Labels AltrOck Productions Occupation(s) Composer Name Wally Scharold | Instruments Guitar, voice Role Musical Artist Years active 1995-present Associated acts miRthkon, MoeTar | |
Origin Oakland, California, USA Genres Avant-prog, 20th-century classical music, Video game music | ||
Birth name Walter Ballew Scharold | ||
Wally Scharold is an Oakland, California based musician, composer, bandleader, producer, and filmmaker. Born and raised in Houston, TX he sang in choirs and musicals from age 10, studied rock, jazz, and classical guitar from age 11, and studied contemporary classical composition from age 17 with Todd Frazier, Michael Remson, Christopher Theofanidis, John Luther Adams, Brenda Hutchinson, Randolph Coleman, Fred Frith and Alvin Curran. As a performer/arranger/composer he has been an active member of the avant-progressive rock community in Oakland. He currently leads his own ensemble miRthkon, an 'amplified chamber ensemble masquerading as a rock band' -- a six-piece ensemble which performs and records his own compositions (as well as others by fellow members and other local composers). He has also been a member or guest of several other bands including MoeTar, The Fuxedos, Research & Development, Tholus, Midline Errors, Marana Jocund, ThinkTank, My Hero, and Headshear He is also a composer of works for film, dance, video games, and other media including Guitar Hero: Van Halen, Disney's iOS Rhythm Game Tap Tap Revenge, Disney's iOS game Cars 2, a score for the documentary "Pup", a commission by the intermedia performance group Double Vision, and recent commissions by San Francisco based ensemble The Living Earth Show and guitarist Travis Andrews.
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Since 2003, Scharold has also worked professionally as a composer, sound designer, audio engineer, guitarist, voiceover artist, and game designer for over one hundred commercial products and titles released by many companies including LeapFrog, Electronic Arts, Activision, Tapulous, Disney, and IGT