david su

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

projects | experience | performances | press | contact

projects

A suite of interactive songs. Created together with Dominique Star at the MIT Media Lab. 2020 IGF Honorable Mention - Best Student Game

Evergreen Blues

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

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

Seasons (季节)

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

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

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

Fibonacci Stretch

A game set in one room with three radios. Created with Nathan Griffin for Nina Freeman and Josh Squires' Tasting Room Jam: Summer 2019

We All Disappear

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

The Ballad ... of M. Dolly

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

One Hand Clapping

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

I did music and sound design for the 5G game by Colorfiction + NFL + Verizon, which debuted 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 Sunhouse's flagship product (electroacoustic drum sensors + sampler)

Sensory Percussion

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

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

I was jazz department director, supervising 50 DJs, overseeing on-air live sets, and creating playlist digitization tools for the radio station

performances

press

NPR, Rolling Stone, Rock Paper Shotgun, PC Gamer, Giant Bomb, 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), VentureBeat (with Colorfiction), Stereogum (with Dances), VICE/Noisey (with Dances), All About Jazz (with The Delegation), Earmilk (with Morningsiders), Hypebot, GamesIndustry.biz, 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 and GitHub. Let's make some cool stuff together!