And we're back

Jan 17th 2012

A shame that the most exciting 2 years so far have also been the ones where I haven't updated my site even once =)

I'm catching the games/code/projects/music portfolio sections of the site up bit by bit.  At this point I'm thinking about a redesign to help me emphasize more current or ambitious work, with maybe a little bit of extra tactile interest/reward for those with JavaScript enabled.

Quick tidbit: my videogame band Battlecake played at the 10th annual Magfest music and games festival - the same day Nobuo Uematsu's band played!  The unflappably cool (why yes, I do think there's a chance he may read this at some point, why do you ask?) game music press guy Jayson Napolitono caught the show and gave us a flattering writeup.  Anyway, if you're gonna be outshone by somebody, might as well be Nobuo himself!

Battlecake featured in Songs for the Cure

Jan 25th 2010

Awesome indie game composer Josh Whelchel (Spirit Engine 2, Bonesaw) runs a project called Songs for the Cure, a cancer research fund-raiser CD featuring indie game composers and game music artists.  It's a yearly release (now in its 2nd) and has featured the likes of the illustrious Kyle Gabler and Alec Holowka - last year it made over $6,000, and this year the goal is $10,000.

Josh mentioned to me the other day that Battlecake (my game music arrangement band) would make a nice addition to the album - most of our recordings are still in progress or at least unmixed, but luck would have it that we had exactly one tune finished (and it's a doozy)!  Songs for the Cure '10 is due out in March - check it out, and feel free to donate to the cause!

Bird & Squirrel at International Family Film Festival

Jan 20th 2010

I recently scored a short film called "The Bird and the Squirrel", and I found out recently it was selected for the 15th annual International Family Film Festival.  It will be screened in LA this March - congratulations, Becky!

Bird and Squirrel Soundtrack

Dec 30th 2009

Rebecca Scully contacted me the other week about writing an original soundtrack for her short animation.  It's very cute, and kind of like a fable - you should check it out here!  I went with a mostly solo piano style, a lot of it improvised (very carefully, of course!).

This is the closest I've ever synced music to action - definitely a learning experience.  I'm predominantly a games guy, but this is a great example of the power of linear media (films, books, recorded music, etc.).  It's fun to be able to have an authorial voice that comments on and foreshadows events moment-to-moment =D

sin(Surfing)'s had almost 100,000 downloads!

Jun 1st 2009

100,000 is a lot... cool. I like this. Way to go Greg and Raph!