Sound Design and music For video games is another area that I have found great enjoyment in.

Here is a preview of a composition I did for an online flash game by Dark Realm Studios where I wrote and produced all the in game music.

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.

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