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Barney Jones
Barney Jones was born in Istanbul, 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).
Mr. Jones has written a piece for the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater to be performed at the Beijing Olympics.For a full list of Mr. Jones credits visit : http://www.earwaxproductions.com/barneymore.html