Erik Aadahl was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now lives and works in Los Angeles.  

He began his career as a freelance sound effects editor at 20th Century Fox on films such as X-Men 2. While sound designing I, Robot and Superman Returns, he taught sound at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and later worked as supervising sound editor of Valkyrie and Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life.

In 2006, he partnered with Ethan Van der Ryn on the first of seven Transformers films, followed by Kung Fu Panda, World War Z and Godzilla. He received Oscar® nominations for Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Argo, A Quiet Place and The Creator.
 
He strongly believes that sound is half the cinematic experience.