Brendan Byrnes is a composer, mix engineer, and sound designer based in Los Angeles, CA. His vivid productions and lush, organic compositions have been featured in films, television, and podcasts. In addition to mixing music for independent artists and film composers, he has mixed Emmy winning scores and documentaries (That Far Corner:Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles and Lost LA Season 2). Byrnes is also an accomplished microtonal guitarist with several microtonal/xenharmonic albums on Spectropol Records and Split-Note Records.
Clients include Vice, Google, Maiyet, KCET, Sage Lewis Music (Operator Film Score and Soundtrack), Electronic Countermeasures, Adam Schoenberg, and Katy Jarzebowski. He is currently a Supervising Audio Engineer for Sirius XM/Stitcher, working on shows such as LeVar Burton Reads, Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend, Sound Detectives, and The Mel Robbins Podcast. He has a BFA in Contemporary Writing and Production from the Berklee College of Music and an MFA in Composition from The California Institute of the Arts.
In addition to his own work mentioned above, his works for string ensemble and orchestra have been performed internationally. His String Quartet “Aman” was premiered in 5 cities in Nicaragua including Managua’s National Concert Hall and a composition for full orchestra titled “Chroma” was premiered by the San Francisco Sinfonietta alongside Paul McCartney’s “Oratorio” in San Francisco, California (2011). A recent collaborative composition with virtuoso violinist and composer Mark Menzies titled “Swongering Butterfly” was premiered for “Ensemble Sospeso: The Machine Breathes” at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC.