Greg Maloney

Sound as
a life's work.

Greg Maloney is an immersive experience creator, psychoacoustic composer, and spatial audio designer whose 20-year career spans Hollywood's elite scoring environments and the emerging frontier of therapeutic and installation art. As Score Production Assistant at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions and as Technical Music Supervisor for Danny Elfman across 30+ major films — including Avengers: Age of Ultron, Alice in Wonderland, and Iris for Cirque du Soleil — he developed a command of large-scale sound architecture that now defines his practice.

Today that practice operates at the convergence of data science, ancient cosmological wisdom, and immersive technology. The question driving everything: what does sound unlock in the human body when given the right architecture?

Greg Maloney
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Why Sound

You can close your eyes. You can't close your ears. Hearing has no shutter and no off switch — it runs while you sleep. And sound isn't only a signal the mind decodes; it's a physical wave, moving through tissue and bone. It reaches the body before the thinking mind has a chance to weigh in. You don't decide to hear.

Drawing on twenty years of psychoacoustic craft — the same principles used to carry an emotional arc across two hours of cinema — the work designs audio environments that produce real, physiological shifts: in the nervous system, in consciousness, in how a person inhabits their own body.

The nervous system answers to rhythm before it answers to meaning — a slow, steady pulse settles the body toward calm the same way a slowing heartbeat does; a coordinated sound field pulls scattered attention into focus the way a shared beat pulls a room of dancers into sync. Add the felt weight of low frequency against skin and bone, and sound stops being background. It becomes a direct line to the body's own regulatory systems.

This isn't sound healing as a genre. It's applied acoustic engineering with therapeutic intent. The format serves the experience, and the experience changes the body.

"This isn't sound healing as a genre. It's applied acoustic engineering with therapeutic intent."
Psychoacoustics

The science of how sound affects the brain, nervous system, and body — applied at production level, not just in theory.

Spatial Audio

360-degree and three-dimensional sound design — binaural, ambisonics, and immersive formats applied to healing environments, wellness programs, and experiential installation.

Immersive Design

Rooms and experiences built to do something specific to the people inside them — not just sound good, but shift state.

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The Foundation

Hollywood scoring stage
Remote Control Productions — Hans Zimmer
Score Production Assistant

Working alongside Trevor Morris and Heitor Pereira at Hans Zimmer's studio in Los Angeles. Training ground for large-scale orchestral scoring and the discipline required to operate at the highest level of the industry.

The Dark Knight  ·  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Danny Elfman — 30+ Productions
Technical Music Supervisor

Seven years managing the complete technical music pipeline across 30+ major film and television productions — from first notes to final mix. A rare role bridging the creative and technical at the highest level of the industry.

Alice in Wonderland  ·  Avengers: Age of Ultron  ·  Silver Linings Playbook  ·  Iris (Cirque du Soleil)
Dominant Resonance
Composer  ·  Spatial Audio Designer  ·  Immersive Artist

The same craft — precision, spatial awareness, the ability to track emotional arcs across time — now applied to immersive wellness environments, therapeutic audio programs, and large-scale experiential art. Where the technical and the transcendent converge.

Current Practice

The foundation was built inside Hollywood's most demanding audio environments — composing and mix suites, scoring stages and production studios, where standards are set by the films that define culture.

That chapter isn't closed. The same craft that scored for cinema, television, and multimedia now goes into original music written for the nervous system as much as the ear — and into the rooms, pods, and installations designed to carry it.

Immersive spatial audio room

Where the technical and the transcendent converge.

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Selected Credits

Film & Television
  • The Dark Knight
    The Dark Knight Score Production · Remote Control / Hans Zimmer
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Score Production · Remote Control / Hans Zimmer
  • Alice in Wonderland
    Alice in Wonderland Technical Music Supervisor · Danny Elfman
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron
    Avengers: Age of Ultron Technical Music Supervisor · Danny Elfman
  • Silver Linings Playbook
    Silver Linings Playbook Technical Music Supervisor · Danny Elfman
  • Iris — Cirque du Soleil
    Iris — Cirque du Soleil Technical Music Supervisor · Danny Elfman
Installations & Experiences
  • Heal Sound Meditation Pods Director of Experience · Google HQ Installation
  • Cosmic Sonification System Creator · LACMA Art + Technology Lab Submission
  • Creative Recovery LA Director of Creative Experience
  • KundaDance Composer · Somatic Movement
  • Guided Meditation Scoring Live Composer · ZeroPoint Earth
In Development
  • Rhythmic Breath Journeys Composer
  • 50-Year Immersive Retrospective Souls in Drag · January 2027
  • Sacred Geometry / Spatial Audio Series Creator · YouTube
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Press & Recognition

The Fight Magazine  ·  October 2024
Where Art Meets Healing

Featured alongside Creative Recovery LA founder Cory B. Savage — exploring the intersection of creativity, sound, and addiction recovery.

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EIN Presswire  ·  March 2026
Google Deploys SoundHeal Sensory Support for Staff Well-being

Heal's immersive sound meditation pods, with Greg Maloney as Director of Experience, installed at Google headquarters for staff wellness.

Read the release →
EIN Presswire  ·  August 2025
First-of-Its-Kind Sensory Intervention Program Announced in California Juvenile Hall

Heal's pod technology — backed by a $570K California state innovation grant — installed at SLO County Juvenile Hall. 96% of participants reported consistent well-being support.

Read the release →

Alumni Recognition  ·  UMass Lowell

UMass Lowell Class Notes
UMass Lowell Alumni Magazine
Class Notes Feature

Recognized for work as Technical Music Supervisor for Danny Elfman, including the Cirque du Soleil production Iris at the Kodak Theatre.

UMass Lowell Close-Up feature
UMass Lowell Alumni Magazine  ·  Class of 2005
Close-Up: The Score — Men in Black 3

Featured profile on the craft of film scoring — working as Technical Music Supervisor for Danny Elfman on Men in Black 3.

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Beyond the Work

The therapeutic intent in the work is personal. What Greg designs sound to do for other people, he first had to learn to do for himself: the daily practice, the men's circles he leads through Men's Teams United, the long, unglamorous business of changing, and of continuing to evolve. Two decades of it sit underneath everything on this page.

He also serves as Board Secretary of the Peter & Masha Plotkin Memorial Foundation, which has put over $1.5 million toward arts education for young people. Each board member also directs an annual gift of their own choosing toward that mission — Greg's has gone to Inner City Arts for years running.

Based Santa Monica, Los Angeles
Available Worldwide — Remote & On-site
Education Sound Recording Technology
UMass Lowell
Practice Breathwork · Meditation · Men's Leadership
Giving Annual support, Inner City Arts

Ready to build something?

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In Conversation

A 30-minute conversation on psychoacoustics, the Heal pod, immersive audio design, and what it means to build something at the intersection of Hollywood craft and human wellbeing.

Full Interview 30 min