Raz Mesinaiâs unique methods in producing and teaching has made him one of New Yorkâs most in demand teachers of music production today.
Raz Mesinai
- New York City NY Vereinigte Staaten
- Lehrt seit
- 2002
- Profil
- Trainer:in
- Sprachen
- Englisch
- Kontaktinformationen
- [javascript protected email address]
- Weitere Links
- Artist website

Raz began experimenting with cassettes and sampling at the age of 10, and at 14, was discovered by legendary musician Juma Sultan, a multi instrumentalist who collaborated with Jimi Hendrix and worked closely with the early Fairlight CMI Sampler.
Although Raz was trying to create music for Breakdancers in his neighborhood in New York City, Juma immediately recognized that Raz was also, unknowingly, working in similar ways to Jamaican Dub producers and experimental Rock musicians, such as Richie Havens and Jimi Hendrix.
To help guide Razâs development, Juma gave him a Mutli-Vox Tape Echo machine and a ribbon microphone, which Raz later used, along with percussion, drum machines, tape recorders and samplers, to produce his early productions.
Since then, Razâs productions have continuously surprised and inspired thousands of artists from around the world of various fields and disciplines, including experimental and contemporary music, avant garde, dub, dub step, experimental hip hop, free jazz, noise, drone music, electronic music and Dancehall. Raz Mesinaiâs project Badawi (1996-2011) helped define a style of music for film and media about horror and crisis in the Middle East, and his duo project with John Ward, Sub Dub, was a catalyst for the so called âillbient sceneâ in the 90âs in NYC. After Razâs album from 1999, Badawi: The Heretic Of Ether (Asphodel) was used as the template for the score to the blockbuster film, Black Hawk Down by Ridley Scott, Raz pioneered and coined the term âScore Designâ, the act of conceptualizing and producing temp and underscore for films with particularly demanding needs, eventually leading him to work on major motion pictures, including Darren Aronofskyâs âThe Fountainâ, âBlack Swanâ and âThe Wrestlerâ and more recently, Yaron Zilbermanâs âA Late Quartetâ. In 2004, Raz was awarded the prestigious Sundance Composers Lab Fellowship, where he worked on scores for Sundance Directors, with one on one guidance from composers John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Thomas Newman, Ed Shearmur and Jeff Beal, leading him to compose original scores for several documentaries and feature films.
Raz has received commissions from The Lincoln Center Festival, Carnegie Hall, Kronos Quartet, Ethel, The Kitchen and many other prestigious institutions and ensembles, and has, officially, remixed such artists as Burning Spear (Sub Dub), Shackleton (Badawi) and Arto Lindsay (Sub Dub) among others. Over the past 15 years, Raz has taught master classes in music production, sound design and film scoring at UCSD, The New School, Dub Spot and NYU and now works exclusively for the UPA. Raz is CEO of the sound design company Myth & Sound, Co owner of Trans-media production company Dub Fiction and co runs the record labels Silo Rumor w/ Jonathan Uliel Saldana and The Index w/ Dave Q.
Fun Facts: 1. To get the best results for each production, Raz rebuilds his entire studio from scratch, often combining his work as a visual artist to create sculpturesque environments that are also functioning recording studios. For instance, Raz re-created the environment from Kafkaâs story âThe Metamorphosisâ for his album Before The Law (Tzadik, 2001) and produced the psycho erotic horror album, The Unspeakable (BSI, 2000) in a studio built within a baby crib surrounded by the headless bodies of mannequins that he found outside of a clothing store in Soho.Â
2. When Mary Anne Hobbs asked Raz to do a mix for BBC Radio, he produced the Dub Opera Inannaâs Descent To The Netherworld, which disturbed the producers at the BBC so much that they demanded she state a disclaimer before playing it. Â
3. In the early 90âs, Mesinai landed an opportunity to write an issue of Marvel Comics Presents #99, which he used as a way to explore his idea of Trans Media Graffiti, and promote his âSoundBoyâ concept and character. Many years later, the comic reached Hip Hop producer and rapper HPrizm (aka High Priest of Anti Pop Consortium) among others. Â
4. Raz was commissioned to draw a graphic novel for the album Black Sun (Hyperdub), written and produced by Kode9 and The Space Ape. Â
5. Raz was in the music video for Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat) by The Digable Planets, and can be spotted if you freeze frame at the line âmy man with the Astroid Beltâ. Â
6. Razâs score to Hellraiser 6 was thrown out for being âtoo scary for the filmâ, and later became the album The Unspeakable (BSI, The Index) 2000. Â
7. In 2012 Raz produced and directed the underground film, Tunnel Vision, which was released on Tzadik DVD Series, and hailed by film composer John Zorn as âA 21st century cult classicâ. Â
8. Raz was one of the first Ableton Live Certified Trainers. Â
9. Raz is the grandson of abstract sculptor and decorated war artist Manuel Bromberg.
10. Raz composed and produced the album Resurrections For Goatskin (Tzadik, 2003), using only skins from goats as source material.Â
Hinweis: Ableton Certified Trainer und Ableton Certified Training Center sind private Organisationen oder Unternehmen und weder Mitarbeiter noch Vertreter von Ableton. Sie werden nicht von Ableton AG, Ableton Inc. oder Ableton KK verwaltet. Die Trainer und Training Center sind fßr ihre Studienangebote und Lehrpläne selbst verantwortlich. Ableton ßbernimmt keine Verantwortung oder Haftung fßr deren Handlungen.

- Lehrt seit
- 2002
- Profil
- Trainer:in
- Sprachen
- Englisch
- Kontaktinformationen
- [javascript protected email address]
- Weitere Links
- Artist website