david su

Hi! I'm a musician, engineer, game developer, and researcher interested in creating new musical experiences through technology.

Currently I'm an audio programmer at Brass Lion Entertainment. I'm also one of the co-organizers of Game Audio LA.

projects | experience | performances | press | contact

projects

Suite of interactive songs with real-time lyric choices. Created with Dominique Star. Indie MEGABOOTH selection, IGF 2020 Best Student Game honorable mention

Evergreen Blues

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

Dolby Atmos®-powered game about capturing the songs of dying gods. Created with Megan Carnes, Colorfiction, and Dominique Star. Coming soon!

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

An interactive song/poem. Created together with Dominique Star for inkJam. IGF 2019 Best Student Game honorable mention

Seasons (季节)

Time-stretching audio along the Fibonacci sequence. Paper in the 3rd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production

Fibonacci Stretch

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

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

The Ballad ... of M. Dolly

A skeletal walking sim featuring deserted plants and pixelated dreams. Made for Phoebe Bridgers' Garden Song video contest

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

experience

I was the audio programmer on Bad Dream Games' debut game, in which players sing into the microphone to solve musical puzzles

One Hand Clapping

I was an audio software developer on Output's cloud-enabled real-time sample playground, working on features such as Kit Generator

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

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

I was an audio software engineer, developing new features for Sunhouse's flagship product (electroacoustic drum sensors + sampler)

Sensory Percussion

I did music and sound design for the 5G game by Colorfiction + NFL + Verizon, which debuted at the 2020 Super Bowl

I write, record, and perform with the folk-pop band. Music featured on various playlists, including Taylor Swift's "Songs Taylor Loves"

I was a summer research fellow, conducting data analysis and running crowdsourced studies related to rhythmic entrainment

USC Brain & Music Program

I led engineering for artist Rashaad Newsome's cloud-based AI humanoid, part of LACMA's Art + Technology Lab

performances

press

NPR, Rolling Stone, Rock Paper Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz, New Rules, PC Gamer, Giant Bomb, Polygon, RE:BIND, Game Developer, 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), VentureBeat (with Colorfiction), Stereogum (with Dances), VICE/Noisey (with Dances), All About Jazz (with The Delegation), Earmilk (with Morningsiders), Hypebot, BBC Click, 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 -- you can also find me on Twitter, GitHub, itch.io, and Google Scholar.