An excerpt from A Day at the Museum: whimsical music by D.N.B. Pedergnana

David Noël Benjamin Pedergnana

was born to a musical family and by age four entertained himself at the piano almost daily. After reproducing songs he heard, he started spinning innovative impromptus that showed a taste for syncopation. Soon he was transposing and arranging music in his head while exploring compositional skills. Fascinated by the behavior of sound itself, his first works were created on audio cassette and often involved a mixture of acoustic and experimental electronic sounds-- including several attempts at musique concrète.

As a video game-obsessed teen, David spent years exploring the possibilities of motion algorithms, color, and electronic music. He wrote his own software, devising tools for composing and storing music on data cassette before MIDI was common. To make musical pitches, he referred to a frequency table computed using Fechner's law. Realizing he could make any pitch possible, he started early experiments simulating overtones and altering musical tuning.

He started creating computer graphics in the 1980s by plotting on graph paper and typing hexadecimal codes into his 16k home computer.

In the 1990s, David acted as media evangelist and instructional designer at Andersen Consulting Education near Chicago. He grew interested in possible instructional benefits of sound design while researching media compression and emerging technologies by Adobe, Digidesign, Targa, Pinnacle, and others. On the weekends, he jammed with amateur blues musicians in his basement. While beta testing video software for Intel and audio hardware for Korg, he won the award of a keyboard from Korg's Research and Development Team. That led to increased opportunities to experiment with synthesizers and digital audio at work. He intermittently served as a sound designer and modern-day court composer until 1998, when he migrated to Silicon Valley.

In California David briefly designed human interfaces for Cooper Interaction Design before joining 12cm Multimedia as a web and CD-ROM programmer. While there he also produced animation and music for TV ads, kiosks, and DVDs.

David founded Mood Paint in 2003 to offer freelance artistic and technical services while specializing in original music for film. He composed the haunting score for Christine Rose's documentary Liberty Bound. Mood Paint also created music for NBC, American Anime, and The Art Institute of Chicago.

David's music is the quirky heartbeat of Ted Rivera's Night of the Chupacabra and his creepy sound design supplies the ammo for Tony Urban's Hunting Season. He also licensed music for Zealot Pictures' documentary 24 Hours on Craigslist.

In 2008 Mood Paint announced that a portion of its music library would be released for direct licensing to TV and radio broadcasters, film students, and others via the Internet.

David's drive for excellence and communication ability has helped him forge relationships with producers, directors, and companies nationwide. Now discover what his music can do for you!