Recent Projects
BUDDIES: A Tribute to Banjo-Kazooie
Tribute Album
On April 24th, 2020, a dream my friend Zachary Kohlmeier and I had shared for years finally came true with the release of BUDDIES: A Tribute to Banjo-Kazooie! Zach and I co-produced this album with Materia Collective and a TON of super talented individuals. Each of the game's tracks is reimagined in two vastly different popular genres to build an adventure playlist for each of the titular characters based on what we imagined their musical tastes might be, resulting in Banjo's BEAR side and Kazooie's BIRD. I arranged the last track on BIRD, Adventure is Calling, wrote its lyrics, and performed lead vocals. This was an incredibly fun and fulfilling project and I'm incredibly grateful to all who made it happen! Click the images above to check out each side of the album on Bandcamp.
Dwerve Demo
Video Game Demo Score
Half Human Games is developing Dwerve, a tower defense dungeon crawling RPG. You play as the titular character. Dwerve's dwarven village is under attack by trolls, so he must travel deep into their lair to destroy their secret weapon using turrets and traps of his own. Half Human Games put out a call for composers in July 2019, and I scored their demo video as an audition. My approach followed their request for ambient synth tunes with fantasy orchestral melodies on top. While Half Human ultimately chose to go with a different composer, I enjoyed working on this demo and am very much looking forward to playing the game! You can learn more about the game at Dwerve.com.
Rollin' Bonez
Music & Sound Design
Enter a Spanish gothic casino and bet with your bones in this skeleton craps game! Rollin' Bonez was made for Ludum Dare #44 hosted by Tech Valley Game Space in Troy, New York by Amy Flaherty, Will Carpentier, Jacob Freedman, and Amanda Laven, with Special Thanks to Taro Omiya, Jamey Stevenson, and Muse en Lystrala. For more information and to play for free, click here!
Thames on the Field
Arrangement
Materia Collective's OMEGA: A Tribute to Xenogears was released on December 7th, 2018 and features 44 tracks arranged by the members of the collective, including this percussion ensemble arrangement of "Thames, Spirit of the Men of the Sea." Featuring the talents of Amanda Laven, Bonnie Bogovich, Chris Muggli-Miller, Daniel Romberger, Doug Perry, Gal Gershovsky, Garrett McPherson, Ian Martyn, James C. Hoffman, John Stacy, Liz Rishel, Marcela Estelië, Matheus Manente, Nautilus T Party, Trey Hodge, and Troisnyx. Mallets, drums, voices, and more embody the spirit of the men of the sea in a rousing performance!
プレスビー！！！プレスビー！！！プレスビー！！！ (Press B!!! Press B!!! Press B!!!)
Arrangement
Materia Collective's FATE: A Tribute to Majora's Mask was released on May 25th, 2018 and features 79 tracks (!) arranged by the members of the collective, including this j-rock inspired version of Kaepora Gaebora's theme (the Owl theme) which features the talents of Amanda Laven, Andrew Filipski, Ann Zeng, Austin Hart, Bijan Bryan Eghtesady, Bonnie Bogovich, Brian Diamond, Daniel Romberger, Jim Newsome, Garrett Steele, Gregory Orosz, Ian Martyn, James C. Hoffman, Jay Kim, Julia Handschin, Marcela Estelië, Margie Halloran, Matheus Sardinha Garcia Souza, Natalie Ay, Patricio Thielemann, Saoirse Mings, Tiago Rodrigues, and Zachary Kohlmeier, with Japanese lyrics translated by Chris Porter You can purchase this track and the rest of the album on Bandcamp!
THE KINESIGRAPH
Original Score
The illustrious Brass family meets an inventor whose moving picture contraption quickly captures their attention, and each family member has a very different idea of what the subject of its first film should be! Read more about this Battleground Productions film at the bottom of this page, then click over to the Podcast tab to listen to the audio drama (with original music by Amanda Laven starting with Episode 11!)