Composer and sound designer, with over a decade of experience working for television and video games. Notable credits include NFL Today, The Daily Show, Amish Haunting, Alone, Pranked and Love & Hip Hop. Ryan recently worked on Iron Tower Studio’s “The Age of Decadence” - winner of the Steam Greenlight award and voted the #2 best rpg video game of the past five years by rpgcodex - and currently works as a sound designer for Children of the Setting Sun Productions, creating and sharing Indigenous stories.

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Composer and sound designer, with over a decade of experience working for television and video games. Notable credits include NFL Today, The Daily Show, Amish Haunting, Alone, Pranked and Love & Hip Hop. Ryan recently worked on Iron Tower Studio’s “The Age of Decadence” - winner of the Steam Greenlight award and voted the #2 best rpg video game of the past five years by rpgcodex - and currently works as a sound designer for Children of the Setting Sun Productions, creating and sharing Indigenous stories.

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Composer and sound designer, with over a decade of experience working for television and video games. Notable credits include NFL Today, The Daily Show, Amish Haunting, Alone, Pranked and Love & Hip Hop. Ryan recently worked on Iron Tower Studio’s “The Age of Decadence” - winner of the Steam Greenlight award and voted the #2 best rpg video game of the past five years by rpgcodex - and currently works as a sound designer for Children of the Setting Sun Productions, creating and sharing Indigenous stories.

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Education

BA Psychology at Trinity Western University
June 9, 2021
Music Education at Western Washington University
June 9, 2019 - June 9, 2021

Qualifications

Children of the Setting Sun Productions - Sound Designer, Composer
August 9, 2023 - April 9, 2024
-Created and implemented sound design for the pilot episode of “The Sound”, a 10-episode TV drama that is actively pitching to distribution platforms. -Combined supernatural, natural and musical elements to create a mysterious and engaging soundscape. -Performed, recorded and edited Foley sound effects, utilizing constructed items as well as real￾life tools and materials to enhance audio layers of ambiance, movement and props. -Edited and arranged recorded Indigenous performers, combining elements of traditional Coast Salish music with modern film orchestral and electronic composition.
Stygian Software - Composer, Sound Designer
August 9, 2023 - October 25, 2023
-Composed original compositions for “Underrail: Heavy Duty”, tailoring diverse musical themes to a variety of settings, creating a seamless transition between location-specific themes and combat music, all of which vividly portrayed a distinctive dystopian world. -Optimized time and resources by incorporating elements of ambient sound design into the score, fostering player engagement and reducing listener fatigue through a carefully arranged and compelling soundscape.
Iron Tower Studio - Composer, Sound Designer, Technical Sound Designer
April 9, 2010 - April 9, 2024
-Composed original music for three published games: “Age of Decadence”, “Dungeon Rats” and “Colony Ship: a Post-Earth RPG”. -Crafted the unique musical world of “Age of Decadence”, which was selected for Steam’s Project Greenlight, voted the second best rpg of the past five years by Rpgcodex and routinely appears near the top of many “best isometric crpgs of all time” lists. -Worked as a sound designer for multiple projects, enhancing the game soundscapes through a combination of recorded performances, sample editing and digital synthesis. -Responsible for technical sound design on “Colony Ship: a Post-Earth RPG”; implementing audio into Unreal Engine, elevating player immersion by skillfully editing Blueprints, Soundcues, as well as successfully integrating Wwise for an immersive auditory experience.
Mibe Music - Composer, Sound Designer, Music Editor, Mixer
April 9, 2014 - April 9, 2016
-Composed and edited music for 17 shows, spanning 13 television networks, including “NFL To￾day”, “Alone”, “Daily Show with Trevor Noah” and “Love and Hip Hop”. -Created sound design assets for “Amish Haunting” and “Alone” that reinforced key moments of the story narrative, effectively maintaining the thematic tension the production required. -Effectively met tight deadlines while offering multiple variations and edits of musical themes for the video editors, showing a keen understanding of audio mixing and editing, as well as the abil￾ity to build tension and support the narrative through audio layering.

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Computers & Electronics, Gaming
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