david su

Hi! I'm a musician, game developer, software engineer, and researcher interested in creating new musical experiences through technology. Currently I am with the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab.

projects | experience | performances | press | contact

projects

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)

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

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

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

VST/AU audio plugin for playhead-aware rhythm modification in real-time. 2018 JUCE Award finalist, 2017 ADC selection

An album of personalized songs

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

experience

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

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

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

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

performances

press

Rolling Stone, PC Gamer, Polygon, Gamasutra, Rock Paper Shotgun, 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), Harmony Central, DualShockers, Siliconera, The Overpowered Noobs, TechRaptor, Game Side Story, DarkZero, IndieCade #ScreenshotSaturday Showcase, Columbia Spectator

contact

If you'd like to get in touch, feel free to email me. I'm also on GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, and SoundCloud. Let's make some cool art together!