Ever Studio is an award-winning boutique music design company that composes, records and produces music for moving images; from 30-second spots to feature film scores. Our multifaceted creative team’s credits include chart-topping pop hits, indie rock classics, world class jazz sessions, and major corporate clients from Microsoft to MTV.
steven emerson | principal, composer
Since gaining national attention as a drummer and guitarist with Paisley Underground pioneers True West, a cult band that toured with REM and collaborated with Television’sTom Verlaine, Steven Emerson has reinvented himself several times, from New York singer/songwriter, poet and filmmaker to cool San Francisco crooner. With the release of his 1996 solo debut “Until” and 2000’s “Set In Motion” he introduced a distinctive body of songs drawing on the luscious harmonies of West Coast jazz and yearning hooks of 1970s soul. >>
Emerson has spent much of the past decade off the performance circuit, focusing on composing projects and film scoring in his Berkeley studio, while honing an expansive catalog of new songs he’s introducing on his third album “Song of Love.” His work in Ever Studio features the same concision and creative resourcefulness that distinguishes his work as a recording artist.
While ace bassist Jon Evans is best known as a longtime member of Tori Amos’s band, he’s maintained a thriving second career running his own studio, recording and producing dozens of albums by a vast array of artists, including Grammy-nominated albums by Will Bernard and Marcie Brown. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1991 and settling in the Bay Area he became one of the West Coast’s most sought after accompanists, touring and recording with Linda Perry, Paula Cole, Alex De Grassi, Third Eye Blind and Amos, with whom he’s made numerous network television appearances, 10 major label CDs and two live DVDs, and contributed to several movie soundtracks. >>
Since opening San Pablo Recorders in Berkeley in 2000, Evans has also composed and produced music for corporations such as Microsoft, Anheuser-Busch, and Logitech.
As the lead composer/sound designer of San Francisco’s cutting-edge electronic music group Trifonic, Brian Trifon applies his versatile skills as a guitarist and composer to a vast range of media and genres. Working with Jesper Kyd he’s contributed music to several recent high-profile video games, including “Borderlands,” the award-winning “Assassin’s Creed II,” and “Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood.” As a groove specialist, he’s crafted pieces featured on mix albums with tracks by Massive Attack, Trentemøller, and Sasha. >>
His Trifonic work has been licensed for advertisements and TV shows such as “CSI,” “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy,” and the BBC’s “Top Gear.” A productive creative relationship with innovative electronic artist BT resulted in collaborations on scores for several films and TV shows. Trifon also teaches audio synthesis and software classes in the Bay Area, and provides in depth production tutorial videos at the Trifonic blog nextstepaudio.com
A visionary producer, mixer, composer and founding partner of the prolific production team RxBx Music, Oakland’s Brian Lee White has helped shape the sonic contours of contemporary pop culture. Since the late 1990s White’s work has been seen and heard by a vast international audience on major label releases, network television shows, national ad campaigns and internationally acclaimed live acts. He’s mixed and engineered tracks by the Black Eyed Peas’ Apl.de.ap and Taboo, Chris Brown, Jean Baptiste/Freeschool, Noisettes, Cheryl Cole, DJ Goldenchyld, Jason Derulo, and Kelis., among many others. >>
He mixed and edited pieces for The JabbawockeeZ, the hip hop troupe that became an international dance sensation after winning the reality dance competition “America’s Best Dance Crew.” And he provided mixing and additional production on Estonian pop star Kerli’s #1 single “Army of Love,” which topped the Billboard charts in early May 2011.
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steven emerson | principal, composer
Since gaining national attention as a drummer and guitarist with Paisley Underground pioneers True West, a cult band that toured with REM and collaborated with Television’s Tom Verlaine, Steven Emerson has reinvented himself several times, from New York singer/songwriter, poet and filmmaker to cool San Francisco crooner. With the release of his 1996 solo debut “Until” and 2000’s “Set In Motion” he introduced a distinctive body of songs drawing on the luscious harmonies of West Coast jazz and yearning hooks of 1970s soul.
jon evans | composer
While ace bassist Jon Evans is best known as a longtime member of Tori Amos’s band, he’s maintained a thriving second career running his own studio, recording and producing dozens of albums by a vast array of artists, including Grammy-nominated albums by Will Bernard and Marcie Brown. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1991 and settling in the Bay Area he became one of the West Coast’s most sought after accompanists, touring and recording with Linda Perry, Paula Cole, Alex De Grassi, Third Eye Blind and Amos, with whom he’s made numerous network television appearances, 10 major label CDs and two live DVDs, and contributed to several movie soundtracks.
brian trifon | composer
As the lead composer/sound designer of San Francisco’s cutting-edge electronic music group Trifonic, Brian Trifon applies his versatile skills as a guitarist and composer to a vast range of media and genres. Working with Jesper Kyd he’s contributed music to several recent high-profile video games, including “Borderlands,” the award-winning “Assassin’s Creed II,” and “Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood.” As a groove specialist, he’s crafted pieces featured on mix albums with tracks by Massive Attack, Trentemøller, and Sasha.
brian lee white | composer
A visionary producer, mixer, composer and founding partner of the prolific production team RxBx Music, Oakland’s Brian Lee White has helped shape the sonic contours of contemporary pop culture. Since the late 1990s White’s work has been seen and heard by a vast international audience on major label releases, network television shows, national ad campaigns and internationally acclaimed live acts. He’s mixed and engineered tracks by the Black Eyed Peas’ Apl.de.ap and Taboo, Chris Brown, Jean Baptiste/Freeschool, Noisettes, Cheryl Cole, DJ Goldenchyld, Jason Derulo, and Kelis., among many others.