Jeremy Thal
Chicago-based composer and community arts educator with 20+ years of experience designing and facilitating participatory music programs across juvenile detention facilities, hospitals, and refugee camps.
About
Chicago-based composer and community arts educator with 20+ years of experience designing and facilitating participatory music programs across juvenile detention facilities, hospitals, and refugee camps. Trained in ethnomusicology, fluent in English and Spanish, and deeply committed to building music-based community spaces where people co-create.
Co-founder of Found Sound Nation and OneBeat, supporting cross-cultural collaboration and social impact through creative residencies and original music production. Also composes and integrates audio for narrative and interactive media, including Unreal Engine projects and award-nominated podcasts.
- 28 years' experience
- Joined July 2026
Skills· 17
Languages
- Spanish; CastilianFluent
- ChineseAdvanced
- EnglishFluent
Industry experience
- Education
- Media & Entertainment
- Non-Profit Organization
- Government
- Professional Services
- Other
- Healthcare
- Gaming
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Work experience· 14 roles
Independent music production house; lead composer for Spirit Crossing (Spry Fox), a large-scale cozy life-sim MMO; manage cross-disciplinary collaboration across artists, developers, and audio directors.
Co-founded Lost Cousins Music, an independent music production house; co-lead composer for Spirit Crossing (Spry Fox), a cozy open-world MMO, with music composition and technical integration in Unreal Engine 5.
Post-production audio for award-winning and nominated podcasts, including Can You Dig It? (Signal Silver), Black Cowboys (Ambie nominee), Trust Fall (Ambie winner), and The Coldest Case (Signal/Audie nominee).
Education
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