GARY MEISTER

MUSIC

Gary Meister fell in love with gamelan when he spent 3 weeks in Bali, taking gangsa lessons daily with Wayan Gandra in Ubud. He joined Dharma Swara upon returning to NYC, and is happy to be back after a hiatus.

He is a composer, music producer and founder/owner of Naturalistic Music + Sound, an NYC-based production company that creates original music for film, TV and podcasts. His credits include Joe’s Violin (2017 Oscar Nom.), In The Dark (2X Peabody Award winner), The New Yorker Presents (Amazon), Death Row Stories (CNN), Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill, A League Of Ordinary Gentlemen (Magnolia Pictures), Serpentine Pink, Sesame Street, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, Weeds, and a range of projects for HBO, NBC, CBS, TED, Discovery, VH1, PBS & Showtime, among others.

He was the leader of the power-pop band You And What Army, worked with ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, assisting in the development of Lomax’s The Global Jukebox, and was host/producer for the Knitting Factory’s pioneering webcast The Song.