

BRYON D. TURCOTTE
​• FOUNDER • OWNER • LEAD PRODUCER •
Bryon Turcotte has been creating with his heart, his mind, and his hands since he was 13 years old.
Experimenting with sound, multi-track recording, tape loops, and early analog synthesizers, Turcotte began to build a well of knowledge, technical understanding of music, and sound that he would tap into for the next four decades of his life. He grew to appreciate the relationship between music, film, and his love for everything creative as his life as a musician continued.
Born in Massachusetts in 1965, Turcotte set foot to become a student of human nature and of sonic chemistry. In addition to being a self -taught musician and avid music collector, he pursued an educational path in electrical and audio engineering building a long list of accomplishments as a technical professional during the beginnings of his adult life.
These skills helped him to sharpen his passion for music and the love of technology that would increase his strength as a composer and multimedia designer in years to come. 

Continually experimenting, he perfected his own recording methods in his home studio and began to put them into practice in his life as a performer and producer as he worked with other musicians.
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Turcotte began his career in music and played and toured professionally from 1984-1997. He also worked as a session and freelance musician between 1997 and 2002 performing with numerous bands in Boston and New York in-studio sessions and live stage performances. 


During this time, Turcotte served as an A&R scout for Road Runner Records and the Manager of A&R and Affiliate Relations for Dot Click, an online music marketing and community builder based in Boston. While at DotClick, Turcotte remained active as a music journalist, editor, and freelance writer – contributing to The Noise, Instant Magazine, and The Performer.
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As a musician, he collaborated and performed with artist and composer Michael MacDonald and bands Transom and Jupiter 88. Turcotte performed with both bands on bass until MacDonald's untimely death in 2000. 


His work as a film composer began in the independent short film “The River” by young Greek filmmaker Andrea Hadjcosti. Hadjcostis' translation of the short story Zitite Elpis by Antonis Samarakis captured Turcotte's attention and quickly began to influence his heart to begin his course in the direction of composing for film. Within a year he began working on other independent films leading him to a project for a cause with a very important purpose.
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Survivors Stories, a film used nationwide to alert educational institutions, parents, college-age students, and law enforcement agencies to the rising issue of rape at the college and university level became the next pallets for Turcotte's emotional support through his music. 

In the early part of 2003, he began working with independent filmmaker and director Kenneth Niblock to work on the musical score for the independent release of “Who Jacked Jimmy?”. Turcotte worked closely with Niblock on the film in its finishing stages.
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For the next 20 years, Turcotte composed music under the moniker “The Bandless Hands” and since 2004 has independently released three full-length albums. Each covers a wide range of musical styles including Folk, Rock, Electronica, Jazz, and Trance.
Using the experience and knowledge gained over a 30 year creative and technical career, Turcotte strives to continue his work as a supporter and activist for creative people everywhere.
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• TECHNICAL BACKGROUND •
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During the lifetime of his own company, Iron Tree Interactive, Turcotte has worked in professional roles at multiple organizations. Turcotte has built an impressive list of professional accomplishments over a span of four decades. In addition to being educated in several creative disciplines, his professional scope extends to Mechanical and Audio Engineering, Computer Science, Video/Audio Production, Digital Media, Graphic Design, along with both Technical Writing, Marketing and Communications.
As a technical professional, Turcotte has managed projects for numerous companies and has worked within multiple product development, hardware engineering, and multimedia production environments. His career in the technologies - primarily in information technology, application support, and multimedia development - has allowed him to serve a number of large corporate organizations, two large publishing companies, and a highly respected non-profit organization.
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Beginning in the mid1990s, Turcotte worked at Media 100 as Senior Peripheral Engineer evaluating and qualifying the Media 100 Editing System while maintaining successful partnerships with Apple, HP, Dell, and Rorke Data. He also served as a Senior Peripheral Engineer at ICE (Integrated Computing Engines) both developing and managing their first Hardware Qualifications department and was the author of their premier Peripheral guidebook.
In late December of 1999, along with three former Microsoft, Vivo, and Firefly business development architects, he helped create the DotClick Corporation - an internet start-up and precursor to both Facebook and YouTube - where his knowledge of the music industry, digital media, and content development helped them launch successfully to the world on January 1st, 2000.
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After the restructuring and sale of Dotclick, Turcotte moved on in 2001 to spend the next four years as the Digital Production Support Specialist for Emerson College in Boston, serving as the Multimedia, Video, and Audio Production/Software/Hardware expert and consultant for all Visual Media Arts, Journalism, Broadcast Journalism faculty, staff, and students. After some personal circumstances directed him to relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma in mid-2005, Turcotte regained his footing within the technology market first serving as the Logistics Manager at Atlas Computer, secondly as Desktop Support Supervisor at the Tulsa World newspaper, and then at PennWell Publishing until 2012.
At Pennwell he transistioned his career from the technologies to the editorial realm serving first as the Systems and Applications Specialist for the Information Technology department, and then with the editorial teams of two publications - Associate Editor for both Fire Engineering and Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment Magazines - spending most of his energy concentrating on the online presence of both brands. In February 2012 he was transitioned to Power Grid International magazine also serving as the Associate Editor.
Between 2013 and the present, Turcotte's career has slowly and steadily transformed into a solid foundation of impactful writing, creative content development, collaborative media production, effective marketing communications, and smart web design. Along with opening "Uncle Brown's Sound", his first commercial recording studio in 2016, and keeping busy as a film score composer, freelance writer, music journalist, and contributing editor on three magazines, he continued to work hard, evolve as a creative, and develop himself professionally over the next decade.
Turcotte moved forward steadily using his experience and skill set to learn and progress through his roles at several companies including, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists as a Multimedia Content Developer, OP5 as a Marketing Content Specialist, at both Bridge Crane Specialists and Victory Energy as Communications and Marketing Manager, at PNC Financial as an Content Developer and Implementation Specialist, and, most recently at Subimods, LLC. as Senior Content Writer, Managing Editor and Analyst.
During his somewhat demanding and whirlwind driven professional career and creative existence, no matter where he was employed or in what collection of projects he was immersed, Turcotte has always kept a sharp focus on the work as a creative human - his role and purpose as a musician, producer, and writer. It is now his purpose and goal to use his extensive experience, knowledge, and creative passion through Iron Tree Interactive to help his clients focus on growth, focus on success, and above all things, do quality work.
That is what real victory and it's true reward is all about.
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You can reach Bryon by email at bturcotte@irontreeinteractive.com
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