EPK - Wolf Wein

Wolfgang Wein
Composer • Arranger
[email protected]
707-704-6901
wolftrackaudio.com
Introducing Myself
Composer
Sound Designer
Producer
Multi Instrumentalist
Owner of Wolf Track Audio, my Composing Studio and
Production hub
Austrian, currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area
Objective
Create original music for games and movies.
Work with an awesome team to contribute to
the creative vision of the directors, designers
and producers.
Some of the styles I composed
in recent projects
• Orchestral themes, underscoring
• Blues
• Hybrid scoring
• Funk
• Jazz
• Surf Rock
• Trailer Music
• Gypsy Jazz
• Country
• Latin Big Band
• Pop & Rock
• World Music Peruvian, Egyptian
• Raymond Scott style Cartoon Jazz
• Bluegrass Rock’n Roll
Selected Credits as composer of original music
additional responsibilities marked as follows: S = sound design V = voice over production casting, directing, editing A = Audio Lead
Pixar Planes racing Leapfrog/Disney-Pixar 2013 S
Rio Racing
Leapfrog 2013 S
Transformers Rescue Bots
2013 Leapfrog/Hasbro S
MyWeb
2011-2012 MyWeb LLC - Facebook app S
Mr. Pencil - Lost Colors of Doodleburg
2012 Leapfrog
Kat’s Math-errific Magic Show 2012 Leapfrog
Letterfactory
2011 Leapfrog
Idonia
online game 2011 DSonic/Cardboard Box Games
Spongebob Kart Racing
2010 Leapfrog/Nickelodeon Dora The Explorer 10th Anniversary 2010 Leapfrog/Nickelodeon S
Cars, Little Einsteins, Handy Manny, My Friends Tigger & Pooh, Disney Princesses, Mickey Mouse Club House
Leapfrog/Disney Pixar 2009 S
WALL_E 2008 Leapfrog/Disney-Pixar S,V,A
Gold's Gym Cardio Workout 2008 10 Rock tracks Somatone/ publisher: Ubisoft The Little Engine That Could 2008 Leapfrog/Penguin S,V,A
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 2008 Leapfrog/Simon&Schuster S,V,A
Click Clack Moo 2008 Leapfrog/Simon&Schuster S,V,A
Land & Sea Animals 2008 Leapfrog/National Geographic S,A
America’s Got Talent 2008 underscore tracks and 30+ arrangements Somatone/Fox TV
Ratatouille 2007 Leapfrog/Disney-Pixar S,V,A
Ratatouille 2007 Leapfrog/Disney-Pixar S,V,A
Cars Supercharged
2007 Leapfrog/Disney-Pixar S,V,A
SonicX 2006 Leapfrog/4KidsEntertainment V
Little Amadeus 2006 Leapfrog/Stadlbauer S,V,A
NASCAR 2005 Leapfrog/NASCAR V
Various other roles
• Mixing and Mastering Engineer: Victoria Theodore (keyboards with Stevie Wonder)
mixing Grateful EP 2012
• Producer, Mixing Engineer: OoN - The Bass-Bassoon Duo of Paul Hanson and Ariane Cap;
2012-2013
• Audio Lead: German localizations of 24 Leapfrog titles 2003 – 2007 • Contributing sound designer: Dress Shop Hop (Somatone/Oberon Games) 2007
• Mixing engineer, additional recordings:
Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore (2007/ 2008 Somatone)
• Sound Designer: Corn Pops online game 2007 (Kellogs/Somatone)
• Voice Director: Cars Leapster 2005 – additional voice directing (Leapfrog/Disney-Pixar)
• Arranger: String arrangements for Jae-E
• Mixing, arranging, transcribing and mastering for various Bay Area artists
Education
Attended the following schools (Jazz and Popular Music, electric bass, Upright Classical and Jazz Bass)
• Conservatory of Innsbruck, Austria
• Bass Institute Munich Munich/Germany
• Academy of Music Vienna (Austria)
• University of Miami (scholarship recipient of UM and Austrian government)
• University of South Florida (Teaching Assistant with full scholarship)
Master’s of Music 2001 from University of South Florida
Additional education:
Orchestration Master class with Stephen Scott Smalley (April 2003)
Composition Master class with Jack Smalley (May 2004)
GDC San Francisco Audio Track 2005
Composition and Orchestration Master classes with Mike Verta (2013)
Memberships and Awards
• Outstanding Product and iParenting Media Awards for Leapster WALL-E: 2008
• Outstanding Product and iParenting Media Awards for Leapster Ratatouille which was the
top selling Leapfrog title for 2007
• Hot Media Award and iParenting Media Awards for Leapster Cars, Supercharged: 2007
• Various Parents' Choice Awards:
Click, Clack, Moo. WALL-E Leapster, NASCAR Leapster, Ratatouille Leapster
• Member: ASCAP
• Recognized as an Artist of Extraordinary Abilities in
the Musical Field by the American Government (2000);
Dear Wolf Wein,
I wanted to take a moment and thank you for the work you have done for our company. The
launch and continued success of our German product line hinged on your ability to take a bad
situation and turn it around. Thank you for your time and patience.
Letter of Recommendation
LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc.
I was amazed at the way you were able to come up to speed, learning our tools and procedures,
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Director of Audio
Leapfrog
TEL 510.420.5000
FAX 510.20.5001
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launch and continued success of our German product line hinged on your ability to take a bad
situation and turn it around. Thank you for your time and patience.
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Tools
My DAW of choice is Logic Pro. I have also worked with Pro Tools,
Digital Performer and Reaper. My main orchestral weapon is Vienna Symphonic
Library’s Symphonic Cube with their amazing MIR convolution engine. I do
consulting on effective studio setup with this software package.
My project studio runs several networked Macs, several tera bites of samples and
sound effects libraries, some sweet recording gear: Neumann, AKG and Schoeps
microphones, Universal Audio preamps and compressors, Sound Devices mobile
recorders, innumerable plug ins (FabFilter, Izotope, Sony Oxford, Melodyne,
Waves, Vienna Suite...), excellent audio interfaces and SPL analog summing.
Being an active musician I play bass (electric, fretless and upright), guitar,
Ukulele and am decent on cello and keyboards. Many of the music tracks I have
composed for games are sample based. Whenever possible (budgets, deadlines...)
I enhance these sample based productions with live instruments, which I record in
my studio.
Contact
www.wolftrackaudio.com
Wolf Wein 707-704-6901
[email protected]