Steve Van Dam Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, Us

With our Visual Music technology, we help anyone experience music in a deeper, more creative way. We are using our ORO Visual Music apps to teach Innovation, Digital Production, and Music Education.1. ORO Innovation - (See attached ORO Lab one-sheet below). We take students start to finish through envisioning and making their own ORO Visual Music app. They engage in design thinking, digital production, and entrepreneurship, and of course teamwork and problem solving, all around a real iOS product in the App Store. We just finished up a program with The Steward School, (see story below), and we are currently signing up new schools to this program.2. ORO Music Education/Therapy - We also use ORO Visual Music apps to help teach music appreciation, history and theory at The Faison Center. (See www.LightTheMusic.com/educate/). Along the way, we are measuring the therapeutic impact for these students on the ASD spectrum. We have been excited to see both educational gains as well as a data trend in our preliminary study that shows a beneficial impact.

Composer/Producer/MusicianSteve Van Dam has excelled in virtually every aspect of creating and performing music as president and owner of Dojo Productions (www.dojopro.com), a boutique production studio in Virginia. A composer and multi-instrumentalist, he has created music for feature films and tv, and for commercial clients from Allstate to Walmart. Co-writer of the hit single "Hooch", he is also a seasoned producer, arranger, engineer, mixer, and sound designer. As a music director and performer, he has played thousands of shows around the world, with artists such as Dave Matthews Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, and his own band Everything. MUSIC PLACEMENT:* Film: The Waterboy (Adam Sandler)Drop Dead Gorgeous (Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards)Eye See You (Sylvester Stallone)*Television: My Name is Earl, Scrubs, Arena Football League (NBC)CSI, Yes Dear (CBS) The Opposite Sex (FOX)Clueless (ABC)The Real World, Road Rules, Loveline (MTV)* Radio: 400,000+ spins international airplay"Top 10" hits on Modern Rock, Pop, AAA, and Hot AC charts* Commercials:Allstate, Axe, ESPN, Infiniti, MGD, Mitsubishi, NASCAR, Nokia, Quizno's, Suzuki, VisaPRODUCTION:*Credits include:- Blue Merle "Burning in the Sun" (Island/DefJam)- Cracker "Guarded by Monkeys Remix"- Corey Harris "Downhome Sophisticate" (Rounder Records)- Kid Pan Alley - national children's songwriter program- Everything "People Are Moving" (W.A.R.)*Collaborations: Stephen Harris (U2, DMB, Santana)John Fields (Pink, Andrew W.K., Switchfoot)Jim Ebert (Madonna, Ice Cube, Meredith Brooks)David Sancious (Peter Gabriel, Sting, Bruce Springsteen)Adam Moseley (Dust Brothers, The Cure)Specialties: music, composition, production, sound design, sfx, arranging, ProTools engineer, mixer

Everything, best known for their hit song "Hooch", toured extensively from 1992-2002, playing thousands of shows in the U.S. and abroad, and building a sizable grass roots fan base in the process. Independently, they sold close to 50,000 records before being signed by Blackbird/Sire in 1998. Their "SuperNatural" album sold over 300,000 copies and featured the single "Hooch" which charted AAA #3, Pop #4, Modern Rock #13, Adult Contemporary #7, receiving over 600,000 spins.Currently on hiatus, the band's most recent album "In the Juju Underworld" can be found on Itunes, and wherever digital music is sold. For more information, check out www.thebandeverything.com

Developing technology and apps that fuse music, creativity, visuals and interactivity.

Compose music, produce music

Worked with various bands and producers in studios mostly on the East Coast.

Bfa, Music Theory And Composition

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Music

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