The Sounds

Compiled 25+ hour and thirty-minute full show files consisting of news segments, music, and KUCI News' weekly podcast "The Pub" to be broadcast on-air every Monday. 

Led 10 students from the audio engineering team on their weekly radio segments with assigned news interns.

• • Developed final quarter projects for the audio engineering team to demonstrate their skills in sound designing and narrating.

Selected royalty-free music to accompany news segments and as filler for full shows from Pixabay and Free Music Archive.

Edited 55+ news segments with unique music and sound bites from freesound.org based on the show's content and the news intern's direction.

• • Collaborated weekly with assigned interns on their segments for "Pulp News" (KUCI News' show on Orange County news) or "Campus Skinny" (KUCI News' show on UCI news).

Participated in and edited "The Pub", KUCI News' 30-minute weekly podcast on varying topics hosted by KUCI News staff.

Composed a 2-minute flamenco-inspired piece featuring a distorted classical guitar and layered vocals for the game’s main menu.

• • Vocals and castanets by Ed Slee.

  • Guitar playing by me, slowed down in Ableton Live 11 to sound unnatural and choppy.

Produced a 3-minute looping piece consisting of 20 total tracks for the game's final boss battle. The final song consisted of:

• • 10 vocal tracks: 1 female lead vocal, 3 female chord building (third, fifth, and octave) tracks, 1 female lead harmony track, 1 female vocal loop track ("Cervus"), 1 male accompanying vocal, and 3 male ad-lib tracks.

    • • Male vocals by Ed Slee.

  • 3 woodwind tracks: 1 flute and 2 clarinets.

  • 1 brass track: 1 horn quartet.

  • 4 string tracks: 1 upright bass, 1 legato cello, 1 spiccato violin, and 1 spiccato violin. 

  •  2 percussion tracks: 1 drum kit and 1 tubular bells.

    • • Percussion produced by Tim Kashani.

Produced 63 audio files for the game's ambience/music, accompanying video audio, and sound effects (SFX).

• • Ambience/Music: 3 files for the main menu, in-game ambience, and game credits. 

  • Android SFX + Dialogue: 21 files based on the android's proximity to the player.

  • Game SFX: 34 files for player movement, actions, and user interface (UI). 

  • Video Audio: 5 files for 1 intro video, 3 jumpscares, and 1 ending video.

Created 13 audio files for the game's ambience/music, accompanying video audio, and sound effects (SFX).

• • Ambience/Music: 2 files for the main menu and in-game ambience.

    • • The main menu theme is a slightly modified version of the "Drunken Sailor" sea shanty with string pizzicato, topped with EQ filters and vinyl cracking sounds to create a vintage sound.

  • Game SFX: 11 files for player actions and UI.