Here are samples of sound work for clients, including sonic branding, sound design for trailers and installations, and theme composition, for clients. If you want to hear similar work in shows, listen to something from the Podcast Development page.
Good Tape Magazine
Sonic Logo & Trailer Sound Design
Good Tape founder Dane Cardiel asked me for some free ranging sound design for the magazine’s launch trailer. We settled on something that sounded handmade like the magazine, and could be meta or self aware too – only fitting for an industry broadsheet.
Among other things, I recorded the hidden noises that go into making podcast audio. So much of the production process is designed to make itself invisible, but it’s rife with byproducts that producers clean up that are as fundamental to “tape” as dirt is to a carrot.
Here the tools themselves are the stars. You’ll hear mic scratches and pops, remixed subway voice memos, ambi from around the world, and best of all: EMF recordings of audio equipment hard at work.
Special thanks to LOM’s Elektrouši and Geofón. Hear the finished work here.
Next Question with Katie Couric
Showrunner Ryan Martz asked me to whip up a custom option for Katie’s team while they settled on a theme for their 2023/24 season of Next Question. They had stock catalog options but wanted to see what they could do quickly.
The brief wanted an “Edgy-Kara-Swisher-Fun-Playful–Unexpected” theme, and their most out there reference was Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red.”
I took the weekend to think, found some trumpet samples (thanks Mihail) and made this piece. Katie’s team ended up loving my track and called us “miracle workers” for handling the theme in a single business day.
Sweet Talk Scoring
Trailer Score & Installation Audio
Good Tape threw a Valentine’s Day party, and I contributed some romantic scoring for their event trailer, featuring quotes from leaders in the podcast industry, harps, swooning synths, and the wing beats of birds at my window feeder.
I also designed a liminal piece of audio to be played on loop in the venue bathroom. A procession of pull quotes plays over Chopin’s “Raindrop Prelude,” blending into score by me, purrs of my cat, thunder and rain in Brooklyn, as well as some secret messages (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧. Here’s a short sample.
Really Good Shares
Beside producing the series, I wrote some score for the end of Really Good Shares‘ debut episode, “Hit by a Truck.”
It’s towards the end, when Emma describes what it was like to get behind the wheel for the first time after relearning to walk, following a devastating car accident, and drives out across the Florida Keys. I wanted something light, hopeful, and persistent, and took inspiration from Honor Eastly’s lovely scoring on No Feeling Is Final.
Last Stop Love
Audio Post – Mix & Master
Jacki Huntington contacted me to help sweeten the mix for her and Adele Uddo’s documentary about the life lived and lessons learned by a “parts” model. This short blends archival footage, multimedia works, and contemporary interviews and narration, plus soundtrack, which I balanced and mixed to industry specs.
In the Archives
Spec Compositions
Here are tracks I’ve made for shows that didn’t end up getting released, etc.
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