For Sand, Snow, Sea, and Sky I was asked to compose a piece based on an existing eight-note melody. Starting with a bold statement of this theme in the first section, I used various techniques to reshape and transform it throughout, enhancing it with my own melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint. The inspiration for this piece was the locations and environments in a popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game: a desert city, a forest region, a costal community, a mountain kingdom, and a floating island. Special thanks to Brady Kerr for composing the original eight note motif.

Beards & Glory follows a horde of “Viking gate crashers” as they “sack castles and strongholds across the world.” I had the opportunity to work with Blind Squirrel Games to compose and orchestrate original music for this innovative iOS action platformer.

Inspired by a popular sandbox video game, I composed a piece that would musically invite players to relax, explore, and create at their leisure during the day...before being mercilessly pummeled by zombies after dark.

The first of two very different pieces I composed as a rescoring project for a clip from a popular animated film. In the clip, the main character chases after someone, then finds himself climbing up the side of a rocket that gets launched into space. Though terrified at fist, he is soon awed by the beauty of the galaxy around him. This first version of the score uses virtual recreations of traditional orchestral instruments.

This is the companion to the piece above, and my first electronic-style rescoring project. For this version, I sought to achieve an entirely different sound from the acoustic-style version using some different compositional approaches as well as the software synthesizers in Propellerhead's Reason 9. The result conveys the same impressions as the previous versions, but with an entirely different sonic palette.

I had the privilege of working with Oregon-based developer Soma Games to design sound and compose an original theme for a game demo showcasing Intel’s RealSense technology. In the game, an ice-powered superhero battles a villain born of fire! The Soma team exhibited this demo at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2014.

A challenge to write the main title theme for an imaginary western-themed video game led to the creation of this piece. For inspiration, I looked to themes old film and TV westerns, and experimented with unique sounds like the harmonica and the banjo. The final product is sure to please at least 6 out of 7 magnificent gunslingers.