Obviously, we make music. For commercial applications, mostly. But if that’s all we did, we wouldn’t be doing what our clients have come to expect from us. No matter what specific service from this list we might be providing, what we really do is solve problems. Marketing and advertising problems. Production problems. Lack-of-focus and too-many-ideas problems. We use our minds and our ears to create solutions that sing.

Bring us in early and see how much Gravity can add to the creative process.

  

Services We Provide:
• Songs for advertising
• Commercial post-scoring
• Scoring for long form video and documentaries
• Sound design and SFX creation
• Radio advertising – scripting, casting and production
• Songs for special events (conferences and conventions)
• In-store and on-hold audio


    Jim Bordner — Composer/Producer

After attending the Jordan College of Music at Butler University, Jim went on the road as a solo act, playing and singing in Holiday Inn lounges. Tired of the road, he took a temporary job as an advertising copywriter and broadcast producer. Temporary became nearly 15 years.

He wrote commercial music throughout his advertising career, winning a couple of national awards in the process. From 1986 through 1989 he also worked as the founder, director and chief writer of The Renaissance Radio Theater, winning a "Best Drama" award at the 1988 International Radio Festival.

He opened Gravity Music in of March of 1994, moonlighting from his agency job until January 1995, when he devoted himself to composition and songwriting full time. Since then, he's written jingles and show songs, and scored film and video for a wide range of local, regional and national clients.

In addition to his commercial music work, Jim occasionally works as a producer for singers and songwriters, and has served as a contributing columnist for Keyboard magazine on the subject of small studio business as well as writing the popular monthly Guest Room Warrior column for EQ, a respected trade magazine for recording engineers. 		 
   
  Lisa Bordner — Project Manager

For Lisa, writing the great American novel and playing with Sally (the studio dog) has to take a back seat to crunching the numbers and managing the business details.  We're pretty lucky to have her, too; she keeps the creatives from wandering around aimlessly, saying things like:  “Time sheets?  We don’t need no stinking time sheets!”
 
Lisa has spent 14 years in business administration and accounting — organizing the world so that it can run a little better and a little smoother.  The past five years have been spent at Gravity Music building on these same talents and developing a few new ones.  If there is something that needs to be tracked or organized, Lisa is there with a smile (and coffee).  
 
Lisa is also attending college and volunteering her talents for the benefit of a local Senior Information Fair that she helped create.   She helps raise money for the fair, organizes details, writes ad copy, buys media, and has even done the layout and design of their print advertisments.
 
Why do these things when there are so many mountaintops to sit upon?  Here’s her favorite quote:

Ring the bells that still will ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in

                           --Leonard Cohen
   

Aiden Michael — Marketing Specialist/Electronic Music Composer

The combination of house DJ and marketing man may seem unusual, but for the Gravity Music team, Aiden's skill set is exactly what the doctor ordered. Truly the jack-of-all-trades, Aiden wears a number of hats at Gravity. While he primarily serves a marketing capacity, seeking out new business and designing the majority of the company's marketing materials, his knowledge of computers has made him our one-man IT department, keeping our machines operating smoothly and single-handedly designing this web site.

Additionally, his passion for electronic dance music and understanding of music production has made him a valuable composer as well. Aiden's slammin' drum machine loops and euro-flavored synth programming have been ideally suited for a number of past projects.

Aiden is currently seeking his business marketing degree with plans to pursue his MBA. He joined the staff in the summer of 2004 and will hopefully be around for some time to come.