A short compilation of my music for the award winning animation by director Shad Bradbury.

An action packed reel featuring some of my animation music.

Another collaboration with Tyler Reeves. This film follows the story of a young man who, with the help of his new roommate, is able to embrace who he really is. With the exception of two video game source cues, which I also composed, the film is devoid of music until the climax. I wanted to give this important moment the musical payoff that it deserved. Homemade synths and static string harmonics hold in suspense before giving way to a release of motor-rhythmic felt piano. Roll credits. Check out the full film on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJbz8OjkI6I&ab_channel=TylerReeves

NYU Film Scoring Competition 2017 winning score for "Moon" by Dan Costales. For the competition we were to choose from a selection of existing short animations and compose a new score to accompany the film.

The final scene from Rahmah Pauzi's documentary, "Welcome to Malaysia." For this film, Rahmah wanted me to create a score that reflected Malaysia's multicultural society without falling into the trap of making a cheap attempt at the imitation of traditional music. To do so I used a palette consisting of instruments from each of Malaysia's dominant cultures: Malay, Indian, and Chinese, while sticking to more typical Western harmonies and melodies.

A montage scene from Tyler Reeves' "When I Grow Up." In the scene we see the imagined past (in reverse) of a couple through the eyes of a young boy, who has yet to come out to his family. To capture the bittersweet nature of the story I sought to create a "Disney animation-esque" score as emotionally diverse as the scene it accompanies. The dreamlike percussive introduction accompanies the happy married life, the Gershwin style jazz orchestra brings some fun to the bar scene, the love theme first brings joy and romance to the boy's first kiss, but reappears with a more distorted and tortured harmony when he finds out his friend's secret. Finally, the piece ends unresolved as the camera returns to the restaurant revealing the still closeted protagonist. Like the music, his struggle is still unresolved, but there is a tinge of hope in the air.