About Us

EDUCATION

Berklee College of Music, Contemporary Writing & Production, Boston/MA

Koc University, Business Administration, Istanbul/Turkey

I.U. State Conservatory, Classical Piano, Istanbul/Turkey

EXPERIENCE & CREDENTIALS

Airplay on CNN-Turk, national TV network in Turkey.

Performance in Fenway Park, Boston/MA.

Credits for sound design on three video games for Play Station 2 and XBox, distributed by KONAMI.

Composed and orchestrated for the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Lancaster/PA.

Worked as a marketing specialist, Columbia Records, Sony Music Turkey

"You are a very talented arranger/composer. There are lots of soulful motifs in your work. Keep it up!"

Arif Mardin

Uygar Nomad Ovunc wasn't always the multi-faceted genius that he is today. He once dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player, but those dreams were dashed when he discovered that he was only 5'10". His love of ice cream led him to consider a career as a dairy farmer, but a crippling fear of cows kept him from ever seeing a profit (for some reason, goat's milk ice cream never did catch on).

Pirate, astronaut, lion tamer...one by one, all of Nomad's career options were shattered on the hard, sharp rocks of reality. Finally, pushed beyond the limits of human endurance, he turned to the one field in which he knew he could make a safe, respectable, steady and dependable living... music.

Upon finishing business school and terminating his piano studies at the state conservatory in his home land of Turkey, he started working for Sony Music Turkey. As a product specialist for Columbia Records, he recognized the strength of sound and music as marketing tools. After a year of pushing corporate art, he decided to move to the US and study more music.

Acceptance to Berklee College of Music (and denial to all others) made his school choice easy. An annoying overachiever, he finished his 8 semester program in Contemporary Writing & Production in a mere 5 semesters. At Berklee he proved himself to be a versatile piano player and emerged as a new breed of musician, combining three separate professions: composer, orchestrator and digital/audio dweeb. His interest in learning and fascination for everything that makes sound enabled him to work with a large palette of colors. From jazz big bands, Brazilian styles and Middle Eastern music to electronic composition and sound design, he continued to learn and grow.

While at Berklee, he discovered the unfathomable possibilities that technology offers artists. He embraced computers and sound processing applications as new instruments of creation. At a virtually perfect time, Harmonix Music Systems, an independent game developer, employed him and provided him with invaluable experience in the field of audio technology.

Now, all these fields of interest and experience have come together in Audio Authorities. Since starting this company, Nomad has brought music and audio services to clients with a variety of needs