November 2026 Meeting Notice

Once Upon a Time in Texas: Film Scoring, Post Production and the Independent Studio

Presented by

Mark Menza

Composer, Musician, Arranger, Music Producer
and

The Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society

Produced by

Pete Weise

AES PNW Committee, Musician, Educator

Tuesday, November 17 2026 6:30 PM PST (UTC -8)

Doors (virtual) open at 6:00 PM PDT (UTC -8)

To Attend:

This is an Online meeting. We ask you to sign up here for a free ticket, since that will tell us how many people will attend and we can plan accordingly.

 

The Zoom link will be sent two days before the event, via email to all ticket holders who sign up before the meeting.

We welcome everyone at Pacific Northwest AES meetings and tickets are free, although there is a way to donate to us without fees. All tickets, paid or free, are otherwise equal.

Meeting details:

Dallas-based composer and producer Mark Menza discusses the current landscape of the music industry through the lens of his past projects, providing insights into the process of composing and recording for different types of media and live performance, and how advances in music technology have affected the techniques of independent studios.

We hope to see you there!

Our Presenters:

Mark Menza

 

Mark Menza is a composer, musician, arranger and music producer with a focus on scoring to picture offering composing, sound design, audio postproduction, music supervision, and audio production for all types of media. Mark has worked on the animated franchises Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius [Paramount, Nickelodeon films], and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron TV series as post supervisor; The Ant Bully [Warner Bros], Dragon Ball GT, and Wishbone [PBS]. Mark has scored numerous films, documentaries, games, episodic TV, as well as a spectrum of commercials, and branded content. Mark is also a sound designer and audio post mixer for many independent features, short films, and broadcast work. Additionally he is an Adjunct Instructor at the University Of Texas At Dallas in Composition for Media.

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