Kris "Halo" Pierce - ProfilesArchive

About Me

"May I never be complete.
May I never be content.
May I never be perfect.
Deliver me, Tyler, from being complete and perfect."
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club
"I'd rather fall tragically short while chasing impossible dreams,
than do anything else in this world.
Destination: Big lights, big life." - Poe fan
"The Rockae" reviewed by the Village Voice
To paraphrase Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, there's a thin line between genius and stupid, one that Peter Mills and Cara Reichel walk with flair in The Rockae, their rock adaptation of Euripides's The Bacchae, part of the NYMT fest...to read more check my blog or go HERE
I'm a junkie for all things creative and a lover of escapism. I'm a professional music producer with some level of notoriaty (by "professional" I mean, my sole source of income stems from producing music). I was nominated for a Grammy last year for some work with Common's song, "The Corner" and am proud of the Gold Record for the same song. When it's all said and done, I'm living out my life's dream and am living proof that if you work hard enough, take enough criticism, and refuse to give up, then anyone can make their dreams come true. And I really mean MAKE their dreams come true. It definately doesn't get handed to you and it is always on the verge of being revoked. Therefore, in order to keep your dream, you must respect it and respect the people who helped you along the way. It's amazing what a simple "thank you" will do.
2005 saw me working with HIM, Bizzy Bone, Paula Cole, and a slew of indies. 2006 saw me topping the national college Hip-Hop charts with the charismatic MC, Big Meg , producing "Sweet Radio" and "Africa Welcomes You" for the South African super group, Mikanic , as well as recording the internationally acclaimed blackgrass album, "Head Home", for the insanely talented misfits known as O'Death (voted #1 best act to see by Time Out New York), and single handedly developing the rock band, Decembers Fall , into a Myspace phenomenon, proving talent through diversity.
Please check out my solo projects,

Haunted Echo
as well as

Resident51 , my project with producer and vocalist, Elaine Benavides .

My Interests

Haunted Echo @ MySpace
Writing and producing music
Recording and mixing engineering
Writing screenplays
Microphones
Keyboards
DAWs
Recording consoles

Purchase
Black Sunshine: The Tampa Underground and Beyond
@ Amazon.com or Cleopatra Records

Purchase HEAD HOME by O'DEATH @ Amazon.com

Previous Clients:
Snoop Dogg, Whoopi Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper, James Blunt, Constantine, KT Turnstall, Tyra Banks, MTV (Making the Band 4, My Super Sweet Sixteen, The New Menudo, various company events), Hugh Padgham, Rick Ocasek, Janet Jackson, Bizzy Bone, Law and Order Prime-SVU-CI, Common, Angel Fernandez, Sadat-X, Mikanic, Decembers Fall, etc...

I'd like to meet:

Followers of the Green Path
Tuatha de Danaa
Fairies
Musicians
Producers
Film Makers
Screenplay Writers

Music:

Delerium
Frontline Assembly
Conjure One
Equinox
Pro-Tech
Synesthesia
Intermix
Poe
Oingo Boingo
Lamb
Faithless
Massive Attack
Sneaker Pimps
Danny Tenaglia
Roni Size
Basement Jaxx
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Leonard Cohen
Portishead
Timo Maas
Danny Elfman
Bjork
Kruder and Dorfmeister
Hooverphonic
Skinny Puppy
Underworld
Junkie XL
Radiohead
The Birthday Party
Linkin Park
Madonna
Britney Spears
Morcheeba
Mono
The Dust Brothers
Underworld
Download
The Tear Garden
Future Sound of London
Olive

Movies:

Fight Club
12 Monkeys
SE7EN
Brazil
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Sleepy Hollow
Nightmare Before Christmas
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Village of Lost Children
Dark City
A Beautiful Mind
American History X
Edward Scissorhands

Television:

Law and Order
Law and Order:SVU
The X-Files

Books:

The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
Victorian Era Ghost/Mystery Stories
Hannibal, Thomas Harris
The 21 Lessons of Merlyn, Douglas Monroe
L. Frank Baum
Sir Aurther Conan Doyle
C.S. Lewis
Michael Crighton

Heroes:

Bill Leeb
Danny Elfman
Rhys Fulber
Harrison Ford
Johnny Depp
Tim Burton
Caroline Thompson
Jack Nicholson

My Blog

Taking over the world!!

I’m very happy to announce that Bailie and I are teaming together to officially launch our new company, Halo Askew Entertainment. Ok, so the paperwork gets filed next week, but we’ve...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:36:00 PST

Taking over at Alter Boyz

This is the city of being in the right place at the right time...I've been the substitute sound board operator at Alter Boyz (New World Stages, Stage 4, 50th street and 8th Ave) since November, a...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:43:00 PST

New(ish) Music...Hail Skinny Puppy, Nick Cave, and FLA

Seems it's been a little while since I posted new stuff, so I've uploaded "PickPocket" (the first HE song to feature me singing). Then I put up my homage piece to Skinny Puppy, "The Kalta View" ...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:04:00 PST

The first thing you ever heard...

So I'm hanging out with Bailie and Rachel, a friend of her's since 1rst grade, in New Jersey (yes, I took a shower when I returned to the city), and the conversation turns to a mom having the choice o...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:32:00 PST

I am not an axe murderer...

Apparently, every now and then people take a look at my online persona and they take a couple steps back. Actually, even people who know me do the same thing...probably for the same reason. ...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:41:00 PST

Modern Fairy Tale

The last step in magic is the act of adjusting your life as if the desired outcome had already been achieved. Add to that yesterday, being Halloween, when it is rumored that the veil between her...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:56:00 PST

Brilliant Quote

"Love is the state in which man see things most widely different from what they are. The force of Illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. ...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:06:00 PST

My eyes were closed

Things had gotten very, very tumultuous. I was a half a step away from giving in, giving up. In my head I was screaming until blood came into my mouth, "Hail the barbarians. Cheer yo...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:02:00 PST

A Red Right Hand - Chapter 1

I'm working on the final draft of this story I've been working on for five or so years. It started as a stage play, then a screenplay, and I now dedicate it to novel form. I'll be posting ...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:37:00 PST

Heading to Alter Boys

So I'm starting rehearsals for running sound at the Off Broadway hit musical "Alter Boys." It's about 5 guys in a boy christian boy band on tour. I'll be taking over as sound board operato...
Posted by Kris "Halo" Pierce on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:05:00 PST