Len Haynes

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Biography

Professor Len Haynes brings over 30 years of multimedia production and audio industry experience to Sonoma State University. Len has had a well-established career as a music producer, audio engineer, songwriter and electronic musician based in Los Angeles. Over the decades, Len recorded, mixed, collaborated, produced and/or performed with an eclectic variety of artists across musical genres including: Lydia Lunch, Nik Turner (Hawkwind), Damo Suzuki (CAN), Simon House (David Bowie, Hawkwind), Brainticket, DJ Me DJ You, Nels Cline (Wilco), and Gary Numan among others.

Len's songwriting compositions have been featured in various television shows, documentaries and motion pictures worldwide including the original TV series Queer Eye (2005), and the motion pictures: Ocean's 8 (2018), The Babysitters (2007), and Two Drifters (2005) to name a few.

Len's technical and creative work in video production displays a diverse range of projects. Len directed and edited music videos for several independent music artists in Los Angeles and was a videographer for the California music retail chain Amoeba Music for which he shot multiple episodes of their award- winning web series What’s In My Bag? as well as many live in-store musical performances.

Len teaches both production and theory courses in audio production, video production, multi-camera television production, mass communication, media literacy, media aesthetics, and mass media research at Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, Santa Rosa Junior College, and Los Medanos College. He holds a Master of Arts and a B.A. in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts from San Francisco State University, as well as an Associate of Arts in Cinema/TV Production from Los Angeles City College.