COLE MASAITIS
Qualifications
Audio professional who is focused on story-telling and creating unique and emotional connections with audiences for
multimedia. Passionate about collaboration, with full proficiency for standard audio equipment, software, best practices,
and producing high quality audio.
Related Experience
Composer, Sound Designer, Audio Director, Freelance Los Angeles, CA,
2016 - Present
• Music, sound design, and session guitarist - Mother to Earth, You Are the Miracle, Bento Banana, Firefeeder, etc.
• Recording engineer and stage manager - Small Hands LP, James Monroe Museum Album, and North Music Group.
• Audio editor and music composer for University of Mary Washington podcast.
Composer, Orchestrator, Audio Engineer, PlayStation Scoring Project, San Mateo, CA
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• Composed and recorded hybrid orchestral music using Sony’s music production pipeline. Designed custom instruments
in Kontakt using personal field recordings as source for found-sound percussion.
• Planned recording session, coached live musicians, and collaborated with music producers during sessions, ensuring the
best possible performance. Music editing to present at Game Developers Conference Demo Derby.
Studio Technician, Audio Engineer, SFCM and UMW Music Dept., San Francisco, California
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• Pro Tools operator on Sony PlayStation and KDFC recording sessions, comped recorded tracks prior to sending to the
mixer, and built ProTools Sessions for small ensemble recordings.
• Maintenance of studios, troubleshooting and integration of audio equipment, managing computer systems, composing
rigs and trained students on how to use studio
Archivist, Librarian, Audio Editor Intern, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.,
2017 - 2018
• Dialogue editing, music editing, logging audio recordings, moving images..
Credits and Honors
Credits: My audio work includes "Guardian", "Bento Banana 3”, "You Are The Miracle", "Mother to Earth",
"Mushroom Myomancy", “Warp Soldier”, “Firefeeder”, “Flamesgrace”, “Terminal Hope”.
Honors: Awarded scholarship for 2020 GDC, “Mother to Earth” film qualified for an Emmy nomination, “Flamesgrace”
album nominated for a VGMO award, and awarded several grants to perform original music at adjudicated international
conferences.
Education
San Francisco Conservatory of Music,-
University of Mary Washington,-
• Graduate Degree in Music Technology and Applied
Composition
• Bachelor's in Music Composition and Production
Skills
Music and Audio: Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Ableton, Sibelius, Wwise, FMOD, Foley, VO, Post-Production
Other: Davinci Resolve, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, GitHub, Journalism, Time Management, Organization
