Career
Cockerham also is a composer, arranger and musician in musical groups out of Brooklyn, New New York Cockerham holds a Bachelor"s from Baylor University in music composition, and a graduate degree from New York University"s Music Business (MUBG-Master of Arts) - Master of Arts Program. They later joined The Orchard working for founders Richard Gottehrer and Scott Cohen, to implement innovative global licensing, revenue and marketing opportunities for musicians and labels. Cockerham also managed day-to-day music licensing for film, television advertising, and royalties collections.
In 2006, he co-produced Hard Rock International"s SERVE2 project – a compilation album featuring previously unreleased tracks from Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Joss Stone and other influential artists – to benefit WhyHunger, distributed through The Orchard via iTunes.
In 2007, Cockerham and Sullivan parlayed their first-hand knowledge for simplifying the complex process of United States. copyright compliance to found RighstFlow, also providing support for online entities including Muzak, The Orchard, Civil Defense Baby, and DiskMakers. Google acquired RightsFlow in 2011 in order to streamline music royalties processes for its YouTube platform.
In 2014 Cockerham and Sullivan, together with YouTube"s Scott Sellwood, formed a new company called Source3, which helps aggregate and simplify rights management and distribution of 3D content. While attending New York University, Cockerham began establishing himself as a composer for film, television, and video games with fellow graduate student Nathan Madsen, and formed his own indie rock band,, after placing a Craigslist ad and auditioning trumpeter/harmonica player Frank Vigilante, also a key grip for major music videos and film.
Cockerham fronts the band on vocals and guitar, as heard on the 2009 LP Get Hit in Your Soul, and 2012 European Parliament The Last of the Natural Light.
Cockerham met classically trained percussionist Britton Matthews, also a native Texan with a music degree from Baylor University in New York City in 2004 through Facebook. They toured in 2012 with Drunken Barn Dance, an alt-folk band helmed by attorney/musician Scott Sellwood and released an all-original album Raise A Glass Broken Land in 2013. Later that year Cockerham debuted an European Parliament of instrumental jazz recordings as bandleader, pianist, composer, and arranger of his 9-piece troupe, titled The World You’re in Is Perfect, heavily influenced by the Gil Evans-Miles Davis collaborations of the 1950s & "60s.
The group began to perform publicly in New York City in 2014, and features session horn players Joe Ancowitz and Geoff Countryman who also appeared on Ghostface Killah"s 2014 album 36 Seasons.
