American music producer
Sebastian Arocha Morton(Sebastian Morton)
Born
United States Genres Occupation(s)
Producer
composer
songwriter
Years active 2000s–present Labels Website
www .rocasound .com
Musical artist
Sebastian Arocha Morton is a
Grammy -nominated American record producer and composer based in
Los Angeles ,
California . Throughout his career as a record producer and songwriter, Morton has worked with many notable artists, including
Seal ,
Sting ,
Santana ,
Donna Summer ,
[1]
Fischerspooner ,
Vikter Duplaix ,
Common , and
Mary J. Blige . Morton was also a composer and producer for the films
Little Miss Sunshine ,
Iron Man 2 ,
Houdini ,
[2]
RoboCop ,
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water ,
League of Gods ,
Mr. Robot , and
Young Sheldon .
Morton composes and fuses a wide variety of musical genres, ranging from
dance to
hip hop ,
soul and
ambient , among various other genres.
[3] His approach to film scoring bridges the worlds of modern electronic production and more traditional melodic orchestral composing.
[4]
Morton at the ROCAsound studio in 2019
Morton graduated from the
Berklee College of Music in
Boston , where he studied film scoring and production/engineering.
[5]
[6] Afterwards, he moved to
Los Angeles ,
California to pursue a career in the film and music industries as a staff writer for
Universal Music .
[7]
Morton then began producing electronic music in the early 2000s under the artist name ROCAsound. After several Billboard #1 singles and platinum albums, he started his own production company and opened a recording facility under the same name.
[8] As ROCAsound, he has remixed and produced tracks for the soundtrack to
Iron Man 2 , as well as songs and remixes for
Donna Summer ,
[9]
Sting ,
Chaka Khan ,
Seal ,
The Dandy Warhols ,
Counting Crows ,
Jody Watley ,
The Killers ,
Kaskade ,
Ricky Martin ,
Yuridia , and
Fischerspooner , among various other artists.
[5]
[3]
After much success as ROCAsound, Morton discovered and signed Billboard #1 electronic artist
Samantha James ,
[10]
[11]
[12] and went on to write and produce the albums
Subconscious and
Rise for San Francisco label
OM Records .
[13]
[14] Morton later worked on
Donna Summer 's final studio album
Crayons ,
where he was credited among producers such as
Greg Kurstin and
J.R. Rotem .
[15]
[16]
[17] The first single for that record, "
I'm a Fire " (produced and co-written by Morton), went to #1 on the charts and set a record for her as the only female artist in history with a #1 Billboard dance hit in every decade since the 1970s. Also, as a songwriter, Morton has worked closely with hit writers
Claudia Brant
[18] and
Bruce Sudano .
[19]
Other collaborations include:
[3]
Year
Title
Director(s)
Notes
1999
Los Beltrán
Mike Milligan
Composer
2000
Los Beltrán (Season 2)
Carlos Bermudez
Theme Song
2001
The Score
Frank Oz
Song: “The Hacker”
La Segunda Noche
Alejandro Gamboa
Executive Music Producer
2002
Boomtown
Graham Yost
With
W.G. Snuffy Walden
Anna's Dream
Colin Bickley
Songwriter
2003
Elysium
Jae-Woong Kwon
Composer
Knock First
David Collins
Composer
Miss Match
Darren Star
Music Producer, Songwriter
2005
Americano
Kevin Noland
Composer
Cold Case
Jerry Bruckheimer
Music Programmer, Sound Designer
Queer Eye for the Straight Girl
David Collins
Composer
2006
Dr. Dolittle 3
Rich Thorne
Musical Director, Producer
Windfall
Laurie McCarthy
Main Theme Composer
What About Brian
Dana Stevens
Music Programmer, Sound Designer
Peaceful Warrior
Victor Salva
Additional Music with composer
Bennett Salvay
Little Miss Sunshine
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
Music Producer, Remixer
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
David Collins
Composer
Starting Over
Alex Miltsch
Guest Music Producer
2007
The Air I Breathe
Jieho Lee
with composer
Marcelo Zarvos
The Unit
David Mamet
Score Producer
CSI: New York
Ann Donahue
Electronic Music Producer
2008
What Just Happened
Barry Levinson
with composer
Marcelo Zarvos
CSI: Miami
Carol Mendelsohn
Source Music
Life with Derek
Daphne Ballon
Songwriter
Shark
Ian Biederman
Songwriter
2010
Iron Man 2
Jon Favreau
Electronic Music Programmer, Sound Designer
Terriers
Ted Griffin
with
Robert Duncan
The Cutting Edge: Fire and Ice
Stephen Herek
Music Programmer, Sound Designer
2011
Carjacked
John Bonito
with
Bennett Salvay
Disney World of Color
Disney Parks
with
John Debney
2012
Bachelorette
Leslye Headland
Music Producer
Alex Cross
Rob Cohen
with
John Debney
Mario Frangoulis : Live with the
Boston Pops
Matt Askem
Composer: “Rojo Violento”
Cybergeddon
Anthony E. Zuiker
Music Programmer, Sound Designer
Fringe
J. J. Abrams
Song: “Angel Love”
2013
King John
Ted Wass
Composer
2014
RoboCop
Jose Padilha
with
Pedro Bromfman
Draft Day
Ivan Reitman
with
John Debney
Houdini
Uli Edel
Composer
Matador
