Curriculum Vitae: Karl Mohr

Introduction

Background:

Main titles: composer, producer, sound designer, project coordinator.

Strengths: multi-genre corporate composition, LogicAudio, ProTools, database control.

Recent Coup: moving composing studio to Huntsville, Ontario.

Contact Info

mailing address: 509 ST CLAIR AVE W, P.O. BOX 73616 / TORONTO, ON / M6C 1A1 / CANADA
business site: Multibeat Music    e-mail: gi (AT) multibeat (DOT) com

Sections

01. Biography
02. Recent sound editing work
03. Music composed for media and stage
04. Radio broadcasts and live appearances
05. Independent music releases
06. Label music releases
07. Song remixes
08. Recording contributions
09. Education
10. Awards

Biography

Karl Mohr works as a freelance composer and sound designer, composing the soundtracks for many film, video, multimedia and dramatic productions. He works extensively with digital recording (Digidesign ProTools, Emagic Logic Audio) and MIDI studio design. Mohr's progressive use of samplers and workstations has had a significant impact on his own music, his production and remix of the music of others, and breathes a fluid, organic quality into his sound effects tracks for film. His innovative music marks him as a unique composer; his sound design credits are impressive.

His music and songs, released in the form of 29 cassettes and eight CDs over the last fifteen years, have been given radio airplay on the CBC, ORF and around the world. He has studied composition with many noteworthy composers: David Keane, Kristi Allik, John Burge, Clifford Crawley and Norman Sherman. He has studied piano performance with Hugh Smith, Brenda Geden, Rosemarie Peart-Suarez and Michel Szczesniak.

Lately, Karl Mohr has been working in post-production as a sound editor. He has had the opportunity to work with sound design pioneers Peter Thillaye, Bruno Degazio, Sue Conley, Ed Douglas, Alan Geldart and Yuri Gorbachow on astounding IMAX films. His main points of focus have been the creative use of digital samplers in building specific sound effects and atmospheres, and the coordination of IMAX sync tracks.

Due to a recent move to the rural community of Huntsville, Ontario, Mohr is now recording music and designing web sites for a living.

Biography | Sections

Recent sound editing work

Sound editing work from: 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Jan 2003
Sound Designer: Produced Hawksley Workman drum sampling CD.

Jan 2003
Sound Editor: Archiving and databasing Hawksley Workman tape masters to digital format.

Apr 2002
Sound Editor: Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees IMAX

Nov 2001
Sound Editor: Tom Stone CBC television series

Aug 2001
Sound Designer: Lutz Austria internet quiz (agency: Worx New Media Life)

Apr 2001
Sound Editor: Bears IMAX

Feb 2001
Assistant ADR Editor: Ignition TV Series GFT/Redwood/Ignition Films

Aug 2000
Sound Editor: Cyberworld IMAX 3D

Jul 2000
Sound Editor: Up Up and Away IMAX (Demo)

Jan 2000
Sound Editor: Volcanoes IMAX (Demo)

Jun 1999
Sound Editor: Galapagos IMAX 3D

Jan 1999
Sound Editor: Cyberworld IMAX 3D (Wireframe Films Demo)

Nov 1998
Assistant Sound Editor: Gold Fever IMAX
Assistant Sound Editor: Wolves IMAX
Assistant Film Editor: Omnimax Dome IMAX 3D Film Test

Oct 1998
Assistant ADR Editor: Nightworld Series (Alliance/Atlantis)

Apr 1998
Sound Editor: Wildfire: Feel the Heat IMAX

Jan 1998
Assistant Sound Editor: Mark Twain's America IMAX 3D
Sound Effects Editor/Composer: Quaker State TV Ad (Flashcut)

Sep 1997
Assistant Sound Editor: Nutcracker IMAX

Aug 1997
Assistant Sound Editor: Mark Twain, Wildfire, Rodeo IMAX Demos

Jul 1997
Sound Effects Editor/Composer: My Canada (Immersion Studios)

Jun 1997
Sound Effects Editor: Matin dans un fôret des pins (Barracuda Films)

May 1997
Audio Conform: Staged (Nemesis Productions, City-TV, A&E)

Oct 1996
Audio Coordinator/Assistant Sound Editor: Mission to Mir IMAX

Aug 1996
Assistant Sound Effects Editor: Mark Twain, House Guests IMAX Demos

Jul 1996
Studio Engineer: Oz Productions, Toronto

Jun 1996
Sound Design: Lighthouse CD-ROM (Face to Face)

Apr 1996
Sound Design: MyCity CD-ROM (I Choose Me)

