Dana Billings

Dana Billings has been a professional music provider for over 10 years. He is an independent Recording Engineer/Producer based in New York. He plays keyboards for Big Mean Sound Machine, and plays Drums for The Great Bear Trio. Growing up in Ithaca NY, Dana began his musical journey as a founding member of the rock band IY. He discovered his passion for art creation through co-producing, recording, and mixing IY’s first full length album “The Things That Tie Them Down," self-released at age 15. Dana attended Ithaca College’s School of Music for Sound Recording Technology, while simultaneously interning and working at Electric Wilburland Studios. Dana has engineered recording sessions for Grammy award-winning engineer Will Russell, and Grammy-award winning producer Craig Street, among others. He has worked as a session musician for artists including Joe Crookston, and Eric Harvey (Spoon). As a mixing engineer, Dana has worked on music spanning multiple genres for a variety of artists, including Felicia Douglass (Dirty Projectors), and Brittany Campbell (award winning musician and actress). Dana has done production work for Andrew VanNorstrand’s solo album, “That We Could Find A Way To Be,” and recording and mixing work on the album “This Hopeful,” by acclaimed Brooklyn-based indie band, Zula. Dana also composes music for film, multi-media, and television. He notably worked with Google to coproduce music for their GoogleNest social media campaign. He also writes music for radio spots, podcasts, and indie films including the documentary “The Hemlock Woolly Edelgid: A Film About the Loss of an Ecosystem” (Boone Festival Winner 2016, New York State International Film Festival Official Selection 2016).