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terryogara's profile Terry O'Gara / Male / Member since April 2008 / Last seen 1 year ago

Terry O'Gara is a creative consultant and an award winning commercial music producer based in the New York Metro area. He has produced audio projects for many leading multinational advertising and entertainment companies. Past projects include Super Bowl TV spots, Sonic IDs for Network and Cable; and music, sound design and sonic branding for theme parks, electronic games. In 1998 he co-founded Blister Media, the first music production house, which catered to the unique needs of Silicon Alley.

Terry currently provides consulting services to a variety of creative media ventures from New York to Los Angeles.

A self-described 'Third Culture Kid' Terry spent his childhood living abroad, often in developing countries (Peru and Saudi Arabia among them). As a result he has a tendency to seek artistic inspiration in the examination, appreciation and analysis of global culture.

The thematic device of 'Flipping' (or reversing) cultural and political assumptions, as well as collaging disparate genres, informs much of his work.

In addition to music, Terry’s multidisciplinary background also includes a combination of dance and performance art. Along the way he has conducted modern dance classes for and performed to members of the National Dance Theater of Hungary; lent his character voice over talents to animated Chex Mix cereal and Guinness Stout commercials; picked up a CLIO; performed in two experimental films directed by Benita Raphan; and was cast in another, the highly provocative "Me Meat We War" by notable Australian painter, performance artist and film maker Theresa Byrnes.

Terry received a BFA in 1992 from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he also served for three years as the President of the Experimental Performing Arts Society. His training was further expanded by intensive training at North Carolina School of the Arts, classes at both the Martha Graham School and The Stella Adler Studio for Acting, and instruction from Alvin Nikolai, Murray Louis, composer Sergio Cervetti and composer/songwriter/guitarist Richard Lloyd of the seminal punk band, Television.

My Blogs

CRITICAL NOISE

http://criticalnoise.blogspot.com/

CRITICAL NOISE features essays upon the many aspects sound. Topics include natural phenomena, the urban landscape, modern music production and sonic branding. The author…

Death to the Infidels

http://al-inshiqaq.blogspot.com/

DEATH TO THE INFIDELS ('D2I') is an illustrated work of fiction, posted as a ongoing work-in-progress, which examines post 911 east/west perceptions by flipping the seque…

Online Music Phenoms

http://onlinemusicphenoms.blogspot.com/

Billed as 'A Music Supervisor's Delight', Online Music Phenoms features an eclectic mix of videos from around the world. Selections include genres as diverse as J-Pop and…

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