Brendan Byrnes is a composer, mix engineer, sound designer, and sound editor based in Los Angeles. His vivid productions, mixes, and 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 (That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles) and documentaries (Lost LA Season 2).  Byrnes is also an accomplished microtonal guitarist with several microtonal/xenharmonic albums on Spectropol Records and Split-Note Records. For more than a decade, Byrnes has been a prolific and widely recognized voice in microtonal guitar and xenharmonic music, earning international coverage and critical acclaim for his distinctive approach to alternative tuning. Guitar World praised his approach, writing, “That might sound challenging to the untrained ear, but Byrnes allays any fears with his supreme sense of melody, which ensures those none-more-outside notes always find their way back home.”

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 at Sirius XM, leading production and post-production on award-winning 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.