Mar 1996
Assistant Sound Effects Editor: Cosmic City IMAX

Feb 1996
Assistant to ADR Editor: Kids in the Hall - Brain Candy (Alliance)

Jan 1996
Studio Assistant/Project Promoter: Degazio Sound Design, Toronto

Jul 1995
Engineer/In-House Composer: Studio Belle Image, Laval, Québec

May 1995
Digital Audio Editor: Silent Sound Studio, Montréal, Québec

Recent sound editing work | Sections

Music composed for film, video, theatre and multimedia

Film, video, theatre and multimedia compositions from:
2002 - 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 and earlier

Oct 2002
Composed music for A1 Partner Highlight 2002 corporate event video (Wild Thing Productions).

Oct 2002
Composed music for A1 Akademie corporate video (Wild Thing Productions).

Sep 2002
Composed music for Gulet Travel Austria presentation video featuring Microman from …3 radio (Wild Thing Productions).

Aug 2002
Composed music for Niederösterreich Preis für Kultur und Wissenschaft presentation video (Wild Thing Productions).

Jun 2002
Composed music, sound effects and Flash programming for Caritas Dioezese Linz Waermestube Stadtpiloten website for Caritas Oberoesterreich. (Collaboration with Patricia Futterer.)

Jun 2002
Composed music and sound design for Pro-Advertising TaxiLight multimedia video (Wild Thing Productions).

Jun 2001
Composed music for Telering Austria promotional banner ad, pitched by Worx New Media Life.

Jun 2001
Composed music, sound effects editing for Bene Austria internet game, pitched by Diamond Dogs.

Dec 2000
Composed Christmas music for KPNQwest Austria Weihnachtskalender Flash application (follow the Portfolio through to the calendar), sub-contracted by WORX New Media Life.

Jan 1998
Composed original soundtrack for Standard Deviation, a feature film by Sam K. Lee.

Jul 1997
Composed original soundtrack material for Matin dans un fôret des pins, a two-hour documentary film about Latvian culture by Mara Ravins and Janis Kalejs, featured in international festivals.

Feb 1996
Composed main title for The Blue Hermaphrodite, a television series exploring sex, sexuality and gender in pop culture (six thirty-minute episodes).

Nov 1995
Composed original music for Mute, an independent feature film by Sam K. Lee.

Apr 1994
Composed two 45 second interludes for Longshots, a documentary produced by Maximage and aired on CBC Newsworld.

Mar 1994
Composed original music and edited audio for Speaking in Tongues, a play by Mike Thibault presented by La Bouche Theatre Company.

Feb 1994
Produced/engineered music for The Onionskin, a dramatic production featured in Direct From Kingston, a festival of independent theatre.

Jan 1994
Composed soundtrack for Chasing the Sun, a film charting the success of the Queen's Solar Car 1993 and geared towards the promotion of women in engineering.

Nov 1993
Composed soundtrack for Hamlet, a dramatic production presented by Queen's Drama Department.

Aug 1993
Sound design for The Crackwalker, a professional dramatic production staged at The Grand Theatre, Kingston.

Apr 1993
Composed soundtrack for Writing on the Wall, a student film about graffiti culture.

Feb 1993
Musical segments from Foment (see August 1992) featured in Savage/Love a dramatic production written by Joseph Chaikin/Sam Shepard and directed by Kevin Fraser.
Composed soundtrack segment for Purple Jesus, a Queen's University-funded production promoting alcohol awareness among first-year students.

Dec 1992
Composed soundtrack for and directed Halloween, a student video co-produced with Tom Costain dealing with campus hedonism.

Aug 1992
Composed soundtrack for Foment, the world premier of a play by James Purdy, presented by Threshold theatre at the Baby Grand Theatre, Kingston and at the Annex Theatre, Toronto.

Mar 1992
Composed soundtrack for Our Back Yard, a film about Kingston's garbage crisis.

Feb 1992
Threshold theatre restaged Beautiful Losers at the Theatre Centre, Toronto (see August 1991) using previous soundtrack.

Dec 1991
Composed soundtrack for Dreams and Reminiscence, an experimental video.
Co-filmmaker and soundtrack composer for Which Part Of No Do You Not Understand? a student video addressing the problem of campus date rape.

Aug 1991
Composed soundtrack for dramatic production of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, presented by Threshold theatre, Kingston.

Apr 1991
Composed soundtrack for Holding the Pieces, a dramatic production presented by Threshold theatre.

Feb 1991
Composed soundtrack for Rites of Passage, a controversial student video examining Queen's University's orientation practices.

