knobworld

Music Scoring
Los Angeles, CA

Film composer, songwriter, recordist

Jim Lang was born and raised just outside Kansas City. Although self-taught in music, he studied theater at Northwestern University. He began his professional career as composer and musical director of the Goodman Theater's Free Street Theater Project where he did pioneering work in integrating prerecorded tapes and synthesizers with live musicians and actors. He moved to Los Angeles in 1972 to play in Todd Rundgren's band, and subsequently became involved in film scoring when he was tapped by John Carpenter to collaborate on his projects "Body Bags" and "In the Mouth of Madness" He is known for his theme music, original songs and score for Nickelodeon's hit animated series "Hey Arnold!". His original music was featured in the Ron Howard films "The Paper," "Ransom," and "ED TV." His numerous record credits include a series of collaborations with Eels writer/producer Mark (E) Everett including tracks on The Eels "ElectroShock Blues," "Daisies of the Galaxy,""Soul Jacker"and "Blinking Lights" Recent work includes the forthcoming album "jazz criminal," a collaboration with electronic music legend Patrick Gleeson, reedman Bennie Maupin and trumpeter Wallace Roney.