Production Staff
Executive Staff
Gregory J. Gordon
Executive ProducerGregory J. Gordon is the founder and CEO of Pyramind Inc. and President of Epiphyte Records. He is an engineer, producer, educator and award winning sound designer driven to push the boundaries of digital technology. In 1996 Greg helped develop the digital audio program at SFSU’s multimedia studies program, and went on to build relations with Apple Computers, Digidesign Inc., and other industry leaders to create his unique vision of a digital audio based production and training center in downtown San Francisco.
In his fifteen/plus years as a studio owner and producer he has worked with a wide variety of clients in video games, film and television including: Sony Computer Entertainment America, Electronic Arts, Cineville Films, Grey Advertising, and Maclaren Mccann to name a few.
Greg's passion for music has also led him to engineer and produce numerous recordings for notable artists including: Dhamaal, Native, Goddess Gaia, Rocker T w/Joan Baez and Merl Saunders w/Jerry Garcia. His work with Goddess Gaia was included on the 2004 best selling double CD, Destination Lounge San Francisco.
Greg is an eighteen-year voting member of NARAS and is now in his fourth term as a governor for the SF chapter where he co-chairs the Producers & Engineers wing committee. Greg is also a founding member of Test Press and the executive producer of “Test Press SF” whose 2007 release on Epiphyte Records sprang from the successful Test Press events which Greg was instrumental in producing and securing sponsorship funding from Ableton Inc.
In 2008 Greg worked with the producers of Lovefest, San Francisco's largest electronic music festival, to become a founding member and producer of The Get Connected Electronic Music Summit: An annual event designed to bring together leaders and enthusiasts in the electronic music, media and technology industries to explore and develop innovative opportunities across these increasingly converging sectors.
Gregory J. Gordon
Executive Producer
Matt Donner
Producer
"Matt Donner has been playing music his whole life. He played throughout college while earning a Bachelor's degree in quantitative Business Analysis but left the and cut his Producer and Engineering chops in NYC. He found himself working for high-profile studios like Sound on Sound (Diddy, Anita Baker) and Greene Street (Run DMC and Public Enemy) right after earning his Masters in Music and Music Technology at NYU. He went on to perform for various TV studios and John Cale (Velvet Underground) that included 3 feature film scores using Pro Tools version 1.0 and a two-day live event to open the Andy Warhol Museum. After signing his band to an indy record deal, his cross-country tour brought him to SF where the drummer exploded - how typical.
Matt quickly found himself in high demand in the studio scene as a rare experienced Pro Tools user and became an award-winning Regional Technical Director for Guitar Center, and the Pro Tools Support Lead for the Cutting Edge Audio Group where he served as studio designer, installer and trainer for the likes of Joe Satriani, Metallica, Benny Reitveld (Santana and the SF Jazz Fest) as well as hundreds of private studios including Wally World (Walter A., N'Sync, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion). A crowning achievement during this period was to install, troubleshoot, deliver and support 50 Pro Tools workstations for the legendary Skywalker Sound during production of Star Wars Episode 1. He claims no responsibility for Jar Jar Binks...
In January 2000, he and Greg Gordon began working together exclusively at Pyramind where they began running the hybrid Production/ Training businesses successfully. Matt has served the company as Chief Engineer, Senior Producer/ Composer, Chief Technical Officer, Vice-President and now as Director of Education. He grew the Pyramind Training program from a single 24 hour class to athe highly-touted 920 hour 12-month Digital Sound Producer-Complete (DSP-C). He has trained hundreds of students and mixed/mastered another hundred or so records (including his own released in 2002) as well as publishing several magazine articles. He has published two texts on Pro Tools (Pro Tools Overdrive V 6.9 and V7 for Thomson Press) and is currently engaged to publish a third for Cengage Press ("Going Pro with Pro Tools" - expected release April 2009).
Matt currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Kimberly and his two children, Marcus and Madison. He has been training in Mixed Martial Arts and Bak Mei Kung Fu for 6 years and on good days, surfs the Pacific at Ocean Beach on his Al Merrick 6' 2" fish. The pacific usually wins. Occasionally, he even takes the dogs (Colonel and Chase) for a walk in Golden Gate Park."
Matt Donner
Producer
Paul Lipson
VP of Business Development / ComposerFor over seventeen years, Paul has refined his skills in management, strategy, music, and education. His career has taken him all over the world, and his passion for audio, technology, and the performing arts has helped him advocate for advancement in the interactive entertainment industry.
Paul is extremely passionate about music and interactive audio, and he currently serves as the President of the Game Audio Network Guild - the leading worldwide organization of game audio professionals. He has worked closely with the Officers of G.A.N.G. to originate the industry-first Program Partnership Initiative, and was the mastermind behind the Guild Scholarship Award for Game Audio. Paul was awarded the G.A.N.G. “Distinguished Service Award” at the 2006 Game Developer’s Conference for his work in education and advocacy for the interactive audio arts.
Before joining the team at Pyramind, he served as the co-founder and CEO of Hit Point Music (HPM) - a development company specializing in music for games and screen . His team produced for an array of elite clients, including projects for America Online, Hasbro Interactive, Harmonix/Sonic Implants, Associated Production Music, Hyundai Automotive, Killer Tracks, The Environmental Protection Agency, Urbane-Dog Creative, and Legends-Tribal War, just to name a few.
Paul also served as the Chief Academic Officer at Expression College for Digital Arts, and worked as the Director of The Learning through Music and Technology Initiative at the LCG (Boston). He has also spent time as an instructor at Berklee College of Music, has conducted master classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Conservatory of Pernambuco in Brazil, and was a founding teacher and Director of Technology at the Conservatory Lab Charter School (Boston).
Paul holds a Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree highest distinction from the world-renowned New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He is a member of the International Game Developers Association, The Music Educators National Conference, BMI, and the Game Audio Network Guild.
