Barking Owl has added Baltimore-based musician Dan Deacon to its roster of composers. Within the realm of live performance, Deacon has premiered compositions at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and collaborated with innumerable artists and institutions, including Kronos Quartet, Sō Percussion, the L.A. Philharmonic, and Justin Peck with the New York City Ballet. Deacon has also toured internationally with popular recording artists, including Arcade Fire, Miley Cyrus, Future Islands, and The Flaming Lips. When performing solo, Deacon’s live shows are known for large-scale audience participation, frequently setting up his performance space on the floor level with the audience engaged in close proximity.
Deacon’s work in the classic-contemporary scene led him into the world of film and television. Deacon created original music for Francis Ford Coppola’s horror feature film Twixt, starring Val Kilmer. His work composing for documentary films All Light, Everywhere (2021, Sundance Film Festival) and Ascension (2021, Tribeca Film Festival) garnered him nominations for Outstanding Original Score at the Cinema Eye Honors in 2022, with Deacon taking home the prize for Ascension. Deacon has also provided the musical score for the sports drama Hustle starring Adam Sandler, currently streaming on Netflix.
SCHROM x Yacht Club and Be Electric Studios Launch Electric XR for Virtual Production
SCHROM x Yacht Club, a full-service live-action, tabletop, and postproduction company, has teamed with Be Electric Studios, a soundstage, equipment rental, and virtual production company, to launch Electric XR, a virtual production collective.
Industry veteran Thomas Rossano will lead the new venture, which provides advanced virtual production solutions across multiple facilities. He brings over 25 years of experience in live-action, tabletop, postproduction and talent curation to enhance Electric XR’s offerings as a resource for brands and agencies, as well as other production companies in need of virtual production solutions. Additionally Rossano continues to serve as EP at XR New York (XR-NY), a role he’s held since December 2022. SCHROM x Yacht Club originally established XR-NY to help provide XR services for third-party rentals. While XR-NY will continue to function independently for SCHROM X Yacht Club, it now operates under the Electric XR umbrella.
Rossano’s expertise spans producing live-action commercials, branded content, interactive and experiential content. In addition to leading Electric XR, he holds responsibilities at SCHROM x Yacht Club which include driving business development, collaborating with sales reps and expanding the company’s creative talent network. Rossano’s career includes serving as an exec producer at Hungry Man for about 11 years, right from that company’s inception. He then went on to become a partner at Station Film where he also had a lengthy tenure. Later he was a partner at PRISM. Then after the pandemic hit, he became a freelance EP for nearly two years, looking into opportunities in virtual production, which led him to XR NY and now Electric XR. Over the years, he has produced high-profile... Read More