Ken Chastain

Kenneth Lee Chastain, born on October 15, 1964 in Hanover, New Hampshire is a musician, engineer, and producer currently living Minneapolis, MN. He is featured on percussion on Ziggy Marley's Love is my Religion album and many other well known artists' work. Not only is Ken an accomplished musician he also composes, produces, engineers, and mixes for TV and Film projects, most notably the movie Sweet Land.

History

Chastain was born in New Hampshire, and lived in France and Morocco with his Peace Corps parents before moving to Minnesota. He played Suzuki cello and was a soloist in the Metropolitan Boys Choir in the Twin Cities. He went on to the University of Minnesota and the Berklee College of Music in Boston to study music, audio engineering and film scoring.

He also plays bass, guitar, keyboards, trumpet, harmonica, Chapman Stick, Theremin, and percussion. [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_multi=SP|&p_product=SP&p_theme=realcities2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_site=twincities&s_trackval=SP&p_text_search-0=ken%20AND%20Chastain&s_dispstring=ken%20Chastain%20AND%20date(all)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no Pioneer Press: Search Results ] ]

Pixel Farm

As head of Audio Post-Production at Pixel Farm Minneapolis, and chief engineer and composer for Pixel Farm Music, Ken Chastain scores music, sound designs, and mixes award winning television commercials and films. Recent award winning commercials include: Garmin's Super Bowl XLII offering “Napoleon” and United Airlines "Dragon" Commercials for: Porsche / Goodyear / Purina / Coca-Cola / Garmin / Best Buy / Target / BMW / United Airlines

Films Credits: Sweet Land (WINNER Best First Feature Spirit Award for Independent Film / Older Than America (Premiered at SXSW and the Walker Art Center “Women of Vision” / Funkytown / Pathfinder / Urban Explorers / Tromeo and Juliet / Detective Fiction / Hotel Hidajet

In the music world Ken can be heard playing on records from Switchfoot and Mike Doughty to Grammy Award winning Ziggy Marley. Music Credits: Ziggy Marley / Dan Wilson / Mandy Moore / M Doughty / Clay Aiken / Andrew W K / Pink / Backstreet Boys / Semisonic / Glen Phillips / Switchfoot

Appearances: Tonight Show NBC / Larry Sanders HBO / SXSW / Sundance Film Festival

Misc: NBA theme songs for the Detroit pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers Weisman Art Museum installation “Voyager”

Discography

References

External links

*http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HNN/is_6_17/ai_88249641
* [http://www.pixelfarm.com Pixel Farm]
* [http://www.pixelfarmmusic.com Pixel Farm Music]
*http://www.terramara.com/history/index.html
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0153947/