Alan Howarth

Sonic Composer, Alan Howarth, started his major credits in 1979 when Alan met the sound effects team for Star Trek-The Motion Picture, launching him as a sound designer for the following 6 Star Trek feature films. Alan's next milestone was the film "Escape From New York" where he collaborated on music scoring with the director and composer, John Carpenter, and continued to work on scores for "Halloween 2-6", "Christine", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness" and "They Live". His award-winning Sound Design work placed him on the Oscar-winning sound effects teams for "The Hunt for Red October" and "Dracula" directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Prior to Hollywood, Alan had a variety of music-related activities. His sonic journey began in Cleveland, Ohio, playing music in regional rock bands, "Tree Stumps", "Renaissance Faire", and "The Silk" on ABC records, which opened for national touring acts including "The Who", and "Cream". His original bands in Cleveland were Braino and Pi Corp. He was also a founding partner in Pi Keyboards and Audio, a pioneering synthesizer and pro audio shop. He provided keyboard synthesizer tour support for Joseph Zawinul of the fusion jazz band, "Weather Report", beginning in 1976. Continuing his varied sonic pursuits, Alan served as the Chief Audio Officer at Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores, was the sound designer for an innovative 48.6 multi-channel sound system that evolved into today's immersive multi-channel theatrical speaker array systems like Dolby Atmos. Firmly established as a producer, film composer, and sound designer, he continues to be a sonic visionary today creating patents for Natural Frequency Resonance Music wellness sound applications and cutting-edge immersive spatial music and audio designs for Virtual and Spatial Computing applications.