version of the classic James Joyce short stories. Published by Audio Editions.

1987-88 BABBITT, by Sinclair Lewis. Edited the twenty-nine part radio series. Produced and performed by Ed Asner and the Los Angeles Classic Theatre Works for KCRW in Los Angeles.

1981-86 CONDUCTOR, MUSIC DIRECTOR of Chicago's Light Opera Works. Conducting an average of three fully staged operas per season.

1985-91 MAGIC THEATRE, A.C.T., EUREKA THEATRE, resident composer/sound designer. Productions include HOUSE OF YES, ANGELS IN AMERICA, NOTHING SACRED, TEMPTATION, LLOYDıS PRAYER, JACQUES AND HIS MASTER, FRANKIE & JOHNNY AT THE CLAIRE DE LUNE, AUNT DAN AND LEMON, HONEYMOON, MANSLAUGHTER, SCAR, APOCALYPTIC BUTTERFLIES, SHARON & BILLY and many more.

1984-87 STAFF COMPOSER and vocal director for Antenna Theater. Collaborated on several productions: RUSSIA ( Next Wave Festival at BAM in Brooklyn), AMNESIA (Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles) and RADIO INTERFERENCE (the Media Lab at MIT) and others.

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