Luke Brevoort is an audio engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
Hi, I’m Luke (he/him). I’ve been obsessed with recorded sound since age five and have been making and manipulating recordings for nearly as long.
I currently release music as Ultimo Maximo and as one half of The Aft. I also make the Signals & Bridges podcast, exploring library music. I’ve worked on loads of other projects over the years, which you can find below👇.
SELECTED WORK
SIGNALS & BRIDGES
A podcast exploring library music and the people who made it.
I review thousands of tracks, compile thematic playlists, research the lives of the musicians behind the music, write and record host segments, mix and publish each ~1 hour episode.
I also post the best of the album art I come across on Instagram.
THE AFT - THE WORK OF AFT IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION
My second collab with Colin Holter as The Aft is a leap forward from our first effort and will keep you guessing from start to finish. It’s maybe my favorite production work I’ve had the pleasure of doing to-date.
ULTIMO MAXIMO - TWENTY-THREE IMPROVISATIONS FROM A TRIANGULAR ROOM
Three brave friends and I holed up in a house for a weekend and produced 8+ hours of improvised music. It was great fun and an incredible outpouring of ideas.
In fact, it such was an intimidating body of material that took two years for me to get up the courage to revisit it. After much toil, I managed to chop it up and knit it together into a record that is as dense in ideas as it is full of life.
Read a full writeup on the album’s bandcamp page.
VENGEANCE
A 41+ episode actual-play D&D 5E podcast, based on recordings of a campaign I started running during the pandemic and which grew into a much bigger story than me or my players were anticipating. This was a massive labor of love and my first foray into audio storytelling and narrative sound design.
A collection of music and sound design excerpts from the show can be found here.
Listeners of the show looking for the page of reference info/art can find that here.
THE AFT - IZEU
Colin Holter and I set out to make a record in the style of late-80’s/early 90’s art-rock albums like Peter Gabriel’s “So” or Tears For Fears’ “Songs From The Big Chair.” A mostly-remote pandemic project recorded, mixed and mastered entirely in my home studio, I had a blast figuring out how to produce his songs with era-appropriate sounds using digital versions of vintage synths and other gear.
THE RETURN & DEPARTURE OF ARODIAS
(Audiobook) An epic poem in iambic pentameter chronicling the picaresque exploits of an unlikely group of travelers.
ULTIMO MAXIMO
An album of instrumental music and sound that I call “adventure music.” My debut solo release, the album is the result of a three-year experiment of creative work in isolation: the project was created start to finish with no outside input.
A series of “suggested visions” to accompany each track can be found on the album’s bandcamp page.
The album was featured on WOSU’s Classical 101 program.
FLOTATION WALLS - OBELISK
Recorded piecemeal with zero budget in our ramshackle rehearsal space between tour legs and knitted together in my home studio, this two-track release is a brief glimpse of the exciting direction this band was beginning to go in before it fizzled out a few years later.
FLOTATION WALLS - NATURE
I saw Flotation Walls perform in the basement of a rec center in - I think - 2003. Four years later, I saw they were looking for a drummer and I sent them a message, beginning what would be a 6-year tenure with the group that would completely redefine my approach to creative work.
That work started with getting the years-long production of the sprawling art-pop masterpiece NATURE across the finish line. I produced several demo sessions, assisted with arrangement changes and performed additional percussion. Afterward, I booked, managed and performed in the band’s subsequent year-long tour.
KASLO - OHIO! EP
The lively, spontaneous follow-up to Kaslo’s debut record was recorded with a mobile studio setup in an old house in Athens, Ohio. In addition to holding it down on drumkit, I served as assistant producer/engineer to Josh Antonuccio.
ALI ZJANA - ANTENNAS
A brooding, quirky little song, written & produced in an afternoon at the RTVC 329 Studio in Athens, Ohio.
KASLO - WATCHING THE CAROUSEL COLLAPSE
After I produced a demo session for an as-yet-unnamed singer/songwriter duo, they asked me to join them on drumkit and Kaslo was born. Over the next six months or so, I produced a series of further demos that laid the groundwork for this album, which was beautifully recorded and mixed by Josh Antonuccio at 3 Elliott Studios in Athens, Ohio.
THEMES FOR JOHN
A handful of little instrumental pieces I produced for a film project that never saw the light of day.