Carlos "Storm" Martinez

Carlos "Storm" Martinez is a Grammy Award winning audio engineer and award-winning sound editor/designer with 15 years of experience in the music industry and over 5 years in film. His music resume includes artists such as Justin Timberlake, Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild, Patti LaBelle and others. Starting out as an intern and working his way up the ranks at the premier recording studios in Philadelphia. He has recorded and mixed just about every style of music imaginable.

“I went from watching the grammy’s hoping my favorite group would win to watching them hoping my records would win—it’s been a great journey.

Always interested in sonics and “creating noise” more than record biz image and schmoozing led to a career change in 2004.

“ moving out of the music biz and into audio post just seemed to happen accidentally so I just went with the flow”

The techniques are essentially the same—but now I get to create whole worlds

Vita Tenga

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Vita Tanga is a French composer and musician, and is co-founder of the band liquids. Vita has performed and recorded on 4 continents, in legendary venues from Radio City Music Hall in New York to the Louvre in Paris, his hometown. Tanga is a highly sought after free-lance multi-instrumentalist in the World/Urban music-industry (myspace.com/vitaaguitar) and a highly accomplished composer. He has studied world music across the globe, including - Indian music and sitar in Vanarasi, East Asian music in Thailand and Vietnam, traditional Arabian music and Rai in Morocco, Mauritani and Algeria, African music in Senegal, Mali and the Ivory Coast, Flamenco and Latin music in Spain, Gypsy music in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, French musette, Country, Blues, Folk and Bluegrass in the Southern United States, and Irish Music in the United Kingdom. The breadth of his musical knowledge and artistic abilities are unmatched.

Lisa Liu

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The daughter of celebrated violinist and opera singer, Li-Ping Hsieh, Lisa Liu’s musical aspirations truly lie in her roots. At the age of 9 she took up the violin and went on to follow in her mother’s footsteps when she was accepted into the prestigious Juilliard pre-college music program, where she remained throughout her education, ultimately earning her bachelor’s and master’s degree in violin performance. During her tenure at Juilliard, Lisa became a very proficient pianist, but violin was always her passion. She feels extremely fortunate to have studied under legendary musicians, Dorothy DeLay and Julie Lyonn Lieberman, whom she credits with inspiring her to improvise and explore a variety of alternative musical styles. An accomplished arranger and composer as well as musician, Lisa’s first opportunity to “test her musical mettle” came while she was still in school when she worked on an album project for The Pope that featured Britney Spears, Aerosmith, Ice-T, R. Kelly and Justin Timberlake, among other A-list entertainers. Since then she has performed from coast to coast to audiences of up to 75,000+ (with the Gorillaz at the Coachella music festival) and lent her talents to movies, television, albums and concerts with celebrity artists from every genre. Throughout her career, Lisa’s secret desire has always been to break free of the traditional “classical musician mold” and work and perform with hip-hop artists to create a modern musical fusion. Before she even left the conservatory she collaborated on a project with Nico Muhly who scored the soundtrack for "The Reader", and now Lisa is traveling between LA and NYC to pursue her dream! Currently Lisa has joined forces with Sly Stone MD and gifted producer/composer, Cori Jacobs. Their all original hip-hop cross over album will feature Lisa’s violin virtuosity along with a plethora of guest rappers and hip hop artists, including Booty Brown from the Pharcyde, and Judith Hill, from the Michael Jackson tour. The album is expected to be completed by fall, 2010.

Jerome Loston

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Jerome Loston is a committed and experienced artist whose work defies easy categorization. He has worked on both sides of the camera and within several artistic genres. Before Jerome became a filmmaker, he sought to forge his own relationship with words as a means of making and interpreting culture, graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with degrees in English Literature and African-American studies. He became a filmmaker when he began to see that although words were a critical avenue of communication across barriers of color, gender, and political and religious affiliation, he wanted to work in a medium with a broader reach. Jerome sees film is an exquisite blend of storytelling, visual seduction and social and political practice. The recipient of several awards, including the University of California Film Development Fellowship, the Mcnair Scholarship, and NYU’s Peter D. Gould Scholarship, Jerome has documentary and narrative films to his credit. He is currently in preproduction for his first feature film.