BIOGRAPHY
Peter Valsamis is a Los Angeles-based composer, drummer, music producer, and award-winning sound designer specializing in games and film. With over 25 years of experience, he has created music and led audio teams for titles including Transformers, Star Trek, Battleship, Jeopardy, and Wheel of Fortune. A skilled percussionist, Peter blends jazz, improvisation, and electronic influences into a signature sound. He holds an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College and teaches music for film and games at Oregon State University.
DISCOGRAPHY
Little Church, Josef Leimberg, A.K. Toney, Miguel Atwood-Feruson, MonoNeon (Alpha Pup) 2025
Fluttered Thinking, Jerry Blue (Sucata Tapes) 2022
Cancer In The Soft Breeze, Porest (Discrepant) 2021
Le Pendu, Trance Mission (Trance Mission SF) 2020
Visions Of The Void, Red Fiction (Tzadik) 2020
Stir, Yves Charuest, Agusti Fernandez, Nicolas Caloia, Peter Valsamis (tour de bras) 2017
Blaak Heat, The Arabian Fuzz (Svart Records) 2017
Angle of Vision, Dana Reason (482 Music) 2013
Pure Jam, John Acer 2011
Pictures of Tuva, Chirgilchin (Pure Nature Music) 2008
Two Rooms Of Uranium Inside 83 markers, MOE! Staiano's MOE!KESTRA! (Edgetone Records) 2007
Tourrorists!, Porest (Abduction Records) 2006
Akitu, Walter Aziz (East Jam) 2006
Live, Sound on Survival (Henceforth) 2005
ImagiNation Club, Eda Maxym (Family Tree) 2005
Collectible, Chirgilchin (Pure Nature Music) 2005
American Roadwork, Sound on Survival (Lisle Ellis, Marco Eneidi, Peter Valsamis) - (CIMP) 2004
Amalgam(e), Compilation, (Red Toucan Records) 2004
Around About Now, Jack West and Curvature (Ahead Behind Music) 2003
this is, or-if-is (h-machine) 2003
Two forms of Multitudes, MOE! Staiano's MOE!KESTRA! (DKM, pax, Edgetone) 2003
In My Heart, Win Marcinak, 2003
here, Trance Mission (independent) 2002
Oil and Water, Stephen Kent (Intuition) 2002
Configurations 2002, Jim Ryan's Forward Energy (Edgetone Records) 2002
Talking Drum, Chris Brown (Sonore) 2001
ThreeFor, Rick Starbuck 2001
Away, Walter Aziz (East Jam Records) 2001
SoundScrolls, S. Eric Scribner (KL5 Records) 2001
Moving Into Love, Win Marcinak (Burning Tyger Music) 2001
The Lateness of Yearly Presentations, MOE! Staiano (DKM, Amanita) 2001
Sonya D, Sonya D, 2001
Please Come Down, James Combs (Ubiquity) 2001
Che, Tommy Chavez 2000
A Day Out Of Time, Trance Mission (City of Tribes) 1999
As We Know It, Jack West and Curvature (Ahead Behind Music) 1999
Busy Thoughts, Peter Valsamis 1999
Sound Box 2.0, Compilation (Kiasma) 1999
Tracks, Mick Diener 1998
Chronic Bliss, Mitch Tobias 1998
PEERING OVER, Tom Nunn's edgewalker experimental instruments consort (Ramp Records) 1998
subrealto protoplasto, Sean Paul Zitello (eiei/o media) 1998
Whose forest?, NOMA (Hornblower recordings) 1998
Change, Walter Aziz (W/A) 1998
Audio Alchemy 2, Square (with Paul Scriver) (Ubiquity) 1997
Border Crossings, Dana Reason Peter Valsamis duo (Red Toucan) 1997
The Event Horizon,Trance Mission (city of tribes) 1997
Live at the Yellow Room, Forward Energy (jimzeen productions) 1997
Remix Project, Better Daze (Ubiquity) 1997
Bouzouki Party Pack Vol. 1 (independent) 1996
Word Up, Compilation (Virgin music) 1995
Kumbaya Album Nineteen Ninety Four, Compilation (Sony Music) 1994