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March 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Upside Down”

Last week’s music selection accompanied a puzzle in Escaping Wonderland wherein the player is standing on the ground, as gravity would normally lead us to expect. However, magic is afoot, and the puzzle also needs to be tackled by someone standing on the ceiling.

To score this moment, I wrote an “upside-down” version of the previous piece. Where the original melody goes up, the new one goes down, and so on. I also had fun swapping instrumentation and register, and otherwise making this cue feel like the mirror inversion of its sibling. (Follow the link above if you’d like to compare the two.)

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March 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Downside Up”

This week’s music accompanies an Escaping Wonderland puzzle which requires simultaneously navigating both floor and ceiling. (Gravity is unusually flexible in this particular area.) This week you’ll hear the “normal” music, and next time you’ll hear the accompanying upside-down cue, which, appropriately, inverts the melody.

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February 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Snowy Woods”

Continuing the musical exploration of Escaping Wonderland, this week’s selection comes from the game’s Bitter Glade region. As the title suggests… there’s a lot of snow. But there’s also fun problem-solving and impish humor, and the score tries to reflect all of the above with a wistful but light-footed tone.

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February 2025
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Cue of the Week: “The Bitter Glade”

In this week’s music selection, high strings and melancholy voices evoke the snow-capped forest in the Bitter Glade region of Escaping Wonderland.

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February 2025
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“The Expanse: Transport Union Edition” score is underway!

I’m excited to be working on music for the official tabletop RPG adaptation of The Expanse! The game draws from the novels by James S. A. Corey, which in turn gave rise to the fabulous TV series. (Corey is actually a pseudonym for a partnership of two authors, one of whom – Daniel Abraham – is among my favorite speculative fiction writers.)

Currently in progress, the score contains some thematic music as well as underscore evoking some of the environments of The Expanse: Earth, Mars, the Belt, and more mysterious regions as well. More details once the project is done!

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