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Mr. Villani is recognized by many as one of the top audio professionals in the region. He has been recording and engineering music for almost three decades and has mixed and edited musical content alongside Grammy Award winners and nominees. He has composed and scored his own music, and has studied with Robert Moog, the legendary pioneer and inventor of the Moog Synthesizer. A recent project included editing and engineering voice tracks for the popular video game “Call of Duty” for game maker Activision. In addition to teaching audio production, he maintains and manages Data Music Services, a state-of-art audio studio and editing facility that is based in Altoona. He was one of the early adopters of non-linear digital technologies, and is recognized for his expertise in ProTools software. He has earned a Masters of Arts in Music Theory/Composition at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has also studied acoustics and music at Temple University, North Carolina University/Ashville, and North Texas State University. He has completed doctoral-level classwork at Boston University and hopes to fully complete his doctoral studies in the near future.