You can find many threads in Darren’s life. He started composing and recording music for student and independent films in his teenage years by any means available, often using tape decks, video cameras, second hand instruments, whatever he could get his hands on. Darren also makes videos, discovering the craft in high school, specifically editing.

Follow the music thread to today, Darren composes and records music in his home studio in Los Angeles for an array of projects. He has created original music for television, short films, commercials, art exhibitions and for videos across platforms for brands such as Jaguar, JetBlue, Teach for America and PayPal. He also has music from his project, Calm Transmissions, featured in the Tripp Meditation app.

Darren learned bass at age 13, then guitar, drums and keys, playing music in his friends basements around Metro-Detroit where he was raised. He moved to Brooklyn in 2005 and made records and toured extensively with his bands Mothxr, Rathborne and the World Without Magic. Darren’s current project is Calm Transmissions, an ambient music and visual collective.

Darren re-discovering his passion for video creation in New York with an internship at Harbor Picture Company. he has worked for The Studio (the in-house PepsiCo content studio) as Lead Editor and most recently as Senior Editor at Casual Films, Los Angeles. The love of editing has evolved, and now includes sound design and audio mixing, as well as motion graphics