COMPOSITION ||||| RECORDING ||||| SOUND DESIGN
storytelling through music & sound
Listen
Cinematic
LUSH STRINGS - RICH TEXTURES - THUNDERING PERCUSSION - EXPANSIVE SPACES
A flair for the dramatic. Rooted in Romanticism, yet animated by contemporary directions in scoring.
Time & Place
JAZZ CUBANO - SOUNDS OF THE SOVIET BLOC - HINTERLAND DARKNESS - ETC.
Familiar in all the right ways, capturing the ambience of a specific locale or a particular era.
Rad Synths
STRING BOXES - RHYTHM MACHINES - MODULAR SYNTHESIZERS
Take a trip back to a future that was imagined through the prism of 1980’s techno-optimism.
Shellac
ROARING SAXES - BELLIGERENT GUITARS - ERA - SPECIFIC PRODUCTION
Iconic genres of the 20th Century, with all the grit and warmth dutifully left intact.
Goofball
CLASSIC ANIMATION - NOVELTY - EXOTICA - RAGTIME
Joyfully detached from the constraints of the real world. Surreal. Tongue-in-cheek. Slapstick.
Watch
How Autism Shapes Gregory Blackstock’s Art
| PBS Short Docs
The Sad Little Fact
| Open Society Foundations
Icebound: The Animated Tale of Peter Freuchen
| Drew Christie
Kurt Cobain - Smells Like Teen Spirit
| Drawn & Recorded
Chemirocha
| Drawn & Recorded
Season 4 Reel
| Drawn & Recorded
The Emperor of Time
| Drew Christie
Walls Are Meant For Climbing
| The North Face
The Animated Guide to Cobotics
| Microsoft Story Labs
The Breakers
| Spencer Thun & Ashley Eriksson
Beat the Old Drum
| Spencer Thun & Ashley Eriksson
Brutalist Orange Julius
| Spencer Thun
It can bend time & space, hurtling you backward or forward through decades, centuries or epochs.
Transport you to places familiar, exotic or unknown.
Tell a story.
As a composer, I’ve had the privilege of working with many gifted artists and storytellers, setting music to animation, film, and serving as the composer for a modern dance company. I was lucky enough to bring multiple scores to the Sundance Film Festival, as well as four seasons of Drawn & Recorded, a series of animated shorts that brought the legends and myths of popular music to life, through meticulous, hand-drawn animation and the voiceover talent of T Bone Burnett.
If I’m not taking a hard-earned siesta outside, or hiking in the beautiful canyons around Los Angeles, you’ll typically find me honing my bluegrass technique on the banjo, or cooking up lighthearted tunes for the celebrity gossip show TMZ.
I’m always on the lookout for interesting work, so reach out if you’re interested in collaborating.
Great music doesn’t just create a mood.
