Silas Hite
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| Born | March 30, 1980 |
| Genres | Film score |
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| Website | silashite |
Silas Hite, (born March 30, 1980), is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and visual artist.
Hite began playing drums when he was eleven, studying with jazz drummer Mel Zelnick. He taught himself guitar and bass and sang in the choir at The Orme School. He later studied music, art and business at The University of Arizona. His music focus was in percussion performance and experimental composition. He also studied at the University's recording studio.
Silas's began his professional career at Mutato Muzika, a music production company owned by his uncle, composer and co-founder of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh. From 2003 to 2010, Silas scored and co-scored many films, television shows, video games, and commercials as an in-house composer and session musician. During this time he worked on many memorable commercial campaigns including "one of the most popular viral ad campaigns of all time," Burger King's "Subservient Chicken" campaign which won a Grand Clio and Cannes Cyber Gold Lion in Viral Marketing. Another notable collaboration was Apple Inc.'s Get a Mac campaign with 66 different iterations (not including many more new spots in the UK and Japan) appearing on television and in Apple Inc. stores in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Japan from 2006 to 2009. The long-running popular campaign was named "Campaign of the Decade" by Adweek and won many awards such as a Grand Effie Award in 2007.
In 2010, Hite left Mutato Muzika to become a freelance composer. He now works from his personal studio where he continues to score many films, television shows, commercials and video games.
In 2013, Hite began a string of successful collaborations with artist and filmmaker John Herschend. Most notably he scored "Stories From the Evacuation", commissioned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and "Discussion Questions" for Whitney Biennial in 2014.
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