Welcome

This is a blog / repository for all of my projects. I have a lot of hobbies that span a lot of different accounts and platforms. This site is the archive of all these, plus additional thoughts or comments as I develop my ideas.

House In A Storm Demo

Summary

This was the culmination of some preliminary research into instilling fear using sound. This project was inspired by the findings of several papers, and foley practices in film. The concept was to simulate a dangerous environment by using sound and visuals that recalled childhood vulnerabilities, instinctual fears, and player experience/expectations of horror films. So far, this project hasn’t certifiably proven anything, but still turned out to be good practical experience with Unreal Engine, metasounds, and sound design.

The Most Holiday Song

It’s funny how so many cultures independantly came up with their own holidays designed to bring light to the darkest season of the year. This is a song about that. Ho Ho Ho.

Obelisk Prototype Synth Controller

If you think that this looks like four controllers duct taped togeather, you would be right. I’ve been experimenting with this interface for the control of computer synthesizers (such as VCV rack patches) and it’s been quite a bit of fun.

My favorite quality of this interface is that there is equal capacity for solo and collaberative performance due to the excess of buttons and joysticks. There is no way to accurately control every aspect of these programs all at once which can result in some very surprising and stimulating sonic landscapes.

Fun First

I made a rock album in mono. You can listen to it here.

The Heroes Journey

My first long-form musical project:

The concept is explained in the video description.

I Am Apollo

This was originally created for an 8 channel speaker array. The concept was that each pulsating sound would rotate around the listeners head at a rate proportional to the orbit of a planet. The pulsing was proportional to the planets day length.

The sound of the planets was decided without much thought, so one day I would like to rerecord this piece with something other than garbage-sounding midi-instruments. The only sounds I do appreciate are sonified data from several planets, which I took from NASA’s website.