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| Born | March 30, 1980 Scottsdale, Arizona, US |
| Genres | Film score |
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| Website | silashite |
Silas Hite (born March 30, 1980) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer.
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| Born | March 30, 1980 Scottsdale, Arizona, US |
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| Website | silashite |
Silas Hite (born March 30, 1980) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer.
Hite began playing drums when he was eleven, studying with jazz drummer Mel Zelnick. He taught himself guitar and bass and sang in the choir at The Orme School. He later studied music, art, and business at The University of Arizona. [1]
His music focus was in percussion performance and experimental composition. He also studied at the University's recording studio.
Hite began his professional career at Mutato Muzika, a music production company owned by his uncle, composer and co-founder of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh. [2]
From 2003 to 2010, Hite scored and co-scored many films, television shows, video games, and commercials as an in-house composer and session musician. During this time he worked on commercial campaigns including Burger King's "Subservient Chicken" campaign which won a Grand Clio and Cannes Cyber Gold Lion in Viral Marketing. Another collaboration was Apple Inc.'s Get a Mac campaign.
In 2010, Hite left Mutato Muzika to become a freelance composer. He continues to score films, television shows, commercials and video games.
In 2013, Hite began a string of collaborations with artist and filmmaker John Herschend. This included scoring "Stories From the Evacuation", commissioned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and "Discussion Questions" for Whitney Biennial in 2014.
In 2015, he scored episodes of "Chef's Table," a Netflix Original Series. Each episode of the series profiles a chef and has a classically based score.
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