Calder
Checks filenames, audio format standards, and loop accuracy in one pass — built for my own packs, grown into a real tool.
Read the case study →Music & Design
Composer, sound designer, and software builder.
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SAMPLE PACKS
7M+ downloads · Splice OriginalsMusical loops, one shots and presets available on Splice.com — over 7 million downloads and counting — for use in your projects, weaving threads of musical history to pattern freshly imagined styles. These packs draw lines from Shoegaze and Dream Pop, to Cosmic Americana and Ambient Folk, through Indie Electronic, Future Soul, and Alt RnB. Listen to the previews, or click through to purchase via Splice.
ALL PACKS — SCROLL →
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MUSIC & PICTURE
NewVillager · Jess · scores & syncSongs, bands, scores and sync — from NewVillager's art-pop world to my own music, and two decades of writing for film, TV and commercials.
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SOFTWARE
Calder · Song SeedsTools I've built for my own studio, grown into things other people can use — quality control for sample libraries, a songwriting game, and whatever's next. Available to design software and workflows for other teams, too.
Song Seeds — a little songwriting game — pull a seed, grow a song
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THINGS I LOVE
my top 8 · pass it onMy Top 8 — the people whose work I love and whose company I keep. Call it a hand-made web-ring: no algorithm, no ads, just friends pointing at friends.
Got a site? Start your own Top 8 → and pass it on.
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ABOUT
bio · photos · services · say hiA little about me — and how to say hi.
I’ve spent twenty years writing songs, producing, and building live shows — usually alongside other people, which is when I’m at my best.
Music is how I connect with people; it’s been the center of my life for as long as I can remember. If you’re working on something, I’d love to hear from you.
Say hi →
photo credits: Daniel Arnold 2007, 2013
Software & Workflow Design
For years I've worked between technical systems and creative teams, building the tools that make production go smoother. Most recently that's Calder — a desktop app (Python/Qt) for organizing and quality-checking large sample libraries, with an audio-analysis engine (BPM, key, metadata) under the hood. Before that, commercial instrument software and content pipelines at Splice.
I'm available to help teams design software and workflows — especially where audio, media, and non-technical people meet. Napkin sketch to shipped app. Say hi.
Scoring & Sync
Bespoke music design for film, tv, and commercials. Please contact me for rates.
Film scores include Dust and Edible City. Commercial and brand work for Vevo, Subaru, Brooklyn Brewery, Moleskine, Samsung, Google, Jeep, Chrysler, Hearst, Red Antler, and others.
Touring
I spent a good ten years on and off the road. Most recently, singing my own songs with an electric guitar, kick drum and keyboard, through an Ableton looping setup.
I toured for several years with NewVillager, an experimental Art Pop project founded with my long-time friend and collaborator Ross Simonini. We toured the U.S. & Europe with our band, and designed a series of immersive events, mostly at art galleries in SF, LA and NYC where we performed inside of environments we constructed in collaboration with other artists and friends.
Before that, I did a lot of touring variously playing keyboards, bass, guitar, sample pads, drums and building live shows, as a touring member of Santigold, Phosphorescent, the Pierces, Fischerspooner, & the Winter Pageant (Byron Westbrook).
Producing
Available for various levels of involvement to help artists realize their musical visions.
Previous productions include: Jeffrey Thrope — Oh, Jeff, Bachan Kaur — Many Moons, Santiparro — True Prayer.
Please contact me if you feel we'd be a good fit to work together.
Event Design
Decades of experience as a technical event designer—available for select events to coordinate production design and execution.
I led technical production for the Creative Time Summit across six cities (New York, DC, Stockholm, Venice, Toronto, and Miami), and ran technical operations for the Ace, NoMad, and Gramercy Park hotels.
Clients include Creative Time, the Ace Hotel, NoMad Hotel, Gramercy Park Hotel, Theory11, Google, Spotify, Ubisoft, NPR, Credit Karma, Kate Spade, Danner Boots, Pendleton.