Douglas Pipes is a film music composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 whose best known work to date is the 2006 soundtrack to Monster House

Monster House (film)

Monster House is a 2006 computer animated motion capture horror/comedy film produced by ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Executive produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, this is the first time since Back to the Future Part III that they have...

. His loud, brassy instrumentations have drawn comparisons to action-music composer guru Alan Silvestri

Alan Silvestri

Alan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer and conductor.-Career:Silvestri is best known for his collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis, having scored Romancing the Stone , the Back to the Future trilogy , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Death Becomes Her , Forrest Gump , Contact ,...

 and his other orchestral-music composer counterparts Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino is an American composer who has composed scores for movies, television series and video games. Some of his most notable works include the scores to television series such as Lost, Alias and Fringe, games such as the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty series, and films such as...

, J.A.C. Redford and Joel McNeely

Joel McNeely

-Biography:Joel McNeely was born in Madison, Wisconsin. Both of his parents were involved in music and theater, and as a child he played the piano, saxophone, bass, and flute...

. His chance encounter with Gil Kenan

Gil Kenan

Gil Kenan is a British-American-Israeli film director. Kenan received his MFA degree from the UCLA Film School in 2002.-Life and career:...

 at UCLA California made him the perfect composer for this astounding
soundtrack and composed the music on his short film The Lark.

Douglas grew up in Anaheim near Disneyland, and played in a number of local bands in Orange County, California

Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...

. These include the Wahdels, the Instigators, and Pipes & Drums.

His most recent work is the score of the recent horror film Trick 'r Treat

Trick 'r Treat

Trick 'r Treat is a 2007 American horror film written and directed by Michael Dougherty, and based on his short film Season's Greetings. Originally slated for an October 5, 2007 release, it was announced in September 2007 that the film had been pushed back. Warner Bros...

.

Credits

• Bad Blood Days (2010) (original score music)
• City of Ember (2008) (additional music composer, writer and performer: Mayor's Fanfare)
• Trick 'r Treat
  Trick 'r Treat
  Trick 'r Treat is a 2007 American horror film written and directed by Michael Dougherty, and based on his short film Season's Greetings. Originally slated for an October 5, 2007 release, it was announced in September 2007 that the film had been pushed back. Warner Bros...
  
  (2007) (original score composer)
• Monster House
  Monster House
  Monster House is a Discovery Channel television program that documented the themed remodeling of a residence in a five-day time frame...
  
  (2006) (original score composer)
• The Three Body Problem (2004) (composer)
• Walter (2003) (composer)
• The Lark (2002) (original music)
• Grandpa (1990) (composer)
• Bonneville, Arizona (1989) (composer)
• Moonstalker
  Moonstalker
  Moonstalker is a Independent Film/slasher/suspense movie. It is directed by Michael O'Rourke and stars Blake Gibbons, John Marzilli and Kelly Mullis.-Plot :...
  
  (1989) (original music)

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