Darren has created music and sound for short films, art exhibits, commercials and short documentaries, clients including Jaguar, JetBlue and Teach for America. He also releases and performs music, currently with his project Calm Transmissions, which has several releases and is featured on the Tripp Meditation App. 

Music is one strand of Darren’s career, the other is video. Darren has led projects and teams as Lead Editor at PepsiCo’s The Studio, and as Senior Editor at Casual Films creating videos for brands such as Hilton, Autodesk, Thrive Academy and Docusign.

These parallel paths began early. Darren 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. He also started making videos not long after, discovering the craft in high school and winning several regional and national student awards.

Following the music thread, today Darren composes and records music in his home studio in Los Angeles for an array of projects.

How it started: Darren learned bass at age 13, then guitar, drums and keys, playing music in his friends basements around Metro-Detroit. 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, Calm Transmissions, is an ambient music and visual collective.

Darren re-discovering his passion for video creation in New York with an internship at Harbor Picture Company. After working as an Assistant Editor for several TV shows, as well as a few HBO Docs about Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Presley, he moved into the commercial world as Lead Editor at Pepsi’s in-house content studio, 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.