I was born in Los Angeles, California and for the most part I was raised on movie sets. My father (Frank Calvert) worked in the movie industry as a lead man. During my early college years I helped jump start the first student ran record label in the USA with Markus Burger entitled “Divercity Records”. I also had the opportunity to study under Wendel Yuponce a veteran film composer.

I continued my education at the Art Institute of San Francisco studying Media Arts, Design, and Animation. A year into my education I had the privilege of meeting of the happiest sound engineer on the planet. I just remember looking at graduates in my degree so unhappy and then seeing this guy frolicking to work so joyously. After a quarter of being in his class we decided to start a record label entitled ” ütmosis”. I helped co-found and manage the label for three years. We did amazingly well but in the end we had different visions on the future of music digitally. I left ütmosis to create my own label called BonsaiBeats.

Working slowly to build up BonsaiBeats I also I worked as a freelance secret agent for a digital think tank called Undercurrent. I had the privilege of working side by side (digitally) with the amazing Julia Roy. We spent six months researching and engaging several social networks. The company is located in New York but at the time I was still getting my feet wet in San Francisco, and I decided to stay in San Francisco because I loved it. In the summer of 2008 I took a position at coComment as Community Manager. Shortly after leaving coComment Disqus scooped me up. I currently help cultivate the Disqus community, a comment tool that empowers publishers to engage their users in a modern internet society.

During the evening hours I create music+animation for short films, television, commercials, and web shows.

And yeah… that’s me. Long storyshort, happiness began on the stem of a musical note. I still pursue it subconsciously. When I say pursue I mean this in the sense of “Walking down a dark alley following an exquisite sound, dubious of what may lie at the alley’s end”. (Very much like following Alice down the rabbit hole)

-G