This is an excerpt from a track designed for a cutscene from an old project. Combines classical mallet sounds with modern synths to create an otherworldly feeling. The piece builds in intensity until it reaches it's climax, where it drops out suddenly, due to a shocking reveal by the villain of the story.

Forest Ruins Cutscene 1 (Portfolio Excerpt)

Main Theme to a project I worked on a while ago. This is a short piece, designed to loop over the title screen. Done in a retro style using emulated sound cards and limited channels.

Main Theme 1 (Portfolio Excerpt)

This is an excerpt from a piece that I wrote to accompany a specific character on a project I worked on recently. My goal was to convey the unique personality of the character through the music.

Awkward Character Theme 1 (Portfolio Excerpt)

This track was created for an independent project for a college friend. It was intended to represent exploring a sunken ship, deep underwater, one that contains the restless spirits of the sailors that once sailed it. This piece utilizes the lower range of the piano to convey the deep darkness of the bottom of the sea, and contains several common conventions of ambient music.

Ghost Ship Theme(Portfolio Excerpt)

This track was created as part of the "Game Off 2021" Game Jam. This piece uses several different synthesizers and chiptune sounds as it's primary instrumentation, and the main melody sits on top of a repeating motif based off of the "Flight of the Bumblebee" theme.

Mecha-Bee Boss Battle Theme (Portfolio Excerpt)

This is a short snippet of a theme that I composed as a commission a few months ago, for a small project about steeping tea. This piece is composed using conventional jazz harmony and instrumentation, and is intended to evoke a calming, peaceful mood within the listener.

Tea Theme (Portfolio Excerpt)

This track was created as a commission for a small, independent project created by a group of college friends. This piece is meant to act as the music for the title screen of the game, and was inspired by the music of Chrono Trigger, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Nier: Automata

Title Screen (Portfolio Excerpt)

This piece was created as part of a commission from a few college friends of mine for an independent project. This piece is intended to serve as the main combat music in an area with mechanical enemies. The instrumentation of this work combines elements of synthesizers with drums and a string section to create an exciting battle theme reminiscent of the battle themes from Xenoblade Chronicles 1

Mechanical Battle (Portfolio Excerpt)

This piece was created as part of a commission for some college friends of mine for an independent project. This piece was written to serve as the field music for an oceanic area with an electrical theme - filled with robotic fish, mechanical fauna, and caves lit only by tiny balls of plasma, I attempted to capture that melding of nature and technology by combining multiple different synthesizer sounds with more natural piano accompaniment.

Transistor Ocean (Portfolio Excerpt)

This piece was created for a commission for a group of old college friends for an independent project. This composition is intended to play while the hero rides through a field towards the ruins of a castle, where an evil wizard has taken up residence. This piece is meant to be highly reminiscent of the music of Nier: Automata and Xenoblade Chronicles 3, combining a string orchestra with synthesizers and the human voice to create a heroic, hopeful, and suspenseful piece rich with drama.

Storming the Castle! (Portfolio Excerpt)

Freelance composer for video games, movies, and independent projects! Currently possessing a B.A. in Music Technology with a Minor in Jazz Studies. I'd like to thank you for taking the time to check out my portfolio, and I look forward to potentially working with you!

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