Jim McKee      jim@earwaxproductions.com

PROFILE: Jim McKee is currently an active owner of earwax productions inc., San Francisco, which he co-founded in 1983. He received his Master of Fine Arts from The Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, California and his Bachelor of Music Education from Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Virginia. In addition to his sound design work, he has lectured at YLE Radio in Helsinki Finland, The Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in South Africa, Western Public Radio, San Francisco State, RTé Radio Ireland, CCAC and The College for Recording Arts.

EXPERIENCE: As a sound designer, composer, engineer and technical producer, Jim works primarily with computers, samplers and tape, using concrete sound elements and human voice to build impressionistic and abstract sound environments. Works are generally designed in collaboration with film producers, playwrights, radio producers, and performance artists using multi-track recording, samplers, digital editing, computer synthesis and a wide variety of studio processing techniques. His experience includes mixing, engineering and sound design for national broadcast television, radio, commercial and drama, research and production for interactive, multimedia and DVD/CD-ROM. Radio credits include; Locations for Bay Area Radio Drama, Lost and Found Sound for National Public Radio¹s All Things Considered, as well as feature programs for Radio Atelier Finish Broadcasting , New American Radio, Soundprint and PRI. Film credits include; Cast Away, Final Fantasy, IMAX films Whales and Yellowstone for Destination Cinema, special effects sound design for Bram Stoker's Dracula, and design and effects with American Zoetrope for The Secret Garden.

AWARDS: As a partner in earwax productions inc. since 1983, Jim enjoys along with two other partners, the reputation of having been voted best sound design team in San Francisco. earwax has also won honors in The Bay Area Critics Circle awards, Northern California Broadcasters, Association of Independents in Radio, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy Award for Francis Ford Coppola's production of Bram Stoker's Dracula, for which Jim contributed design concepts and sound effects along with the sound team of Columbia Pictures and American Zoetrope.

CLIENTS: American Zoetrope, LucasFilm LTD., Pathe/MGM Entertainment, Cannon Films National Public Radio, Bay Area Radio Drama, West German Radio, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, The Kitchen Sisters, Finnish Broadcasting, Destination Cinema, Apple Computer Inc., MTV, Colossal Pictures, Banana Republic, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Landor & Associates, , Magic Theater, Simon and Schuster Clark Shoes, Royal Viking Lines, Visible Interactive, CAPS Software, , Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau, Mondo Media, National Wildlife Federation, Meta Design, Sea Studios, and many others.

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