It's been a while now since I've been actively pursuing music, a journey over 20 years with many ups and downs. In fact, in the years before realizing I wanted to pursue game audio, I spent a lot of time making beats and instrumental tracks somewhere between hip hop, electronica, and heavily Gorillaz-slanted alternative pop (or something like that). Since I made a lot of tracks, jams, beats, and musical experiments over the years that I'm very fond of but have sat unreleased, I figured it was time to put them all on one big ol' beat tape.

About three weeks ago, I wrapped up my first ever project involving sound design for a stage performance. The play Ada by playwright Aeneas Sagar Hemphill was produced with The Empty Space Theater at BabsonArts under the direction of Naomi Hopkins, with professional designers working on light, sound, stage, costumes, and props - and a student cast and crew bringing it to life onstage.

For our last meetup of 2025 we're chatting with sound designer, educator and public speaker extraordinaire Akash Thakkar! Known for titles like Hyper Light Drifter, Outer W

As the year draws to a close, everyone's favorite sound design podcast, Tonebenders, once again asked for listeners to submit stories from their own field recording adventures. This episode features contributions from Nathan Moody, Simon Panayi, Tim Kahn, Andrew Dawson, JååN Verschoren, David Thomas, Philipp Feit,  Diego Lukumy, Lamar Samuels, and yours truly. I'm extremely excited that my story on accidentally recording hyenas in Zimbabwe made it into this episode and I really hope you'll enjoy listening to it!

It's finally here! In this A Sound Effect article, Brad Meyer, Josh Lord, and Chris Walasek share a deep-dive behind the scenes of Ghost of Yōtei's soundscape. In this in-depth article, they explore everything from our incredible animation tagging system that made implementing Foley for every character an absolute dream, to how the game was mixed to ensure that critical audio cues can always be perceived in turbulent combat encounters.

With GameSoundCon right around the corner, it couldn’t be a better time to join us for a career and networking focused chat with video game and media composer Star Victoria

Explore the score: Join the creators of Ghost of Yōtei for an exclusive behind‑the‑scenes look at the soundtrack.

Join us for an interview with sound designer **Sabrina Fedele**! Sabrina has worked on games like Airborne Empire, Lichgate, and Letterhead and has spoken at venues such as

Featuring characters from The Last of Us, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Forbidden West, and more.

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I'm super excited to announce that I'll be making my first foray into sound design for theater working on Aeneas Sagar Hemphill's play "Ada" for Babson Arts' faculty-led Empty Space Theater! This dystopian futurist play will premier October 23rd with three performances held at the Sorenson Center of the Arts right on the Babson campus.\n\nIn a not-so-distant future, Ada, a worker of artificial intelligence, disrupts her workplace’s carefully maintained power dynamics by becoming a little too human to contain.