Paul
@paulstrayfer
Staten Island, NY USA
Joined May 5, 2006
Paul Strayfer started on the local music scene in the heavy metal band, All For Nothing, back in 1996 at the age of 14. After 10 years and 3 albums with the band, they departed and focused more other metal projects. Paul, on the other hand, found a niche in his acoustic playing. He started playing a few instrumentals that he wrote at various open mikes in the Staten Island area and immediately started getting a great response. His heartfelt music can appeal to anyone who hears it, and it's fun to watch too with various "two-hand tapping" techniques and "guitar-slapping". As Paul puts it, "The most general and simplistic definition of music is the transfer of emotion to sound. All these songs I write, I write for myself... to take whatever deep feeling I have and create a piece of music that represents it. I know I've done my job when someone can relate to one of my songs when I haven't spoken one word."
Last year Paul was signed to do the score for a film which will be released in 2009 and plans on continuing writing for as many films as he can. "When making a movie, there's a lot of emotion that the director wants to translate to the viewer. There's often a gap between the acting and dialog that prevents that emotion from reaching the viewer. I want to fill that gap."
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