Composer Greg Kuehn has partnered with business manager/exec. producer Jonnie Peckham to form Peligro Music & Sound Design, Los Angeles. Kuehn and Peckham come over from L.A. music/sound design shops DV8 and Decibel Architects, respectively.
The duo has already teamed on three assignments at Peligro: Kawasaki Vulcan Drifters Another Time and a three-spot Taylormade Golf Clubs campaign, both out of Bozell Worldwide, Costa Mesa, Calif.; and a package of Ugly Duckling car spots from dGWB, Irvine. The latter was helmed by Allen Martinez of Tate & Partners, Santa Monica. Stefan Wurnitzer of Scream, Los Angeles, directed Taylormade while Jason Harrington was the director on the Kawasaki :30. Now with bicoastal/international Propaganda Films, Harrington worked on Kawasaki while he was at Tony K., West Hollywood.
Kuehn serves as composer/ creative director for Peligro. His scoring credits at DV8 included a Nike campaign featuring Tiger Woods (I Am Lucky, Dear Dad, I Wont Forget and Swing) for Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore., and an adidas package starring L.A. Lakers wunderkind Kobe Bryant and the U.S. womens soccer team via Leagas Delaney, San Francisco.
Kuehns career began in Los Angeles early punk scene, when he left Cal State Long Beach, where he was studying classical piano, to join and tour with the band T.S.O.L. He spent several years as a recording and touring musician working with artists including The Church, Bob Dylan, and Ian Astbury of The Cult. Some of Kuehns other projects include the theme show music for The Extremists on ABC, as well as arranging and playing on the score for the cult-hit Repo Man.
Peligros resources include a 24-bit ProTools system and a Mackie Digital 8 Bus 24-bit mixing console. Peligro also plans to offer 5-to-1 Surround Sound mixing. Sales for the company are overseen by Peckham.
