Music Reel
Seeing Music: Daydreams
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“Seeing Music: Daydreams” is a project centered around the creation of images based on music. The composer, Isaac Schutz, has created five original works of music for the artists to internalize and create art that reflects what they heard. “Seeing Music: Daydreams” will feature the five artists -- Aleta Pérez, Devin Yang, Amari Low Yun, Jade Chiu-Lin, and Lex Zarow -- who have each created three pieces of art to accompany the music. “Seeing Music: Daydreams” is an opportunity to share how composers and visual artists separately and collaboratively create worlds and ideas through their individual mediums and styles.
Games
Bond Breaker | Voice Casting Director/Sound Engineer
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On this project I hired, recorded, and edited voice lines for the game Bond Breaker. This project was created by the team at CaSTL (funded by the National Science Foundation), and developed by Test Tube Games.
https://testtubegames.com/bondbreaker3.html |
Deadboy (Coming Soon) | Composer/Sound Designer
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Deadboy is a 2D puzzle-platformer that follows the story of Deadboy — a terminally ill 15-year-old — as he traverses through “The Middle,” a nonsensical place that transcends life and only reveals itself in death. Featuring a diverse cast of characters with their own unique abilities that they gained through their tragic deaths, Deadboy guides its players through a series of unique, topsy-turvy lands and puzzles that defy reality and subvert the familiar. In either single player mode or local co-op mode, join Deadboy and his friends as they work together to combine their powers and wit to escape The Middle and discover what lies beyond the world of the living.
www.deadboygame.com Deadboy Music |
Global Game Jam (2019) | Composer/Sound Designer
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Save The Munbax (2018) | Composer/Arranger
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Save the Munbax is an immersive theatre/escape room experience that took place in the Eustis Estate in Milton, MA.
Designed by Kellian Adams Pletcher and Lizzie Stark, featuring the art of sculptor Hillary Scott. https://www.hatherlyphipps.com/ |
TinySea (2018) | Music/SFX, Producer
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TinySea is an educational game and tool designed to simulate sustainable ocean farming, or aquaculture, and ecosystem management in an era of progressive climate change. Players manage a multi-trophic aquaculture farm while accounting for relationships between biotic and abiotic factors such as organismal thermal sensitivity, trophic distribution, and seawater temperature.
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The Beauty of Poppies (Coming Soon) | Music/SFX
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The Beauty of Poppies follows “The Corporal,” a Marine stationed in Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan. His choices decide whether the camp runoff will help Aysiir, who assists a poppy farmer, or Vera, a private military commander guarding a girls’ school.
I created the music and worked with a friend, Miles Ragan to create the sound assets. |
A Day In Court (2018) | Voice Actor Coordinating, Recording, and Editing. SFX
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A Day In Court is a simulation game of a court case covering all the various parts of a legal case. This game is designed to teach children and young adults the process and procedure of a court case, and some terminology. My role was to create sound assets as well as hire and record voice actors.
http://courts.mi.gov/education/learning-center/Pages/DayInCourt.aspx |
Overcast (2018) | Music, SFX
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Overcast is a Turn Based Tactics game where light is your biggest ally! Control a small squad of units as they explore dimly lit abandoned cities.
https://overcastgames7.wixsite.com/overcast |
Inequality Inc (2018) | Music, SFX
Play as a newly hired HR representative and attempt to clean up office culture at your new company. This game is designed to focus on gender discrimination, and sexual harassment in the workplace especially in the tech industry. I contributed music and sound assets to the game, as well as dialogue for several characters.
Global Game Jam (2018) | Music, SFX
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I made music and sound assets for 4 games in 48 hours!
SFX Music Game Trailers and Downloads: Resist & Transmit (Music and SFX) Return (Music and SFX) House of Mirrors (Music) Pigeon Hold (SFX) |
Sail (2017) | Composer, SFX, Designer
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Sail is an adventure and exploration RPG I designed to lightly touch on the personal journey of growing up. The story follows Averil, an orphaned boy who now lives with the owner of a restaurant on a small but dangerous island filled with resources if you're brave enough to go get them.
Music Design Doc |
Mixed Reality | Composer, SFX, Designer
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Terra Inc. is a fictional geotechnical engineering company that is part of the larger GeoExplorer Mixed Reality and Mobile (MR&M) project. This is an NSF funded project that includes the development of a game aimed at improving the learning experience of geotechnical engineering undergraduate students. It incorporates a mix of classroom sessions where the students learn about the Cone Penetration Test (CPT) and play the game simulating this field test. They make decisions in the game based on their engineering judgement and submit a report based on the data collected at virtual field sites.
