Excerpt from a stochastic piece implemented in Wwise using 15 short audio samples.

Music from the video game "Relic" by Team Synaptic Sugar. Original compositions by Ian Shores, except where noted. 

All music is copyright (2015) DigiPen Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. 

The Hangar

A recording of an interactive piece I wrote in 2015 for soprano and computer. 

Sion Shauny Jang, Soprano
Ian Shores, Computer

Song for St. Cecilia's Day (2015)

Happy Birthday, Dad

These were adaptive implementations recorded out of Wwise using Soundflower, and composed by me of course :)

And The Kitchen Sink

The Grim Icky

A Hasty Romp

Co-composed for a game about a girl in a dreamland. 

Melanie

A granularly sampled stampede!

A study in the effects of extreme tempos on delay lines and granular synthesis.

Grampede

Co-composed with Shauny Sion Jang for a video game about a girl in a dream world. 

Impressions of the Moon (Somnus, 2016)

A piece that reflects on the accretion of complexity, by way of phase vocoders, delay lines and granular synthesis. 

Entropical Paradise

Video game music from DigiPen Institute of Technology. An original composition.

OST from "Reminisce" — Main Theme (2011)

Ian is a committed, passionate, decisive, and collaborative sound designer. He is the full-time manager of two production sound labs, live sound reinforcement, and recording studio — while also pursuing a full-time BA in Music & Sound Design at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. 

As a Composer and Sound Designer, Ian specializes in adaptive and interactive game soundscapes, whose layers and nature shift character dynamically to reflect the player's choices and progress. Ian uses both studio and field recording, as well as scripted audio and DSP. He has a discerning ear, 20 years of classical piano training, 10 years of choral singing, accompanying and conducting.


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