Kagan Breitenbach was born in an area of rural Utah famous for dinosaurs and UFOs. There he got into mischief in the outdoors, played piano, and devoured every VHS horror film and NES cartridge he could get his hands on. He left his first career, guiding on the Green River, to pursue music.

It all began when at age 19 his music was selected to be performed by the Utah Symphony. He would later participate in a master class by the world-famous Kronos Quartet giving him his lifelong obsession for chamber string music, something shockingly absent from the part of rural Utah where he grew up. During college, he also worked for Non-Stop Music where he assisted in recording orchestral scores for iconic horror composer Joseph LoDuca (Spartacus 2010-2013) and for later mentor and legendary video game composer Chance Thomas (Dota 2 2013, Lord of the Rings Online 2007-2015).

After college, Kagan worked for the illustrious Strawberry Sound Studios where he began composing for Hollywood projects. He orchestrated and composed additional music for many projects including an HBO feature (Snatchers 2017) which premiered at Sundance and SXSW and a holiday feature (Rekindling Christmas 2020) which was nominated for a daytime Emmy. Kagan was also the sole composer on several films at Strawberry including a feature horror film (Fight Fest 2018) and feature sci-fi film (The Lost Recursion 2020).

Since 2012, Kagan has served as the head of the audio department for an interactive and film production company within the University of Utah where he created music and sound design for games and films for an audience of millions. This culminated in many accolades including Kagan presenting an interactive he conceived of (The Data Symphony 2024) at an NIH conference and the official selection for the APHA film festival of a stop motion animated film (How the mRNA Vaccines were Engineered 2023) for which Kagan created the music and sound design.