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StudyCrafter | Composer, SFX, Designer
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StudyCrafter is a playful platform where user can participate and create social experiments to advance our understanding of human behavior. In StudyCrafter players are immersed into situations where they need to make a decision that involves taking an action or responding to a conversation. The platform is set within a light-hearted take on the mad scientist theme, where we conceive of a “mad scientist” as someone who is intrinsically curious and makes use of inventive and playful ways to explore human behavior. Players are provided with science fiction scientific machinery that allows them to create any kind of scenario, from ethical dilemmas to political conflicts to goofy situations, and then study people within that social context.
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Forested (2017) | Composer, Designer
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Forested is a 2D platformer developed by Bumpy Ghost Studios where you play as a ghost that is running from a rainstorm. You use your ghostly abilities to solve puzzles and help animals, all the while discovering your past. Forested also won the award for Best Art at the Northeastern University Games Showcase 2017.
I composed the music from Forested by mentally placing myself in the area that I was attempting to emulate. Forested is split up into various biomes that each have their own theme, but still remain firmly within the overall world. This project taught me a lot about creating continuity between songs. As this was a slightly larger scale project as opposed to a simple game with one or two tracks, the music had to flow from one track to another. This was achieved by using similar instruments and harmonies as well as overall maintaining a slow tempo to match the pace of the game. Music Downloads: Bandcamp iTunes Google Play Game: http://forestedgame.weebly.com/ |
GGJ 2017: Story Book, Fox Dive | Composer, Designer
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Story Book is a 2.5D level based adventure game set in a pop-up book. This game was created for Global Game Jam 2017
I wrote the music for Story Book to fit with the Wind Waker-esque art style while also paying close attention to the overall "waves" theme of the event. The music also combines with various water sounds to really make sure that the image the game seeks to create is complete. Fox Dive was created for Global Game Jam 2017. The game involves a fox who uses sound waves to detect mice hidden underneath the snow. The music for Fox Dive is meant to mirror the simplicity of the game and match the calm, cutesy vibe that the game portrays. To create this track I limited myself to two instruments which consisted of violin and piano. Writing and editing this track taught me more about how to work with strings in order to mask note changes in Logic Pro X. Games: http://globalgamejam.org/2017/games/fox-dive http://globalgamejam.org/2017/games/story-book |
RePresent (2016) | Composer
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RePresent is a game created by the Northeastern University Game Studio for the Connecticut Network for Legal Aid to teach persons forced into situations where they are going to court on their own. The lessons include: what to do ahead of going to court, what to expect in court, how to present evidence and cross-examine the other party.
The music for this was originally inspired by a combination of things including Law & Order and Sara Bareilles. The idea was to create a happy, but fairly laid back sound to help keep players who have likely been placed into fairly stressful situations calm and focused while playing the game. Music: https://isaacschutz.bandcamp.com/album/represent Game: https://ctlawhelp.org/represent |
monsters & memories (2017) | Composer
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Monsters and Memories is a maze dungeon crawlers in which players must fight monsters in order to collect their missing memories and escape the dungeon in which they are trapped.
Monsters and Memories is a game that is marketed towards visually impaired players, therefore, there are no visuals for the player and the game screen is black. This track was composed with the idea of building and releasing tension which I created by slowly and then rapidly introducing more and more instruments before suddenly stripping them away. The repetitive melody allows a lot of room for to expand atmospherically rather than by creating further variation in the notes themselves. This taught me about layering tracks and instrumentation as well as balancing effects with actual instruments. Music: Bandcamp iTunes Google Play |
Bacon Quest (2017) | Composer
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Bacon Quest is inspired from Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for Figures at the base of crucifixion. The 1944 paintings explore themes found in Bacon’s previous work, further examining Picasso’s biomorphs, the Crucifixion, and the Furies.
The concept of the game is that the player plays as Francis Bacon inside the gallery containing the paintings. Bacon must escape the gallery as the monsters he painted have escaped from the paintings and are hiding in the corners of the gallery. The music for Bacon Quest was done using a collection of ambient noise synths and a two separate tracks for piano -- one very bright, and one very dark. The effect of the echoing was done to create the feeling of uncertainty in the player as they travel through the gallery. This track taught me more about how to control the pulsing in certain synths, as well as how to better go about creating different tones with the same instrument. Music: https://isaacschutz.bandcamp.com/track/bacon |