Music
Composing, sound design, and fun acoustics
I compose for theatre and performance. I do podcast themes, short scoring projects, full theatre sound design, and write the occasional musical-theatre inspired song. My degree was in Acoustics and Music Technology, which I ended with a dissertation on emulating the sound of stalactites when you hit them with a mallet.
Projects in this area
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Composing
Themes and scores for podcasts, theatre, and other narrative art
Artwork from “Ethics Town” podcast
I compose music for theatre and other performance and narrative art.
Podcasts
Themes for audio fiction podcasts.
Short Scoring Projects
Sketches
Short pieces I made for university assignments but did not develop into a full piece.
Theatre Composing
Theatre Sound Design
Other
I wrote my dissertation on “Ancient Rock Music”: the sound stalactites make when hit by a rubber mallet. The project was inspired by a visit to Luray Caverns, Virginia, home of the “Great Stalacpipe Organ”: an instrument that plays the cave itself.
The work had three parts: a physical simulation of struck stalactites using finite-difference and modal methods (approximating them as cantilever bars of variable diameter, in MATLAB), a field trip to record real stalactites, and a virtual instrument built in C++ with JUCE so anyone can play a cave from their Digital Audio Workstation.