Music + Sound Design
- Video (Requires Flash Player)
- sound design for 16 dinosaurs + environments
project title
Dig for Dinosaurs
client
Sesame Street
date
2010
categories
Sound Design
primary role(s) for this project
- Audio Concepts
- Sound Design
additional team members
uPop Media - Concept, Creative/Art/Design Direction, DeveloperAmy Kim - Producer
project links
Dig for Dinosaurs
uPop Media (Designer / Developer)
project notes
With this project we were to create sounds for 16 dinosaurs and environments form various periods in time. The challenge was to make them as realistic as possible, as this project was co-sponsored by a science organization, but not to scary for the little ones who would be playing the game. And we even consulted with an expert at the Natural History Museum to verify the likelihood of the sounds, even though we will never really know, as there is no soft tissue left in the fossils of course.
Each dinosaurs voice typically consisted of up to a dozen animals cutup and mixed together, or more in some cases, and there are even a few human voices mixed in. This was definitely one of the most fun sound design projects ever.
- Audio (Requires Flash Player)
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Big Beat
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Tokyo Jack
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Wired and Tired
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Beat Box
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Jimmy's Nickel
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Bling It
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Dali Set Alert 01
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Dali Set Alert 02
- Video (Requires Flash Player)
- MTV India TV Commercial with Big Beat theme + my Beat Box + a few rude ringtones
project title
Hijacked by MTV Audio
client
MTV / Motorola
date
2004 - 2005
categories
Music + Sound Design
primary role(s) for this project
- Music + Sound Design
project notes
We created 25+ bespoke ringtones in a variety of styles for the Motorola "Hijacked by MTV" partnership. Some were musical like those used in this On-Air Promo from MTV India and some sound effects based like the "Dalí Set" below.
The Hijack campaign was the most globally successful part of the relationship and brought fruition hundreds of off-the-wall wallpapers, screensavers, java games, and ringtones for the various Motorola mobile phones, with the tagline — It’s not your parent’s phone. We created several of the more musical ringtones (below), over one hundred alerts, in addition to several gastronomic deformities and “rudities” (which are in the commercial).
project title
MTV Exquisite Corpse 03
client
MTV International
date
2003
categories
Art Direction + Sound
primary role(s) for this project
- Concept + Strategy
- Art Direction + Design
- Music + Sound Design
additional team members
Amy Kim - Website ProducerOleg Troyanovsky - International Campaign Producer
Large Animal - Flash popup implementation
project links
project notes
We did the design and the music and sound effects for the MTV Exquisite Corpse 03 campaign website. Exquisite Corpse (aka Exquisite MTV), was the theme of the 2003 MTV Global Image campaign.
The goal of the website was to allow visitors to understand and watch where each part of the 16 different Exquisite Corpse videos came from, and also watch the full videos. Each video started with a color, and had 7, 1 second parts (for a total of 8 seconds). Each 1 second part being created by a different international team, then passed to the next, which were then "sewn" together.
- Audio (Requires Flash Player)
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"Not THAT red button..."
project title
Shadow MPG
client
Vae Victis Games
date
2003
categories
Game Sound Design
primary role(s) for this project
- Sound Design
project notes
Vae Victis Games was an independent game development studio that created a multiplayer first person shooter PC game using the Torque game engine. This is a sound narrative using several sounds created for the game. The full game utilized over 500 sounds and was based on a similar idea to the Splinter Cell series that came out around the same time.
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2003 - MTV Holiday Card : A Bit Critter 8-bit Holiday
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2004 - MTV Holiday : The Snow Globe
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2004 - MTV Hijacked Ringtones - Big Beat
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2004 -MTV Hijacked Ringtones - Tokyo Jack
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2004 - MTV Hijacked MIDI Ringtones - Mix
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1998-2000 - MaMaMedia Mix
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1998 - Pygmy Taxi Corp - Mars II
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1998 - Pigar (in Cage)
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1997 - Pygmy Taxi Corp - Cleopatra Records, Trans Europe Express 2 - Numbers - excerpt 1
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1997 - Pygmy Taxi Corp - Cleopatra Records, Trans Europe Express 2 - Numbers - excerpt 2
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1995 - Electronium - Para-Para-NonStop Vol.02 - Interzone
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1995 - Electronium - Para-Para-NonStop Vol.2 - Pee Wee On Mars
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1995 - Electronium - Para-Para-NonStop Vol.04 - 1000 Cycles
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1995 - Electronium - Para-Para-NonStop Vol.04 - Sim Ant A-Go-Go
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1995 - MSI - Girl From Iwo Jima
project title
Various Music + Sound Design
client
Various Clients + Labels
date
1989 - 2010
categories
Music + Sound Design
primary role(s) for this project
- Music + Sound Design
project notes
A short list of a sound design and music I have created for various projects over the years, with a few audio samples.
2010
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, Sound Design
2006
Mezco Toys - Family Guy Talking Stewie Doll, Sound Design & Dialog Editing
2006
Mezco Toys - Scarface Talking Tony Doll, Sound Design & Dialog Editing
2005
American Museum of Natural History - “Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga”, Sound Design
2004 - 2005
MTV - Motorola Hijacked by MTV “Ringtones”, Music & Sound Design
2004
MTV International - Holiday Card : The Snow Globe, Music & Sound Design
2003
MTV International - 2003 Holiday Card : A Bit Critter Holiday, Music & Sound Design
2003
MTV International - Exquisite MTV campaign, Music & Sound Design
2003
Saucon Films “Black Wine”, ADR & Sound Design
2002
Vae Victis Games - Shadow Mulitplayer PC Game, Sound Design
1998-2001
MaMaMedia Website, Music & Sound Design
1999 - 2000
Time Warner Cable - Road Runner / MaMaMedia Commercial, Music
2000 - 2001
Sony Pictures America - Jumanji / MaMaMedia Web Game, Sound Design
2000 - 2001
Kellogg’s - Tony the Tiger Web Game & TV Spot, Music, Sound Design & Audio Logo
1999
General Mills - Fruit Roll Ups Web Game, Sound Design
1997
Cleopatra Records - A Tribute to Kraftwerk: Numbers, Music
1995
Meldac (Japan) - Para-Para Vol. 1, 3, 4, Music
1994
American Museum of Natural History - “Earth to Space Science” kiosk, Music
1989 - 2009
The B2 team as “The Pygmy Taxi Corp”, Music
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2010
- Dig for Dinosaurs
Sesame Street
Sound Design
Sound Design for 16 dinosaurs + environments
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2004 - 2005
- Hijacked by MTV Audio
MTV / Motorola
Music + Sound Design
- We created 25+ bespoke ringtones for "Hijacked by MTV"
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2003
- MTV Exquisite Corpse 03
MTV International
Art Direction + Sound
Art Direction + Music & Sound Design for the Exquisite…
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2003
- Shadow MPG
Vae Victis Games
Game Sound Design
Sound Design for a Mulitplayer PC Game
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1989 - 2010
- Various Music + Sound Design
Various Clients + Labels
Music + Sound Design
A short list of some projects over the years, with a…
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