Kevin Shea Adams is a musician, producer and photographer based in Sausalito. Growing up in Marin County, CA he spent most days at the guitar or hiding in the high school darkroom. After recieving his first synthesizer from local sound designer Ren Klyce (a Yahama DX7) during a summer job cataloging DAT tapes for the movie Seven, Kevin moved beyond guitar pedals and into electronics, production and engineering. He then went to college at UC Berkeley, doing a BA in Philosophy and getting heavily involved at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), where he studied wtih composers Edmund Campion and David Wessel.

After college, Kevin opened his first recording studio in a former barn in Forest Knolls, CA, working as chief engineer and producer and recording many Bay Area artists while also writing and performing with his electronic project ReRunner. He later returned the East Bay to complete an MFA at Mills College, studying composition and electronic music with Fred Frith, Les Stuck, Chris Brown, Zeena Parkins and Pauline Oliveros.

In parallel to music, Kevin had paid his way through grad school with work as a freelance photographer, and when he relocated to New York City’s East Village in 2008 his photography and writing began to take on a life of their own, leading to work as a contributor and writer at various magazines such as VICE, Noisey, Paper, Playboy, and The New York Times. After 8 years in New York, he left his studio at the Pencil Factory in Brooklyn and returned to California, this time to Hollywood, joining as a producer with longtime friend Will Bates at Fall on Your Sword to create scores for film, series, games and ads with clients from Netflix and HBO to Ubisoft. In 2022, Kevin returned to Marin and currently resides in Sausalito where he continues to work as a freelance producer and artist.


Contact:
info@kevinsheaadams.com

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