Paul Oehlers, Composer | Washington, D.C., USA

Paul A. Oehlers is most recognized for his "extraordinarily evocative" film scores. (Variety) Films incorporating his music have screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, the Indiefest Film Festival of Chicago, and the Hamptons International Film Festival, where the film Paul scored, Most High , captured the Golden Starfish, the largest independent film award in the United States.    The film has gone on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta International Film Festival and the Prism Award for Outstanding DVD of the Year.

Paul was named the Margaret Lee Crofts Fellow by the MacDowell Colony for the year 2006.   He is currently Assistant Professor and director of the Audio Technology program at American University in Washington, DC.

"I like the flexibility of VibeStudio Designer.  As someone who composes electro-acoustic concert music and film scores, I look for any tool I can get my hands on that are easy to use so I can generate something quickly if necessary, but also with as much depth and control as possible.  VibeStudio Designer is a program that has immediately changed the way I think about writing.

I think the greatest testament to how addictive and even fun the program is to use comes from the day I installed the program on my computer.  One of my students came to my house to try after working in the school's studio for six hours.  As soon as he drew his first path, he was hooked.  After playing with it for hours, I still couldn't pry him away from it."

Paul used VibeStudio Designer in his composition for marimba and multichannel electronics, Protolith, premiered by Nobue Matsuoka at ICAD 2010.  He is planning on releasing a stereo version on a CD of his works in the next year.

Paul is excited to try VibeStudio Designer on several upcoming film projects including scenes from a feature length movie, Arkansas Traveler, featuring Garret Dillahunt, star of the new Fox television show Raising Hope and such films as No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Last House on the Left.

Paul's information can be found here: http://www.pauloehlers.com