Audio Projects

Music

While I started writing songs on my guitar as a teenager, I have been far more focused in recent years on experimenting with electronic and ambient compositions. On July 31, 2020 I released my first album of ambient music. As with my sound design, many of these are designed to evoke a feeling using layered sounds and environments. I recommend using headphones when listening to these pieces. In July of 2021, I release a four track EP called "Empty Spaces 1" which is the first in a four part series of ambient soundscapes.

Sound Design

I am most interested in using sound design to help create atmosphere and environments, sometimes with a subtlety that might not, initially, be noticed. The sound cue of crickets in my production of Ashes to Ashes took twenty-five minutes to go from inaudible to its final volume, the sound encroaching on the audience's consciousness so slowly that some thought it was coming from outside the building. The play Purple Hearts takes place almost entirely in a sunken ship and my design was likewise nearly continual, most of the time so subtle that the audience no longer noticed until one of the scenes taken place on land started. In those scenes, the sudden absence of soundscape instantly altered the space, catapulting the audience into an entirely different environment.

Below is the production of Near/Far produced by the University of Mississippi Department of Theatre & Film and Directed by Lauren Bone Noble. I did the sound design and composed original music for this distanced movement piece created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation it caused.