Bio: Justin James Short

Pleasure to E-Meet you,

While we can close our eyes we can not close our ears. Sound design is physically the most humanistic trait for curating a listener's perceived environment. Diegetic sounds that can make us feel what our eyes don’t see, lush-omniscient melodies that prognosticate the story, and user interaction sounds that help separate ourselves from our avatar. 

I would love to be your next Sound Designer and collaboratively design the best artisanal and emotive-listening experience. I’m absolutely excited for the opportunity to combine my passion for technology, recording techniques, and music in any environment that fosters creativity tempered with discipline. 

Projects I’ve worked on as a Music Composer / Sound Designer:

•Wwise’s game: “Cube”

•Zenefits’ HR–Online Advertisement

•T-Pickled-“A Bird Story”–Interactive music

•The Office-S6 E10 “The Murder”–Parody music

•The Barnes Firm Injury Attorneys–Jingle

•XBox “Battlefield I”–Trailer Remix

•“Words Not Spoken”–Film Composer. 

Live Sound Mix Engineer

My freelance experience working in the music industry has given me the ability to be agile in high pressure environments with tight deadlines.

•Jimmy Webb

•Mike Posner

•Randy Poe

•John Platt

•Ryan Press

•Jerry Fuller

•Michelle Branch

•Randy Nueman

•Lionel Ritchie

•David Foster

•Justin Parker

•Peitor Pereira.  

•The International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (I.S.S.R.E.)

Education

I have a B.A. in Musicology with a minor in Music Industry from the University of California Los Angeles; and, trained in UCLA’s Melnitz studio becoming fluent in tracking, mixing and mastering in Pro Tools, Ableton, Logic Pro, studio signal flow, and synchronizing audio to picture.

Where I started:

Originally from Campbell, CA. I began playing guitar at the age of 13. In high school I joined the school Jazz band, and in my senior year joined the big band "De Ja Vu" directed by Mr. David Ladd Anderson (Mr. A). Following my high school graduation, I went to tour Switzerland and France with "De Ja Vu" and later releasing “De Ja Vu European Tour.” My personal mentors over the years:

Clifford Samoranos—Jazz guitarist

Gayle Greenbook—Musical Theater & Voice Teacher

David Ladd Anderson—Big Band Director