david su

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

Currently I do audio programming at Brass Lion Entertainment, help co-organize Game Audio LA, and wear many hats on Perchance to Dream.

projects | experience | performances | press | contact

projects

Cyberpunk retelling of Hamlet through the music of Radiohead. Created with Dominique Star. Sold out concert featured in the LA Times

Perchance to Dream

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.

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)

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 the 3rd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production

Fibonacci Stretch

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 am the senior audio programmer at Brass Lion Entertainment, working on an unannounced action-RPG with music direction by Just Blaze

Brass Lion Entertainment

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

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

I was a principal engineer, architecting a rhythm generation system used by the algorithmic 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 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), Los Angeles Times (with Perchance to Dream), 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, LAist (with Perchance to Dream), 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, Instagram, GitHub, itch.io, and Google Scholar.