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HERETIK, 2022

Premiered at Sonica Festival, 2022 at Tramway Glasgow.

Pookmis: Wild Man of the Sea, 2021 (sound designer)

Working on the music for ‘Pookmis: Wild Man of the Sea,’ I drew from Takashi Kokubo’s Water and various works by Hiroshi Yoshimura . When first playing the game, I was originally taken back to my experiences playing ‘Abzu.’ However, while I enjoyed the mood and soundtrack of that game, composed by Austin Wintory, I felt that this game had a very different identity and needed something much gentler, spacious, but purposeful. I percolated soft loops on a wet piano sound, before building upon layers from other sounds to support the repetitive structure. Listening to music from North American indigenous cultures, I was struck by the percussiveness of their music and how equally rhythm was weighed in proportion to tonality, particularly in practices such as throat singing. Recording myself tapping various items, and layering them with various percussive sounds, I infused the arpeggios with a bold rhythmic identity. 

GLOW, 2021 (sound designer)

"Glow" is a projection mapping project in which I collaborated with two animators from UAL. Inspired by the scenes of a local park and the visually-rich topic of fungus, they began their process with collaboratively drawing online. This resulted in a wonderful myriad of complex and complementary drawings. These drawings were then sent to me, along with photos and ambient sounds from the park. I then created a looped audio incorporating field recordings and synth compositions inspired by their drawings. They then reworked these initial ideas, inspired by my sonic work, into the final animations that would subsequently be projection mapped onto natural scenes at the park. I loved this project for how it required a cyclical and reactionary relationship between all collaborators and the environment.