Sound Design

Grounded

Directed by: Patrick Pearson

The show asked for a mix tape without specification for what should be on it. The director and I explored the music tastes of what we believed the pilot might listen too and I composed it into a short collage of what the mix tape would be.

The script called for the mix tape to end with “The Pony Song” It gave four lines of text and asked for an original composition for the show. I worked with Mike Yarick, a student at Texas Tech to compose this version of the pony song.

Sound Design

Black Girl, Interrupted

A new Play by Lyanisha Gonzalez

Directed by Jesse Jou

Scenery by: Ian Olsen

Lighting by: Taylor Alfred

Costumes by: Emilia Richardson

This drumming was the underscore for the first and last cadence. It was the military marching cadence with no distortion and no edits. It was simply pulled from the US Navey as a cadence that they march to. We wanted this to be as close to accurate a possible, as we didn’t want to villainize the army at the beginning of the play.

As each cadence became increasingly more aggressive and violent we wanted to represent that in the drumming of the cadences. After the first cadence we switched from the normal military drums to something that was more distorted and aggressive.This drumming was actually something I extracted from a cover of Wade in the Water by the Rigs. The first time it is used it is underscoring Sasha singing wade in the water as she matches in for a cadence.

Throughout the show we defined each space by an ambient sound scape that set the location. When we were in the bar we set the scene by playing songs that sounded like a jukebox. We actually let the actor choose the music that she felt like represented her character to use in the jukebox.

This music box was a midi track that I created based on the song All the Pretty Little Horses. I spent time in Ableton Live adding small amounts of reverb and distortion to create the timbre of the music box, just the way we wanted for the show.

Sound Design

RROAPS 2018

Student Directed

Scenery by Abraham Milan

Lighting by Jacob Henry

Costumes by Winter Davis

Aberrant by Anthony Burton

Directed by Lydia McBee-Reed

Abberant is show about an AI that is trying to learn her purpose in the world through digital expiramental testing. This transition consist of multiple computer sounds overlaid onto a musical baseline. These computer sounds would eventually become sound that Abberant made in the production itself.

Part of the sound design of this production as well dealt with speaker placement and the voice of the computer itself. We had an actress to play the part of aberrant live, but do to the nature of the computer prop, we had to place her offstage and mic her so that could control where her voice came from at different times.

Arid by Shane Strawbridge

Directed by Kevan Dunkelberg

This is a MIDI version of Autumn Leave I created to serve as the transition and background music for Arid. The show takes place in a nice resturaunt and we really wanted to capture that atmosphere by having some upscale jazzy music that underscored the play. 

The ending song for All Things Go is a well known song amongst the latino community. We tried to stay with a traditional latino roots, but also wanted a song that had a hopeful feel. I mixed and recorded this song sung by Dominc Franco, with guitar by Austin Harelson, both fellow TTU students.

Reggie's is about a Horror movie character who begins to question why he has to die. The play jumps between the world of the movie and the world of the movie set. To set this up we use this track every time we jumped back into the movie.

This was the music that played during the final showdown between Reggie and the Killer