Hi, I'm John! As a professionally trained scientist and full-time project manager and designer, I bring a harmonious blend of scientific rigor and artistic finesse to game audio production and interactive sound design. I love bringing people and ideas together to create lush and immersive audio experiences that tell stories.  

Homemade zombie movies made during high school are my roots in Sound Design & Media Production – Summer evenings of Foley with many celery stalks, carrots, and goopy consumables are strong memories in my mind. At university, I had the opportunity to direct student films and edit dialogue and audio; I also hosted an original weekly live FM & Web radio show on KJHK 90.7 called Kiwi Classics.

Musically, I played saxophone into secondary school, then studied guitar and taught blues guitar lessons... and the moment I discovered synthesizers, it was like a floodgate had been opened, and I was able to put an instrument to a je ne sais quoi sound, which I had loved growing up.  

I am currently working as a senior Sound Designer for Ssun Games, a composer and Sound Designer for Ceplion, and serve as Project & Audio Director for Dream Matter Labs.

I am open to new contracts in Audio Production, Interactive Game Sound Design, and Ambience Development.

한국 팀과의 협업 경험 및 추가 정보.
Eu falo Português.

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Contact e-mail: John@ambientartstyles.com

Professional Interests & Competencies

Audio Implementation: MetaSounds & Blueprints, Wwise and Fmod.

Sound Processing: Reaper, Ableton/M4L, iZotope RX, Soundminer, Pure Data, FabFilter, Waves, VCV Rack.

Source Control: GitHub, Plastic SCM, Atlassia Bitbucket.

Project Management: Codecks, Atlassian Jira, Notion, Trello, Airtable, Spreadsheets💙.

Additional Skills: Foley, Field Recording, Synthesis, Environmental Ambience & Soundscape creation, Creature Sounds, VA/VO Direction, Dialogue Editing, 3-D Spatialization, Mixing.

I am all about diving in and developing interactive, adaptive, and reactive balanced game audio.