Background
Alan Howarth grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.
Alan Howarth grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.
Playing music in local rock bands, he opened for national touring acts including The Who and The Cream. He then began to create original music in bands Braino and Pi Corporation, using synthesizers. From 1976 he provided synthesizer support for fusion jazz band Weather Report, which relocated him to Los Los Angeles
His main career break came in 1979, when he met the sound effects team for Star Trek The Motion Picture, and was taken on as a sound designer for the following six Star Trek films.
Howarth performs his film scores in live concert to excerpts from the films, and has performed in Geneva, Krakow, Saint St. Petersburg, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London and Paris. Howarth pioneered immersive multi-channel surround sound systems with Steven Taylor"s "Dimension Audio" that included the early prototype theatrical 48.4 systems that are now known as Dolby Atmos and DTS sound immersion.
His current research has resulted in founding of Research Associate Music, which holds several worldwide patents for the conversion of standard musical recordings into tunings of the Natural Frequency Spectrum as defined by nature, science and ancient architecture. This technology currently applies to body, mind and spirit enhancement.