Leonard Barger

Bio

artist

Northern California Coast, CA

Growing up in a artistic environment during the early 70's in a time when great music and visual arts were colliding like atoms in a nuclear reactor, gave a glimpse of a world with unlimited possibilities and potential where the imagination could flourish and expand without borders. This was the training ground where New Jazz Movement's artistic journey began... Being actively involved with visual art throughout our years in school, gave us a broad range of experiences which included sketching, painting, crafting and in our spare time we would explore the world of music. Sometime after our interest in music began to flourish, which was around the time we were in high school, our family received a settlement from a car accident a year earlier so our father had purchased a piano for us to learn to play and this became our primary learning tool to explore music with. During the first years of high school our focal point of interest shifted towards drum and percussion as well as analog tape recording and mastery of the guitar, we began to focus more on the recording aspects of music and with a little help from several low cost tape recorders, we were able to master the basics...more to come soon. Music - Production - Composer We use Live Guitars (acoustic & Electric) Keyboards, Bass, Drums & Percussion to Paint Audioscapes or sound beds of my own creation, and make our own Samples, We also Record, Mix & produce using Roland VS Hard Disk Digital Recorders and Mixing consoles, Digidesign's Pro-Tools 001 C.R.I. and Korg Digital Recorders.