Award-winning composer John Swihart has scored “Disaster Relief” via Visual Music for the Salvation Army. Led by Creative Group Head Art Director Todd McArtor, Creative Group Head Copywriter Danny Bryan and producer Bridget Fontenot for The Richards Group, the :30 and long form versions document the emotionally moving story of how The Salvation Army’s Disaster Services system helped the people of Joplin Missouri survive the devastating 2011 tornado.
“It was like a bomb went off,” stated one Joplin resident. “It cut a path one half mile wide and thirteen miles long,” stated Joplin’s mayor. The Salvation Army’s trucks arrived with water, food and nurses with medical assistance and helped people find shelter. “We go because we want to be there. We go because we want to help people,” stated one Disaster Services worker.
John Swihart’s distinctive style can be heard in over 40 films, including Youth In Revolt, New In Town, Employee Of The Month, The Great New Wonderful and Napoleon Dynamite. He began his musical training at the age of four studying piano; by eight, he added the saxophone, followed by guitar studies at Indiana University — while still in high school. He then continued his formal musical training of composition, production and engineering at Boston’s prestigious’ Berklee College of Music.
About Visual Music
Visual Music is a boutique music house encompassing an extraordinary cache of star composers, new emerging artists, award winning composers, songwriters and sound designers.
Visual Music‘s mission is to deliver inspired creative innovation by exploring diverse musical possibilities within it’s roster which includes John Swihart (Napoleon Dynamite, Youth in Revolt), Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica), Transcenders(Gossip Girl), Academy Award® nominated sound designer Herwig Maurer (Apocalypto) plus award winning staff composers and songwriters and indie music resource Tunetree.com. For more info on Visual Music please visit www.visualmusicartists.com.
