pFreim Brewery

Greetings from pFriem Falls

My friends over at Sockeye made this video and brought me on to add sound effects and make the final mix sound like a warped documentary on a damaged tape reel from yesteryear, which was really fun - I ended up using multiple different tape and vinyl emulators, which usually means I’m having a good day. Plus, it’s for pFreim Brewing, which is one of my favorite Oregon beer companies. Win-win.

Credits: sound fx and design, final mix

Portland Timbers - "The Rivalry" (Ken Burns spoof)

The Rivalry

I love this type of parody/homage project - the only direction here was “make it sound like Ken Burns’ ‘The Civil War’”. Shout out to Juliet Zulu and the great actors involved in making this hilarious.

Credits: sound design, mix

Wiley X commercials

These two sunglasses commercials were a blast to design sound for - I had to do in-depth research on the exact sound that a particular brand of compound bow and fishing reel makes, because the client was pretty sure that the target demographic (serious hunters) would cry foul if we didn't get those sounds right.

Credits: sound design and sfx, dialogue editing and sweetening, music editing, final mix for broadcast and web

WILEY X/JIM ERWIN HUNTING TELEVSION COMMERCIAL

WILEY X/EDWIN EVERS TELEVISION COMMERCIAL

State of Cheese

State of Cheese | Stinky

I did sound fx and design and mix for a bunch of these videos for the Wisconsin Cheese Board, and the fact that I don’t eat dairy was mitigated by how much I loved watching these two get really excited about the nerdier points of cheese. Mixing these was also a fun challenge - the dialogue was very echo-ey, noisy and muffled, so I got to give Izotope’s RX noise reduction tools a good workout.

Credits: sound design, mix

Columbia Global Ski Teams

One of my favorite sport-related shorts I worked on this last year - the number one direction from the producers was "make the falls sound like they hurt."

Credits: sound design and foley, dialogue/music editing, final mix

Tested Tough | Global Ski Teams

Amazon DAY ONE videos

This is a series of short video interviews (mixed with some animation) with various famous entrepreneurs, authors, and thinkers about valuable habits and practices for success in life. Aside from doing all the sound effects and final mixes, it was a fun challenge to take on the dialogue editing and "rescue", since a lot of the locations where the interviews happened were very noisy or echoey.

Trailer - Day One: Insights for Entrepreneurs - Amazon Marketplace

The embed above is a playlist, so feel free to skip around from video to video

Credits: sound design and sfx, dialogue editing and repair, music editing, final mixes

Columbia Sportswear "Directors of Toughness" episodes

This ongoing travel/reality-homage ad series has been a blast to work on - it's always fun to have a pretty even mix between placing selective foley/environmental sounds and creative cinematic sound design elements, and the wide range of location and voiceover recording quality makes the editing and sweetening of the dialogue an interesting challenge.

Credits: sound design and foley, dialogue/music editing, final mix

Directors of Toughness | Ep. 9 - Kamchatka

Directors of Toughness | Ep. 8 - Mt. Shasta

Directors of Toughness | Ep. 7 - Klamath River

Directors of Toughness | Ep. 6 - Death Valley

Directors of Toughness | Ep. 5 - Miami

Directors of Toughness | Colombia

Directors of Toughness | Argentina

Directors of Toughness | Yukon Territory

Directors of Toughness | Iceland

Animated Explainer Videos

I've done sound effects and mixes for tons of these animated explainer videos over the years. I've just posted a handful here, but if you want a wider sampling of my work on the cartoony sfx end of the spectrum, I'd be happy to send you more examples.

Credits: SFX, sound design, final mix, voiceover sweetening, stock music selection and editing

Dell EMC - Application Profiling Service

The B2B Marketplace on Amazon: Institutions

The B2B Marketplace on Amazon: Healthcare

The B2B Marketplace on Amazon: Commercial Products

The B2B Marketplace on Amazon

Emotional Intelligence - RocheMartin

Credits: sound fx and foley, music editing, final mix

SmartCoach - RocheMartin

Credits: sound fx and foley, music editing, final mix

Amazing masers - Summer Science Exhibition 2017

How Healthcare Facilities Stay Healthy

Credits: sound fx, music editing and add-ons

Introducing AutoGravity Car Financing

Credits: sound fx, mix

Cuddle - Discover More to Accomplish More

Credits: sound fx, music mastering, mix

Alliance Industrial Solutions: OEC

Credits: sound fx/design, yell, mix

Snowboy Hotword Detection

Credits: sound fx, music composition, mix

SeeChange Health Insurance Epipheo

Credits: sound fx, mix, mini-jingle composition

TalentBin Epipheo

Credits: sound fx, mix

Nexidia Epipheo

Credits: sound fx, mix

TuneUp Epipheo

Credits: sound fx, mix

Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows

Music and sound effects for this subtly terrifying animation based on a metaphor at the beginning of Nick Bostrom's recent book about artificial superintelligence

The Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows

This was just awesome to work on. I started with music, composing a couple of fluid movements that rely on a mix of organic (accordion, cello, piano, percussion) and inorganic (some crazy synthesizers) sounds. Being a musician at heart, my favorite moments in sound design happen when the line between "timed sound effect" and "music" gets blurred, and this video is full of those moments where the music catches a motion or a hit so that an added sound effect doesn't really have to.

After the music was pretty set, I went through and added foley and abstract effects to emphasize the slow mood change from pastoral to terrifying that happens over the course of the video.

Credits: music composition and performance, sound design and foley, final mix

Mentoring Project

The Mentoring Project - Waiting

To fit with the "waiting" theme for this video, I started with the sound of a second hand on a clock ticking and brought it in and out of focus throughout the clip. Then, I designed a tempo grid based on the speed of the clock ticking, and designed the rest of the sound effects and foley for the video so that they followed the grid. The result is a subtly musical soundscape inspired by some of the backing tracks from the Bjork movie Dancer in the Dark.

Credits: sound design and foley, final mix

U of O Ducks Videos

Oregon Football: Create the Future

This was a fun departure from a straight-up team highlight video - Juliet Zulu did a beautiful job with the "endless tunnel" aesthetic, and I did sound design to match the music and mood.

Credits: sound design and fx

UofO Ducks Football Highlight 2011-2012

I've done 3 or 4 of these Ducks highlight reels over the years; this was the first one. These fast-paced sports videos are really intense to work on because of the amount of foley sounds I have to match up to picture, but it's always a blast to see them come together to create an impactful (pun intended) experience of the game.

Credits: sound design and foley, VO and music editing, final mix

OnePriceTaxes

Animated parody of a terrible 80s commercial

Why does it cost so much to file your taxes?

This is one of my favorite composition/sound design assignments ever - the client wanted the whole video to have a really parodic, intentionally corny 80s infomercial feel. One of the reference tracks was a Tim & Eric sketch - say no more.

Credits: composition, sound design, final mix

Wire to Wire Book Trailer

Wire to Wire Trailer

This was a first for me - working on an extended cinematic-style trailer for a novel called Wire to Wire. Juliet Zulu put the video together, and I was in charge of everything sound-related, from doing foley and sound design to cleaning up often hard-to-hear dialogue to sourcing music. Cool mix of literal foley-esque sounds and abstract, hallucinatory effects.

Credits: sound design and foley, dialogue sweetening/editing, final mix