Jay Beattie
Soundtrack Producer
Partners
Robert Horn
Music Programmer
The After
Chris Carter
Composer
2015
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Paul Tibbitt
with
John Debney
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Sam Levine
Music Remixer
American Odyssey
Nora Kay Foster
Composer
Minions: Paradise
Miriam Wilson
Video Game
2016
League of Gods
Koan Hui
Co-Composer with
John Debney , Soundtrack Producer
Fuller House
Jeff Franklin
Electronic Music Producer
Game of Silence
David Hudgins
Composer
Mr. Robot
Sam Esmail
with
Bennet Salvay
The Grand Tour
Phil Churchward
Composer
2017
Deep
Julio Soto Gurpide
Music Producer
Young Sheldon
Chuck Lorre
Composer, Additional Music
Linda from HR
Jeff Barbanell
Composer
2018
Augie
James Keach
Composer
Evidence of Innocence
Robert Ivkovic
Composer
Reasonable Doubt
Rob Rosen
Songwriter
The Orville (Season 1)
Seth MacFarlane
Music Producer, Additional Music
2019
The Orville (Season 2)
Seth MacFarlane
Music Producer, Additional Music
Madden NFL 19
Mike Young
with
John Debney
Marvel Land : Summer of Superheroes
Disney Imagineering
Music Producer, Additional Music
Some of Morton's
Grammy Award nominations include:
2006 Grammy nominee:
Little Miss Sunshine (Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media)
2007 Grammy nominee (with
Vikter Duplaix ): "Make A Baby" (Best Urban/Alternative Category)
[23]
Billboard #1 Singles and Albums include:
^
"ROCAsound" . Soul Interviews . August 26, 2013. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^ Con, Eduardo (17 August 2014).
"Houdini Volume 1 & 2, Detalles" . Asturscore . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
a
b
c
"Sebastian Arocha Morton: Composer, Producer, Remixer" . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^ Rychner, Lorenz (May 2009).
"Sebastian Arocha Morton: From songwriter to producer to remixer" (PDF) . Recording Magazine . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
a
b
"Sebastian Arocha Morton" . Sequential . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^ Kaiser, Uli.
"Sebastian Arocha Morton" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
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"Roca steady" (PDF) . Audiopro International Magazine . June 2010. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
"Press" . ROCAsound . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
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"The Queen Is Back" (PDF) . Club World Magazine . 2008. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^ Matthew, Terry (January 13, 2011).
"Samantha James: The 5 Magazine Interview" . 5Mag . Chicago. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
"Dance-PopDivas" (PDF) . Billboard Magazine . August 2007. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^ Rychner, Lorenz (March 2011).
"An Interview with Sebastian Arocha Morton" (PDF) . Recording Magazine . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
"Interview with Samantha James" (PDF) . About.com . October 2007. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^ Guerrero, Ivan (August 18, 2010).
"Get 'Subconscious' with Samantha James" . Male Model Music Project . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^ Wilkane, Christian John (14 July 2008).
"Donna Summer: Crayons" . Pop Matters . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
"Exciting News! Donna's final studio album, 'CRAYONS', is to be reissued by Driven By The Music/Crimson" . The Donna Summer fan club . April 1, 2016. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^ Slomowicz, Ron (April 28, 2019).
"Top Dance Songs of 2009" . LiveAbout . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
"Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame: Claudia Brant" . d.baron . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^ Wikane, Christian John (28 Sep 2010).
"Sudano 360: An Interview with Bruce Sudano" . Pop Matters . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
"Pushing Audio to the Extreme" . Pro Sound News . June 2007. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
a
b Schweiger, Daniel (February 4, 2015).
"Interview with John Debney" . Film Music Magazine . Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
^
a
b
"104 original songs in 2012 OSCAR race" . Hollywood News . Dec 10, 2012. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
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"National GRAMMY Career Day" . Grammy Awards . Dec 2, 2014. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
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"The Singer and The Song: Going for the Perfect Match" (PDF) . Recording Magazine (NAMM Edition 2012) . 2012. Retrieved 2019-10-15 .
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