At least musician and media professional Emile Menasché can never say he's bored. Whether it's researching indigenous music while composing a film score (most recently the Academy Award nominated documentary short INCIDENT IN NEW BAGHDAD), recording solo projects like OVERTONES, playing with his improvisational acoustic duo THRUMMERS, penning pop songs for his band SPEAK THE LANGUAGE, or writing and editing for IN TUNE MONTHLY magazine (where he serves as editor-in-chief), Menasché always has an interesting or challenging project in front of him.

The author of four books on music production and sound (YOUR SOUND ONSTAGE, THE DESKTOP STUDIO, HOME STUDIO CLINIC, and HOW TO DO EVERYTHING WITH GARAGEBAND), Menasché has learned that the ability to write about music has made him a better musician—and being an active player and composer makes him a more effective journalist. "I used to think of music and journalism as two separate things," he says. "But once I started working on films—especially documentaries—I realized that having both skills gave me more ways to communicate. Being able to understand a story makes my music more effective; being so directly involved in a range of music projects helps me get more insightful information when interviewing artists and music business people for the magazine. Being able to explain how music technology works helps me think about the best ways to use the tools I have available to me in the studio."

Menasché has contributed artist profiles, product reviews, and how-to pieces to Guitar World, Electronic Musician, EQ, Keyboard, New Jersey Monthly, and many other publications. As In Tune's editorial director, Menasché also helped launch—and now oversees—the publishing company's books division, edits Drum Corps International magazine, and contributes a technology section to ASCAP's Playback magazine. For In Tune, he's interviewed everyone from supporting players like roadies and managers to superstar performers like Zac Brown, Carrie Underwood, Jason Mraz, Ryan Tedder, Randy Newman, and many more.

No matter what he's working on, a guitar is usually within reach. He regularly produces and appears in demonstration videos for intunemonthly.com as well as for Epiphone guitars and, starting in the spring of 2012, a series of videos for eHow.com based on his book Home Studio Clinic.

In addition to 2011's Tribeca Film Festival winner and Oscar nominee Incident in New Baghdad, Menasché has scored feature documentaries like AMERICAN FARM and OUR ISLAND HOME, the feature film PARALLEL SONS, and many shorts and educational films.

Menasché is a graduate of NYU's Tish School of the Arts Dramatic Writing Program, where he studied under Academy Award nominated screenwriter Venable Herndon.

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Composer, guitarist, producer, and journalist Emile Menasché has been using computers to make music for more than 20 years on projects ranging from feature film scores to solo acoustic guitar albums. A veteran contributor to Electronic Musician, Guitar World, Future Music USA, PC Magazine, and others, Emile is currently the Editor-in-Chief of In Tune Monthly, an educational music magazine for teens, and is the author of Home Studio Clinic and What’s a Signal Processor? (both Hal Leonard). You can reach him at menaschemedia.com and blogspot.thedesktopstudio.com.