The game ideas have really been flowing this past year! I have five games signed with publishers and many more games seeking publishers. Three recent ones I'm most excited about are Ringyō, Shades, and the Troubadeck.
New Kickstarter: The Troubadeck
My love of music, games, and drawing are all coming together in this new project I've been working on - The Troubadeck!
The Tabletop Takeaway
I've started a new podcast called The Tabletop Takeaway with my game design friends Ananda Guneratne and Trevor Muller-Hegel. We have 20-minute conversations about a game we just played (like chess, Kingdomino, Carcassonne, etc.) and talk about our takeaways as game designers. It's pretty nerdy, but check it out if you're into board games and are curious about what makes them tick.
Film Score Fest 2023
We have a new & bigger venue for this year's Film Score Fest screening! Hope you can join us for 16 new MN-made short films scored live by our orchestra.
Birthday Update
Wednesday is my 37th birthday! It's been a fun year, and I wanted to share some highlights from year 36...
Film Score Fest 2020-2021 Recap
Thanks to the pandemic, it took us a long time to safely bring our orchestra together and have an in-person screening for Film Score Fest. But it finally happened! On Saturday, Sept. 4, hundreds of people gathered outside at Mears Park in St. Paul to watch 18 new short films. Our 16-musician orchestra scored the films live, led by conductor Kurt Hattenberger.
2020 Cover Album
I challenged my friends to do covers and remixes of my album 2020. Their songs included every style and instrument imaginable: 80s synths, resophonic guitar, Brazilian piano, and Javanese gamelan. It was a refreshing experience to hear my songs in a totally new light.
Stories I Didn’t Know on PBS
Stories I Didn't Know, the documentary I scored last year about the entanglement of Irish immigrants and Native people of Minnesota, will be airing on TPT - Twin Cities PBS.
“No Turning Back” Music Video
Below zero temps in Minnesota are making me pretty jealous of the dancers in my new video for "No Turning Back."
MN Opera Commission: Chim Lạc (Lost Bird)
My good friend Oanh Vu and I were commissioned by MN Opera to write a mini opera, which will be available to stream for free starting February 9th at 1pm. It's part of a month-long series of short operas created by Minnesota artists.
Oanh wrote the story and co-created a beautiful shadow puppet show with Andrew Young, with the help of puppeteers liping vong and Ty Chapman. I composed the music and songs that came to life thanks to the MN Opera orchestra, vocalists Lady Midnight and Monique Bạch Hạc Nguyen, classical guitarist Milena Petkovic, percussionist Eri Isomura, music mixer Andy Thompson, and sound designer Mike Hallenbeck.