The ‘band of soloists’ — Over a year ago, I published part one of this series in which I revealed the aesthetic and main theme for Giant Squid’s upcoming adventure The Pathless. …

A primer on interactive music — Probably the single most common question I get from students and journalists alike is “what are the differences between scoring a film and scoring a game?” Depending on my mood the answer is either very short or very long, but always seems to end up at this point: Games are…

The music of ERICA — part 2 — Warning: mild spoilers ahead! Welcome to part 2 of my thorough breakdown of Flavourworks’ debut title, Erica. If you haven’t read part 1, it can be found here. As a recap, previously I talked about figuring out the basic palette and central theme to the game and all that that…

The music of ERICA — part 1 — Warning: mild spoilers ahead! I normally wouldn’t indulge in so deep a dive as this, but Erica was such a complex and fascinating experience that I’ve let myself go a little overboard. …

2010–2019 in review — On a whim, I decided to take a look back at my career during this past decade and pull together the highlights. It quickly ballooned into a fairly deep-cutting examination of how I’ve spent my time these last 10 years and how far I’ve come. …

A reckless approach — The following was originally published for the PlayStation Blog, published Oct 1, 2019: It’s often not assumed that composers scoring games are themselves gamers (a travesty I have no explanation for), but in my case, my entire life has been marked by countless memorable titles. In my profession, I’ve…

The theme - the soul of a score — I never do this. This will be a series of blog posts about a score as I’m writing it, which is something I would normally avoid like the plague. But this is a chance to try something new and expose the creative process mid-stream. Hopefully it’s interesting! …

Days 17–31 — Part 2, which began here, highlighting some of the sources of gratitude in my life: January 17 Gratitude Day 17: Two writers, a game developer, a VFX genius, an engineer, and a producer / creative kindred soul. The (unfairly short!) summaries of each person below make this post rather long so I…

Day 1–16 — Time for an onslaught of gushing! For the month of January 2019, I have been making daily short posts of gratitude, mostly towards specific people. Rather than have it consigned to my personal profile on Facebook, I decided to duplicate it here. Hopefully its length doesn’t discourage reading it all…