Welcome to the Sugarbird Soundscape. Here you’ll find a selection of my work. Explore my projects to learn more about what it is I do.
My Portfolio
Video Game Projects
Overwatch 2 Sound Re-Design
A re-design of the sound of one of the ult abilities and player of the game animations from the game Overwatch 2 by Blizzard Entertainment.
To the Moon Sound Re-Design
A re-design of the sound of a short section of To The Moon by Freebird Games (Gameplay footage credit to Father/@nikolasines on YouTube). Most sounds are original recordings or synthesised.
Unpacking Sound Re-Design
A re-design of the sound in one of the levels in the game Unpacking by Witchbeam (Gameplay footage credit to @Unbuliebubble on YouTube). All sounds are original recordings or synthesised.
Destiny 2 Sound Re-Design
My submission to a sound design challenge of redesigning one of the UI systems within Destiny 2 by Bungie. Here the audio sources are a mix of recorded and synthesised processed and layered together.
Mortal Kombat Sound Re-Design
My submission to an interesting sound design challenge of redesigning fatalities of our choosing from the game Mortal Kombat by NeatherRealm Studios using only self-recorded audio sources.
Dig ‘N’ Dino - Solo Dev
Unreleased 2D pixel combat game. Using Unity, Unity Assets, Aseprite, writing my own C# scripts and FMOD.
Genshin Impact Gameplay Sound Re-design
In this project I took gameplay footage from YouTube (@Rubhen925) of the fantasy action-adventure video game Genshin Impact by MiHoYo and re-foleyed without listening to the original audio. Some of the sounds were recorded and edited by me and the background music and some sounds were obtained from royalty-free sources.
‘The Music of Action-Adventure Video Games: Players’ Awareness of Roles and Emotional Responses in Enemy Encounters’
My undergraduate dissertation. Building on musical emotion theory of perception and arousal as a basis, it prepares to question: How does video game music express meaning and emotion? What factors come into play in informing players’ conventional reception of musical events and settings? And when do players adopt deeper and more active listening modes?
In order to explore this, interviews consisting of five audio-visual tasks and a number of semi-guided questions were conducted on a one-to-one basis with a small sample of participants.
Animation, Film & TV
WALL-E - Sound Re-design
My submission for a fun sound design challenge to redesign a clip of the character Mo from the film WALL-E. I used mostly sound synthesis with the use of Vital paired with some foley recordings.
Baseline Trailer - Sound Re-design
A group recording, editing, and mixing project during my industry course at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP). We re-recorded all of the spot effects and ADR dialogue and split up to create our own mixes of this trailer for British TV Crime Drama ‘Baseline’ (2010).
Root & Branch Sustainability Campaign - Sound Design
This was a creative sound design project for the Sustainability team of Keele University Root&Branch. We created a sound logo and campaign video to encourage a sustainable approach to the campus lifestyle. All sounds were recorded and edited, and some video shooting and editing was conducted by me, and background music was made using virtual instruments on Logic.
Compositions
Never Stationary
Electroacoustic composition using electronic transformations of stationery supplies.
Adrift
Solo piano composition exploring the theme of feeling lost and adrift within life.
Zen
Composition for piano inspired by musical minimalism and impressionism.
Drizzle
Project from Introduction to Composition music course. Lo-fi hiphop genre.
Looming
Looming of the unknown. Electroacoustic composition project from Composing with Sound music university module.
Glitch Whistle
Electro-acoustic composition project from Computer Interactive Compositional Transformation course using Max-MSP.