Brian Bond
producer, mixer & songwriter
Brian Bond is a San Francisco-based producer, mixer, songwriter, guitarist, and post-production mixer with over twenty years of experience making records.
For inquries regarding production, mixing, and recording, get in touch.
SELECT DISCOGRAPHY
A Nave Espacial — Exactly Where
Milky Mountain Studio
My studio space features multiple tracking rooms, inspiring views, and thoughtfully curated instruments and gear, located in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
Post-Production
MIXING FOR PICTURE
As a post-production mixer, I work on commercials and documentary films. Here are a few recent selected projects:
Ethnomusicology
MUSIC RESEARCH
My ethnomusicological research focuses on Sufi music of South Asia. For my PhD dissertation (2020), I did a year and a half of ethnographic research on Sindhi-language Sufi poetry performance in Kachchh, Gujarat (western India), a border district adjacent to Sindh, Pakistan. The dissertation, entitled “A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat” is a study of how poetry performance, especially of poetry by Shāh ‘Abdul Latīf Bhiṭā’ī (1689–1752 CE) has served as a means for the transmission of Islamic/ethical teachings in rural Muslim communities in Kachchh. I examine the role of emotion and affective practices in knowledge transmission, as well as Islamic reformist critiques of musical practice. In total, I’ve spent about three years in India since 2005, most of that time studying music and languages (Urdu, Hindi, Sindhi, Kachchhi, Punjabi). You can watch more videos I’ve made of Sindhi music in Kachchh, Gujarat on my YouTube channel.