| Description: | Nick Peck is a composer/keyboardist/sound designer. He began his formal musical studies in piano at age 8, and became a computer fanatic at 13, at the dawn of the personal computer age. At 18, he bought his first portable tape recorder and began recording the world around him. He holds a Master's degree in Electronic Music (Mills College, 1997), as well as Bachelor's degrees in Psychology (UC Berkeley, 1987) and Electronic Music (SF State, 1992).
Nick divides his time equally between sound design for film and games, and a musical life of independent recording and performing. His jazz/funk quartet, Sycamore Park, performs around the Bay Area. He has composed, engineered, and/or performed on over a dozen albums, including Ten Ton Chicken's Just Like in the Old Country and De Cocksdorp, and Indian maestro Ali Akbar Khan's Grammy-nominated CD Passing on the Tradition. His CD's are known throughout the world in progressive rock and avant garde electronic circles, and includes Into the Epicenter, Edge of the Sky, Past Present Future, Progfest '94, and Starlight Tales with the group Episode, and Islands in the Stream, Liminality, Testament, Under the Big Tree, EndID and Positive Signal Flow as a solo artist.
Nick is currently serving as audio director at Activision in Foster City, California. Recent sound design projects include the feature films Adaptation, CQ, Being John Malkovich (which he also composed music for), and Vampire Hunter D, Nihilistic Software's game Vampire: The Masquerade and LucasArts Entertainment's games LEGO Star Wars, Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Episode III, Secret Weapons Over Normandy, Clone Wars and Indiana Jones and the Emporer's Tomb. Nick is a regular contributor to Electronic Musician magazine, and gives lectures on audio production techniques at industry conferences and schools. He is a member of the music faculty at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, and teaches courses on Pro Tools audio production there. |