Chris Wirsig is an award-winning composer, songwriter and
producer, who enjoyed classical training on piano and
saxophone, studied audio engineering at SAE Technology
College, and has more than 20 years experience in music
production. His music can be heard in the award-winning
documentary series "Halloween Obsessed," the vampire feature
"The Things We Cannot Change," several short movies, the
comedy feature “39 And A Half,” as well as in games like the
acclaimed Top Ten iPad game “Alien Tribe 2,” and in numerous
TV shows on ABC, E!, MTV, History, Oxygene, Fox Sports, and
many others.
Current and upcoming projects include the pilot for an LGBTQ+
animated comedy series, “Be More Popcorn,” the cyberpunk
boxing drama “Steel Will,” a tech-horror series pilot,
“Glitch,” and charity projects with cover versions of Depeche
Mode's "People Are People" with 36 musicians and singers, and
a Heavy Metal version of the Ukrainian National Anthem
benefitting the Red Cross.
On the songwriting/producing side, Chris started the acclaimed
Electro Pop/Dark Wave band no:carrier in 1995 and the
Electronica/Chill-Out project Virtual Conformity in 2001, as
well as several side projects. He’s also co-writing and
producing songs with other artists and songwriters like
Psyche, Lori Barth, Briana Cash, Daniel E. Wakefield, Liza
Marie Sparks, Queen Chameleon, The Dust Ryde, echoekill, and
many others.
After studying audio engineering in the late 1990’s, he worked
as editor for the musician & tech magazines “KEYS” and
“Studio Post Pro,” and founded the first German fair-trade
record label, NovaTune.
Chris is a Grammy Voting Member, as well as a member of the
Production Music Association and the Society Of Composers and
Lyricists, for which he served as LA Administrator for two
years and is now a member of its Board of Directors.