Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, So we're joined tonight with Dave Porter, who is the composer of the music that you hear on our favorite television show Breaking Bad.

Welcome to the podcast Dave.

Thank you very much. I was great to be here.

I wanted to start off and I try to do these interviews the same way with you telling us this a bit about yourself, how you got your start in the music

business and in the entertainment business.

Sure.

Yeah, I grew up in a musical family, although no one else in my family's professional musician.

I grew up playing a lot of instruments when I was young, started piano, classical piano, when I was very, very young, five.

And was one of those kids that, I grew up in Maryland outside of DC and was one of those kids that tri tripped up and down the East Coast playing piano recitals and doing competitions and stuff like that.

And I think my parents never imagined it would be a career. They just thought it was something I was I was good at and enjoyed and but then I

started getting into writing my own music I guess in high school

dabbling in computers and my own music, I guess in high school,

dabbling in computers and synthesizers and technology.

And then went to Sarah Lawrence College,

which is outside of New York City,

a small liberal arts school where I was able to really get into

creating music for a lot of different mediums, not just film but modern dance and theater and I've

always loved the impact that music can have and the it has, working with other kinds of art.

And I think that's when I just sort of had a feeling that maybe there was a way I could make a living doing this and pursued from there.

Moved into New York City after college and started my career working in Philip Glass's studio, which is in downtown Manhattan.

If you're not familiar with Philip, Philip is a very well-known classical American composer, who's known for doing very minimalist stuff and doing a lot of work for film and other medium.

It was a great place for me to kind of get my feet wet and get started.

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