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Thank you, Game Worlds Camp, and Alicia Andrew, for having me as a guest speaker and ‘industry expert’ judge for your awesome video-game-making summer camp for kiddos this summer:) I had a great time sharing my love of sound design in all it’s noisy and beautiful glory with the class. They got a kick learning how audio can be created anywhere (ie. fun with potato chip bags). Continue reading →

Was so nice to be back at my alma mater, lecturing last week at the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University for the City Music Center’s “Music Tech Summer Intensive” workshop. Through my three-day presentation series we covered many aspects of #audio for #games, Continue reading →

Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera my first original production, co-created with the fabulous Liz Rishel, is almost 10 years old!!!! Very proud of my creative, tech, and performing team members… oh and our 100+ filmed backdrop extras and volunteers from all corners of the City of Pittsburgh:)  We ARE planning a special performance/show/ something for October 2020 to celebrate! Continue reading →

Ever pictured me in a boy band? Tomorrow evening I’m singing in a barbershop quartet of ladies doing a Backstreet Boys medley, arranged by (and also performed with) the fabulous Margie Halloran.  Check out our act, and more, at Chorus Austin’s “Summer Nights”, first-EVER Pops Concert! Continue reading →

I’m looking forward to singing once again with the Panoramic Voices in the ACMC Pride Concert next month, a FREE event held at the George Washington Carver Museum. “Conductor Brent Baldwin will lead Panoramic Voices in works by John Cage, Aaron Copland, Stephen Merritt, Pauline Oliveros, and Russell Reed”. Continue reading →

My digital presence at E3 this year is small, but musical:)  I had the pleasure of singing on a variety of choral tracks for the Devolver Digital Press Conference at #E3 in 2017, and was used again in 2018 and this week!   Very excited to announce that those are now available for listening/purchase on Bandcamp,  and you can hear all the tracks on Soundcloud, thanks to composer extraordinaire John Robert Matz! Continue reading →

The latest installment of “The Call of the Flame: An Audio Play” has been posted! Perfect timing, as this week three of our team are at the HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival, as COTF is featured in the 2019 NATF Showcase. Members onsite are myself (“Bri”), Stephen Cumberworth (“Villadius”/Music) and Kurt Peterson (writer/editor/producer). Continue reading →

Singing in Heroes/Monsters: songs of legends & beasts with Inversion Ensemble is definitely my favorite concert experience of 2019 so far. Join us for FREE tonight and tomorrow in Austin, TX for vocal works and narrative bits about demons, monsters, heroes, dragons, and more!  Can’t join us in person?  Tonight’s concert will be live-streamed! Continue reading →

Enjoying my first time singing at The Long Center with Chorus Austin. this week as we prepare for our concert weekend with the Austin Symphony Orchestra! Join us Friday and Saturday night for “A Shakespearean Evening”. We are performing William Walton’s “Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario“ Continue reading →