Under the direction of Kevin Kwal I learned several amazing and effective techniques as we worked on mastering the Void album which Myself and Tyson McCarney completed producing.

Here we are working on the Master Tracks at Fadermaster Studios.

click here to go to Music Page to listen to some of the finished Tracks

The Project called Comatose is an interactive flash environment in which the creation of the audio / music had to play the main role in setting up the atmosphere, emotion, and tension of each scene.  This was because each scene is simply a still image, but through the creative composition of the music, each scene takes on a life of its own and becomes much more immersive for the viewer.

Comatose has now been added to the Video projects page along with some additional content related to the project.

Click here to go directly to the project.

Upon diving into movie and game trailer projects, creating the Sound FX and Composing Music  for this type of media has opened the door to an new side of writing / producing, that I never thought of getting in to.  I now am able to produce quality audio for more complex media applications than ever before, and thoroughly enjoy the process.

There is a recently added Game Trailer  added to my video section to demo my work.

Click here to go directly to video

Learning about different surround sound mic techniques, such as middle side, Optimized Cardioid Triangle, and the Bloomfield Technique,  has opened doors to surround recording that I never would have thought.  But it also became evident that these techniques also can be applied to the stereo field to add a whole new level of dimension to modern recorded music.

I created this sampler of a traditional Mbira acoustic instrument, starting with multiple layers of recorded samples of the instrument.  Every note recorded in varying intensities, finger mutes recorded separately, and even the Mbira placed on a djembe drum for resonance option.

Many Effects can be applied from the custom interface, such as seperate feedbacks, delays, phasers, and LFOs.

The Instrument was created using Kontakt.

Here are some sound Samples
mbira-clean

mbira-with-built-in-fx

Starting into the second year of the Masters of Music Production & Technology program, I received a scholarship, awarded for academic achievement based on the grades earned in the first year of the program.