Directed by Lucie Guest. Premiered on Lifetime TV in Spring 2024.
I collaborated with co-composers on the recording and engineering of an original song and contributed vocals and guitar to the final licensed recording.
A standalone work for orchestra. "Jinx" is inspired by the work of composers that shaped my love of movie music as a child.
Magical forests, heart-pounding chases on horseback, towering castles, and floating lights are among the many images I hoped I could evoke with this music.
Recorded at Bastyr Chapel in Kenmore, WA.
2D Platform Shooter developed for the Artist's Tavern Summer Game Jam. The player must team up with robot known only as R.I.K.I. to escape a mysterious mechanical dungeon.
For this project, I composed original menu and level music, wrote and processed dialogue, and designed various in-game sounds.
Directed by Zaki Alabdullah. Saleh tells the story of a teen boy in a rural village in Saudi Arabia that is responsible for caring for his aging father.
I had the opportunity to work on this short film in spring 2023. All recordings were produced at Studio X in Seattle, WA. Recognized at the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, France, for achievement in Arab filmmaking.
Animated and directed by Delaney Evans. Burn: the Witch was my first original film project in grad school. It briefly and tragically tells a story of love and intolerance.
I had the great opportunity to co-score it with Sean-Paul Gouw, who wrote a killer 'A' theme that is plastered all over the cue I've included here.
Burn: the Witch was nominated at the Play Short Int'l Film Awards in the category of Best Short Film.
This work was composed for chamber orchestra and solo soprano saxophone in the winter of 2022. As an exercise, the aim was to utilize standard jazz harmony in and write a main theme for a hypothetical romantic comedy (probably set in the 90's - when was the last time you saw a romantic comedy?)
I hoped to evoke images of New York during the holidays and so took a great deal of inspiration from one of the all-time great rom-coms: When Harry Met Sally.
Directed by Emma Breslauer. The Woods Out Back was the first film I ever scored and I consider myself VERY lucky to have had that opportunity.
For me, it contains a number of creative inspirations; animation, fantasy, benevolent forest spirits. The film premiered in May of 2020 to an audience of drive in moviegoers in Arlington, TX.
I composed and recorded the introductory theme music to the Throw Champagne Podcast with Thomas Massaquoi.
Thomas and I are good friends and when he asked me to come up with something, I'll admit, I was more than a little excited to produce what would inevitably be a pastiche of all the NPR podcast music that bounces between my headphones throughout my day-to-day.