Disaster, please!

Transcribed by a fan, engraved by David Peacock.

Returning to "Horror" After #It Follows, I knew I wanted to wait for the right opportunity before jumping back in to score another horror film, if at all.

Childhood Doodles I grew up in an artistic family.

this is a working draft.

In which I talk about what went into the creation of the procedural audio for the 2019 follow up to Mini Metro, "Mini Motorways".

Written over New Year's 2014, originally intended to be a remix, but completely lacking any clear tie-in, "Naked" graduated to become its own track.

A talk covering many of the audio systems in the game, including the procedural exploration music, vertex spatialization system which handles environmental ambience, as well as case studies more specific to particular props and game mechanics.

I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the University of Utah on October 19th, 2024 about concept art, from the perspective of someone who creates music and sound.

Don't ask me how, but Disasterpeace made it into a Star Wars game.

Here's a list of all the records we've done vinyl runs for.

'Jugglernaut', written for Everhood : Eternity Edition

100 bosses, 5 seconds at a time.

Draw the roadways that drive the city.

Over the years I've written a few tracks for Michael Molinari's Soundodger series of games.

this is a working draft.

An Hour of Crickets and Music.

A talk about creative tools, for the 'High Score' Conference hosted by APRA/AMCOS in Melbourne, Australia. picard added after for comedic effect whoops !

From November 2021 to Feb 2022, I had the opportunity to contribute to the audio for Project Lyra, Epic Games' Demo Project for Unreal Engine 5.0.

A video workshop demonstrating how to make synthesizers parts for music more organic and expressive.

an hour of waves, by popular request.

Dino Polo Club recently released the Workshop update for #Mini Metro , which allows users to create their own maps for the game.

I gave a talk at ENJMIN 2020 about the gibberish-based procedural voiceover system we built for the 2016 game Reigns.

Transcribed for Piano by David Peacock Download (PDF)

'Oklahoma', originally written as a fan request, about a couple separated by geography.

My colleague Noah Kellman asked me to write the foreword for his recently published book, ‘ The Game Music Handbook’.

'Turning Teeth', an original song written for the band 'Silversun Pickups' from the film 'Under the Silver Lake' with lyrical contributions from Director David Robert Mitchell Transcribed by David Peacock Download (PDF)

It's rare that I'd want to share what is essentially a review of my work, but I don't think I've seen one where someone so completely 'got' one of my albums as much as Joe Dorsey gets ⌾Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar.

This musical excerpt features samples from a recording of 'Petrushka', composed by Igor Stravinsky.

For all you freelancers out there, I built a 'project personality matrix', for fun and to hopefully help me to continue to make thoughtful work choices.

I was recently asked to contribute a guest mix to Lynchland: "I thought it would be fun to put together a narrative sort of mix, only using songs shorter than 60 seconds, and keeping the work of David Lynch in the back of my head."

A squad of fearless geeks who stand for honor, friendship, and doing stuff.An animated series by Encyclopedia Pictura, directed by Isaiah Saxon & Sean Hellfritsch.

I gave a talk at GDC 2018 as part of a session at the AI Summit called 'Beyond Procedural Horizons'.

I gave a microtalk at GDC 2018 as part of a session at the Artificial Intelligence Summit called 'Turing Tantrums: Devs Rant!'.

* 2020 * Subpixel.

A nice look at the harmonic choices in games like FEZ & Hyper Light Drifter that ties them to some of the larger trends in 20th/19th century music.

This interview originally appeared on the Native Instruments blog.

'Disasters for Piano' is a collection of my works arranged (for piano) by David Peacock.

Podcasts & Video Interviews * 2020 * Steven Melin.

Documentary Filmmaker Lucras Negroni visited my studio in LA and we spoke over the course of two days about various aspects of my work and career.

'The Apple Palace', an original piece for Marimba.

this is a working draft.

Arranged for Piano by David Peacock

I gave a microtalk at GDC 2017 as part of a session called 'Composer Confessions'.

Jonathan Brodsky & I answered some questions about our work on the game ‘Beasts of Balance’.

Gunhouse was a very unique and fun project for me.

A short by Eran Hilleli.

As an artist, being pigeonholed is an unfortunate reality that comes with the territory.

I spoke with Peter Curry of Dinosaur Polo Club at Konsoll 2016, in Bergen, Norway.

A stop-motion short by Kirsten Lepore.

this is a working draft.