Michael Gochanour

Michael Gochanour
Website	mickgochanour.com

Michael "Mick" Gochanour is a Grammy Award-winning American director, producer and composer. Gochanour is known for his work with The Rolling Stones, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Sam Cooke.

Gochanour grew up in Moline, Illinois. Gochanour studied film and music at Black Hawk College and played in local rock bands; he also worked in and alternative record shop in Galesburg, IL and was a founding member of The Pine Street Persuaders Blues Band before moving to New York City in 1981.

In New York Gochanour worked in entertainment management, overseeing concert tours for Billy Squier, Tears for Fears, Billy Idol, 10,000 Maniacs and many others. In the late 80s, he worked for Gramavision, and later TVT Records as a Controller assisting with the transition from a novelty label to a roster of indie bands including Nine Inch Nails, The Connells and later Sevendust, Aphex Twin and others.

After leaving TVT, he formed MixUp NYC, a recording and production studio. He also toured with Peter Gabriel (Secret World Live), David Bowie (Black Tie, White Noise) and worked on the pre-production of Madonna's The Girlie Show. In 1993 he began his long association with Abkco Records. His most notable works for Abkco includes films for The Rolling Stones, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Sam Cooke. Gochanour also produced and/or directed music videos, commercials and promotional films for The Animals, The Herman’s Hermits, Metric, Virgin Air and others. As a sound designer, composer and musical supervisor, he has specialized in nature documentaries for Turner Broadcast, World Wildlife Organization and the Discovery Channel. He composed the soundtrack for T-Rex: New Science, New Beast (2007) for Emmy-winning director Ann Johnson-Prum. His songs have been produced and recorded by artist Ben Green, Jimi Zhivago, Percy Jones and others.

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