david su

Hi! I'm a musician, game developer, audio programmer, software engineer, and researcher interested in creating new musical experiences through technology. Currently I'm developing Evergreen Blues together with Dominique Star, in addition to doing audio programming with Bad Dream Games for their debut game One Hand Clapping.

projects | experience | performances | press | contact

projects

A suite of interactive songs (coming in 2020). Created together with Dominique Star. Originally developed at the MIT Media Lab

Evergreen Blues

An interactive song/poem. Created together with Dominique Star for inkJam. 2019 IGF Honorable Mention - Best Student Game

Seasons (季节)

A short video game musical featuring a full cast and live band. TIGA 2017 Audio Design finalist, Bit Awards 2017 Best Style winner

Yi and the Thousand Moons

A short baa-llad game created for Nina Freeman and Josh Squires' Tasting Room Jam: Halloween 2019

The Ballad of the Metamorphosis of M. Dolly

Audio plugin that lets you use MIDI to pitch-shift via delay to turn unpitched audio into melodies. ADC 2019 selection

Adaptive music for affect improvement. Created together with Rosalind Picard and Yan Liu. Paper in ICMC 2018

Time-stretching audio along the Fibonacci sequence. Paper in AES WIMP 2017

Fibonacci Stretch

A minigame about healing your robot pal. Created together with Colorfiction for #sadmechjam 2019

My Bearer and I

An interactive song and 3D platformer game. 2017 WAC official selection

Runaway Reverie

(A more comprehensive list of my projects can be found here.)

experience

I'm an audio programmer working on One Hand Clapping, a game in which players sing into the microphone to solve musical puzzles

Bad Dream Games

I was a research assistant in the Opera of the Future group, working on interactive musical narrative and music for wellbeing

I do music and sound design for the upcoming NFL + Verizon 5G game Endzone, to debut at the 2020 Super Bowl

I was a principal engineer, architecting an entire rhythm generation system used by their AI music "composer" for film and TV

I was an audio software engineer, developing new features for their Sensory Percussion product (electroacoustic drum sensors + sampler)

I write, record, and perform with the folk-pop band. Music featured on various Spotify playlists (including one curated by Taylor Swift)

performances

press

Rolling Stone, NPR, Rock Paper Shotgun, PC Gamer, Polygon, Gamasutra, Destructoid, Variety, The Telegraph, Hacker News (front page), Independent Games Festival, International Computer Music Conference, New York Times (with Conrad Tao's SRIRACHA), A.V. Club (with Dances), Stereogum (with Dances), VICE/Noisey (with Dances), All About Jazz (with The Delegation), Earmilk (with Morningsiders), Alpha Beta Gamer, Harmony Central, DualShockers, Warp Door, Indie Games Plus, Siliconera, The Overpowered Noobs, TechRaptor, Game Side Story, DarkZero, Game Curator, IndieCade #ScreenshotSaturday Showcase, Columbia Spectator

contact

If you'd like to get in touch, feel free to email me or find me on Twitter. Let's make some cool art together!