Compositions
Character Pieces
Instrumentation: Instrumental, electronic, varied
These pieces are examples of short-themes for characters or scenes. Could be in a tabletop roleplaying game, video game, or movie.
Night - Dusk, Midnight, Predawn
Instrumentation: Digital
Night is an album designed for timed meditation. It was created for the Kaura wellness app, available on iOS. The three tracks are easily looped, and easily entered or exited, to allow for variation in your mediation time. Each track is meant to elicit the indicated time of night, with the energy or movement associated therein.
Duration: 30 minutes
Day - Morning, Midday, Afternoon
Instrumentation: Digital
Day is an album designed for timed meditation. It was created for the Kaura wellness app, available on iOS. The three tracks are easily looped, and easily entered or exited, to allow for variation in your mediation time. Each track is meant to elicit the indicated time of day, with the energy or movement associated therein.
Duration: 30 minutes
Podcast Music
Instrumentation: Electroacoustic, stereo mix
Potent Podables is a podcast about Jeopardy!. I cohost it with my friend and fellow competitor. I composed this full theme for the show.
Duration: 0:45
Healthy Dialogue is the theme music commissioned for the Healthy Dialogue Podcast, from the Alliance of Community Health Plans.
Duration: 1:04
Tiny Steps - An Awkward Dance for Tuba Quartet
Instrumentation: 2 euphonium, 2 tuba
Tiny Steps is a tongue-in-cheek piece, meant to challenge big instruments. The title is a play on Coltrane's Giant Steps, and instructions for the limitation that I followed when writing. In the first half of the piece, each player can only change pitch by a half-step at a time. For the second half, the limitation changes by a half-step, which makes the players only able to change pitch by whole-steps.
Selected for performance at the Open Space Festival of New Music, 2015.
Duration: 5 minutes
Gourmet
Instrumentation: Electroacoustic, stereo mix
Gourmet is my first venture into electronic composition. All the sound material used was recorded in my kitchen. Through processing in Audacity, Logic, and Reaktor, I created the sounds heard in the piece. It is a sectional composition, using a distinct "glass-clink" as the signpost for each new section.
Duration: 4:38
Quintet for Winds
Instrumentation: Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, Tuba
Quintet for Winds was conceived as a project for my friends at Ball State University, resulting in an atypical ensemble. The form is a modified rondo, where the primary section is varied on every return.
Duration: 5 minutes
Valles Fanfare
Instrumentation: Brass and Percussion
Valles Fanfare was written as a submission for the Valles Symphony Orchestra. It is inspired by the music of Andalusian composer Isaac Albeniz.
Duration: 2 minutes
15
Instrumentation: Solo tuba
15 was selected for performance through the "15-minutes of Fame" call for scores in 2015. It is a procedurally-developed piece. All decisions regarding meter, pitch, and rhythm were made based on the number 15 and its factors 1, 3, 5, and 15. It has a symmetrical form. The middle section requires multiphonics.
Duration: 1 minute
Generic 90's Video Game Music
Instrumentation: Electronic
This work is a simple MIDI composition, demonstrating MIDI manipulation using Digital Performer.
Duration: 2:35
Video / Film
Welcome to the Southwest | US Forest Service
Instrumentation: Various, digital
Welcome to the Southwest is a montage-style video for the US Forest Service. It is the second soundtrack that I composed for the US Forest Service, the first being a promotional video for Get Outdoors Day Colorado. Each section portrays a different ecostystem in the Southwest, with corresponding music to enhance the imagery.
Duration: 16 minutes
Shadowlark
Instrumentation: Various, digital
Shadowlark is a student-made horror/supsense film created at Ball State University. I composed the original score in collaboration with the director and writer. The soundtrack relies mostly on atmospheric elements, particularly tinkling glass and deep drum beats to heighten the suspense.
Duration: 13 minutes