Owner · Creative Director · Fallbrook, CA

Christopher Cash.

Name: Sonic-Rocket Productions, LLC
Price range: $$

Christopher Cash is a songwriter, recording artist, woodworker, and the reason Sonic-Rocket exists: a home studio that outgrew the house and became the rooms you can tour today.

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Christopher Cash, founder of Sonic-Rocket Productions, in a red fedora and red studio shirt

Christopher Cash · Owner & Creative Director

The story

A hobby gone wild.

Christopher Cash is the owner and creative director of Sonic-Rocket Productions. When his home studio outgrew his Escondido house he moved to Fallbrook and built the studio he had always wanted, room by room. Sonic-Rocket is, in his words, a hobby gone wild: his real love is making music and art, and he enjoys working with local artists and everything about the creative process.

His role connects the practical side of the studio with the artistic side of each session. Cash helps artists shape arrangements, capture performances, review mixes and make the decisions that keep a project moving without losing its identity. The same hands-on approach carries into his woodworking, visual pieces, videos and records. When he is not in the studio you will find him in the workshop with the latest project.

Read how the rooms came together in the Sonic-Rocket story, or see his own site at christophercash.com.

A man wearing a hat and glasses singing into a microphone while playing an acoustic guitar in a studio.

In the control room

A man wearing a hat and glasses playing an acoustic guitar in a dimly lit setting.

Christopher Cash in a brown hat in front of the studio fish tank

Musicians performing on stage at the Navajo venue with instruments and microphones.

Artist's statement

Christopher Cash, artist and craftsman.

We live in an age where we have the luxury of creating our own identity. I have chosen to call myself an artist and craftsman. These are, at least, titles I aspire to, even if not always fully deserved. My mother was an artist by the same loose definition and my father was a craftsman. Together they showed me that each of us has a unique way of seeing our world, and that if we try, we can share our perspective with others through art. Sometimes, when everything aligns just right, this exchange is magical.

Discography

Three records and a fourth on the way.

From homemade CDs to my own recording studio, it's been quite a ride. Listen to the music here, and meet the players and explore the liner notes at christophercash.com.

In progress · Recorded at Sonic-Rocket

Flowers

My latest work in progress, and the record I'm most excited about. Self-produced and recorded entirely at Sonic-Rocket with help from my best friend John Saccoman, it's a project that's especially close to my heart.

A single white flower with yellow center growing from dry soil in a neutral setting.

Sacred Heart · Flowers · Beautiful Lies · If She Could See · Cube Captive · One Way Ride

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2008 · Miracle Recording, with Jeff Berkley

Invisible

Recorded with producer Jeff Berkley, a fun and rewarding project that earned some local attention, including a track on Staring at the Sun, Volume 7, a 2009 compilation curated by Bart Mendoza. Houdini Knew and If She Could See are from this one.

Morning Star · Not Going Back · Invisible · Empathy · If She Could See · Blistering Velvet · Eloquence · Houdini Knew · Tangled In Wire · Old Photograph · Coming Home · Three Minutes Late · The Game

Listen & notes Apple Music

2005 · Produced by Joe Ongie

Hollywood Mirage

My first "real" album, produced by the extraordinarily talented Joe Ongie, one of the most remarkable artists I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Fifteen songs, with Jon Mattox cutting the drums in one long session.

Album cover featuring Christopher Cash with a vintage telephone and a glass of drink.

Flicker Of Light · Hollywood Mirage · Pardon Me · Cynthia's Smile · Kithicor Wood · Broken Sky · Under The Table · Legends Lost · Brace For Collision · Precarious World · Taxi Driver · Unpracticed Pose · Butterfly · Evergreen · Electronic Religion

Listen & notes Apple Music

2004 · Recorded at home in Cubase

Cube Captive

My humble homemade Cubase experiment. I burned about a dozen CDs for friends, and that was pretty much the extent of its commercial success. It was never for sale, but it gave me the push to make a real record.

Cube Captive · Escape · Invisible · Butterfly · Maidenhead · Broken Sky · Life With Me · Waiting For The Sky · Tangled In Wire

Listen & notes

Videos

Sacred Heart, on film.

Over the past few years Cash has been dabbling in filmmaking. With some great classes at Palomar College, a couple of semesters at JDS Academy, and guidance from his friend Greg Schumsky, he knows just enough to be dangerous. Check out some of his music videos.

Sacred Heart · Christopher Cash
The song is for Diane, a first girlfriend met on a party line in the early seventies. Read the story behind the release →

If She Could See

One Way Ride

Houdini Knew

On stage and in the studio

Photo gallery

Christopher Cash at Sonic-Rocket Productions

Two musicians in a recording studio, one playing a cello and the other playing a percussion instrument.

Christopher Cash, founder of Sonic-Rocket, the Fallbrook hand-built recording studio

Free one-hour studio tour

Come talk music with Cash.

Bring a song, an idea or a question about the business. The tour is an hour, it is free, and it is the best way to find out whether Sonic-Rocket is your room.

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