John Yentes is an accomplished multi instrumentalist musician with a keen and eager interest to design audio for both games and film.  John became inspired at an early age by the likes of Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu and continued to find their influence in his own musical creations.

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John

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CHANGING MODES :
Wendy Griffiths: Vocals, Keyboards, Bass 
Grace Pulliam: Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion
Yuzuru Sadashige: Bass, Guitar, vocals 
Timur Yusef: Drums, Vocals 

 The music of New York City based rock band, Changing Modes, began quietly in the mid-90’s when the principal songwriter of the band, Wendy Griffiths (vocals, keyboards, bass) started making her “bedroom tapes.” She says she had no intention of making these songs public. “They were like art songs with very unusual rock beats,” Yuzuru Sadashige (bass, guitar) recalls. “She programmed very complex layers of accompaniment on her Yamaha SY77, then sang along to record onto her $30 Sears tape recorder, very LoFi, you would hear house noise and car horns in the background, but they were extremely interesting and totally unique.”  
Lucid Culture (www.lucidculture.wordpress.com) describes their music very well: "New York art-rockers Changing Modes leap from one radically dissimilar style to another with gusto, guile and a tunefulness that won’t quit. Blending classical flourishes, punk energy, playful and clever lyrics that draw on 80s new wave and a ubiquitous element of surprise, every time you think you’ve got them figured out, they drop something new on you."  

In 2012, the band played NXNE in Toronto and also won M.E.A.N.Y Fest that year.  They also are regulars at the International Pop Overthrow Festival, and tour the Northeast regularly. 

The band has released seven albums and two EPs and have been actively performing their strangely catchy and complex music in New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Charlottesville, Philadelphia Toronto and Washington D.C.  The band has performed alongside The Ditty Bops, Brandi Carlile, Howie Day and King Missile.

Currently a Solo Artist, BOBBY KANE has played and hosted Open Mics in the heart of Greenwich Village, NY. He has done everything from playing half hour Mini Shows to Four Hour Solo Gigs in various Bars and Venues in and around New York. He has even rocked some famous stages like NYC's own CAFE WHA?!.

Photo by Holly Danger: www.hollydanger.com

Yuzuru Sadashige - Composer

Yuzuru Sadashige was born in Japan.  He received awards and honors from the Society for New Music, Vienna Modern Masters and The Percussive Arts Society.  He was a composer-in-residence for the American Chamber Music Festival at Edsvik, Sweden in summer 1999.   He has written music for Actors’ Company Theatre, choreographer/dancer Mei-Yin Ng.  Film score for an independent film ANA: Portrait in Days (directed by Liselle Mei) received the Best Original Film Score for the New York University First Run Festival. 
“Third Tribe” for flute, djembe drum and piano was recorded by Alejandro Escuer on Quindecim Recordings. He is an electric bassist /guitarist/songwriter of art/alternative rock band Changing Modes which has released seven albums (www.changingmodes.com).

Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/JohnHartmann/

Contact: csc@johnhartmann.net

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

"What occurs in the world is that everyone who is born, is born, in some manner of speaking, a poet, the creator of something that did not exist in the world before, till they were born. It is entirely individual.
Man is not born to work, Man is born to create, to be that poet at random. And give to the world his own particular message, to realize the work that can be done and because he is unique, his work will be the only one of the kind in the world." - Agostinho da Silva


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