Sound Design!

Mad Science in the junkyard


In 2014 I joined fellow sound designers Ryan Schile and Mel “DJ Catnip” Ruder for a field trip to a junkyard in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood, where we beat up a whole bunch of automobiles, recording all the while. We turned the result into a sound design mini-documentary for the podcast Our Fair City.

Sound designer Ryan Schile stands victorious over a not-yet-wrecked car, circa 2014

Sound Effects for Beginners


I gave a short talk to my colleagues at Khan Academy about some principles of sound design as they pertained to the work I did on Mastery Towers.