Nov 1989
Composed soundtrack for Tip of the Iceberg, a student video about family violence.

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Radio broadcast of major works and live appearances

June 2002
Took part in a radio interview on generative music with Patricia Futterer (Cyborg Detector) and Adrian Ward (Auto-Shop) hosted by Thomas Edlinger & Fritz Ostermeier, "im Sumpf" FM4 (ORF) Vienna, Austria. Generative pieces Hello Dolly and Excursion into the Jungle of Recursion were broadcast.

May 2001
Performed onstage with Konsorten at Flex nightclub, Vienna, Austria for the launch of their Disko23 album.

Dec 1994
Interview and broadcast of electroacoustic adaptation of The Four Seasons on Brave New Waves, on the national CBC-STEREO network. (Entire 74 minute work)

Radio broadcast of major works | Sections

Independent music releases

Independent music releases from: 2002 - 1996 | 1995 - 92 | 1991 and earlier

2002
Magic Christmas (compact disc release)

2000
The End of the Line (compact disc release), Opaque (collaboration with Patricia Futterer and Erich Berger)

1998
Standard Deviation soundtrack, Be Careful What You Wish For

1997
The Heck (compact disc release), The Fall Seeds

1996
Blackburst Generator

1995
France

1994
Fibre Optic Rockets, The Four Seasons, The Thrill of Highway Eleven, Exclusively Electronic Instrumental

1993
The Sky is on Fire, Save Our Souls, Famously Famished, Ripcore

1992
Confusion Man, Magnifying Glass, Rage, Time, Empty Room Residence (collaboration with Robin Buckley), Foment Soundtrack

1991
Mask Sessions, Set Your Sequencer for Stun, Fear of Small Dogs

1990
The Doomhole Audiology, Wince Logic

1989
You Are What You Eat, Pyrotechnics

1988
Wince

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Label music releases

2002
The Four Seasons 2117 full length CD released on Interdimensional Industries, Calgary, Canada

2001
Wassernixe released on Sony Austria compilation Vienna Vibrations: the Second Gathering (vinyl and double CD)

1996
Excursion Into the Jungle of Recursion on disc of chaos compositions released by Soundprints Specialized Music On Disc (1000 units)

1990
Neuralgia/Mindmovie cassette single released by Bombshelter Productions (130 units)

Label music releases | Sections

Song remixes

2008
Releveler "Your Flavour (Rock Mix)"
Releveler "Your Flavour (Salivus Maximus Mix)"
Releveler "Untouched (Chill House Mix)"

2002
PIMP-T "Party Slam"
Hermit "Urban Myth"
Aphids "Happy Birthday Dad"

2001
Konsorten "Ja Natuerlich"
Michael Ernst - "Magic"
Hawksley Workman "Striptease" (four remixes)

2000
Rachel Smith "The Waves"

1999
Hawksley Workman "Maniacs" (one remix)
Nik Beeson "Capital Rules Democracy"

1995
Charles C "Sweat"

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Recording contributions

2007
Cryptomnesia: Masters of Conspiracy

2003
Hawksley Workman: Curtain Calls for Flaming Flowers (LIVE CD) (producer)

2002
Buddhist Basics CDROM: Gesellschaft zur Foerderung Buddhistischer Werte GmbH (english voiceover)

2000
Scott McLoughlin: Magnolias
Rachel Thomas: The Clearing
Tegan and Sara: This Business of Art

1999
John Southworth: Sedona Arizona
Hawksley Workman: For Him and the Girls
Emmanuel Lopez: Rain of Angels

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Education

Master of Sound Recording
Qualifying Year McGill University, Montréal
Graduated 1995.

Bachelor of Music
Queen's University, Kingston
Graduated 1994.

Education | Sections

Awards

2007
Moscow Film Festival: "Perspectives" Award
Best Film: Monotonija

2005
Golden Reel Awards: Other Categories
Sound Editing in a Special Venue Film: NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience

2004
Giant Screen Theatre Association Film Achievement Awards
Best Sound 2004, Peter Thillaye [and team], sound designer, NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience

1997
CCTA, Ontario Cable Television Producer's Society
The Blue Hermaphrodite won award for excellence in Arts and Culture programming.

1996
CCTA, Regional
The Blue Hermaphrodite won award for best program promotion.

1994
Istvan Award, Queen's University
Awarded to composers for excellence in electroacoustic composition.

1992
Canadian Student Showcase, Jean Oser Award for excellence in documentary filmmaking
With Chris Grismer, Which Part Of No Do You Not Understand?

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