gary dann.

Gary Dann is a music producer, designer, musician, and aerial photographer. In 2001, he started the Philadelphia based music, video, and wesite production studio GDMS. As if he were a scientist in a laboratory, Gary uses the many various tools around him to craft a unique flavor of visual and audible art that bubbles waves of originality.

Gary is one half of the eclectic studio production duo called Advanced Mechanisms. Alongside fellow musician/producer Adam Charlton, Gary is writing and recording their debut album entitled "Advance and Be Mechanized." Gary and Adam are tapping into diverse influences from many different cultures to create music that would appeal to everybody from the toughest gangsta on the street to your sweet old grandma and everybody else in between.

Other current projects include playing drums in the 8 piece electro-symphonic band known as Gemini Wolf, who has just released their debut album "Josiah" on earSnake Records. Dreamy vocals, laptop bleeps, thunderous drums, dubby bass, a chamber string quartet, and guitars all blend together in the world of Gemini Wolf.

Gary also is performing drums with and producing songs and music videos for Cee Knowledge, AKA Doodlebug from the world famous Grammy winning Digable Planets.

Gary is also an aerial photographer and co-owner of the firm Vertical View Aerial Photography. Flying up to 500 feet, Gary photographs the impossible from a remote helium airship.

photo: hiroko tanaka