Welcome! I hope you enjoy browsing this collection of some of the more personal projects I've been doing over the years..
It's my good fortune to be approaching the end of a second decade producing video and audio projects, working variously as writer, producer, director, shooter, editor, or often all-of-the-above. The breadth of my "soup-to-nuts" understanding of media production has meant that I often work solo, or in some hard-to-explain jack-of-all-trades role, but the collaborative process is always dear to my heart, and this work has been a wonderful way to meet amazing folks in all sorts of corners of the world.
Here are some more-recent highlights:
Most of my work-time for the last few years has been spent composing music, sound designing, and mixing podcasts with Western Sound. Some of my personal highlights include: the swampy slide-guitar-saturated The Trials of Frank Carson, for the LA TImes; the 8-bit wonderland of The Big Hit Show: Pokemon season for Higher Ground (the Obamas’ production company); and the investigation into FBI malfeasance that is Alphabet Boys (Iheartmedia).
In 2022, I had the honor/pleasure of editing California wildfire footage shot by Sean Casey into a theatrical projected-backdrop for the early-music group Sequentia in a production staged by Peter Sellars that premiered at the Théatre du Chatelet in Paris.
While the Uke Orchestra I’m a long-time member of (The Ukelele Orchestra of the Western Hemisphere) was in pandemic lockdown, we did some zoom-style collaborating from afar. I had a blast editing these together from all the individual takes and doing the mixing (albeit just in FCP). But it’s nice to be back in the land of live shows.
My summer project for 2020 was producing a one-hour special for KCRW’s Left, Right, and Center, editing together interviews with 7 different people across the political spectrum, recorded at various times over a year or more. It turned into a look at the craziness of the first half of 2020, as seen from multiple vantage points.
A strangely communal project to be doing without ever leaving my house, but one that felt fairly cathartic for a summer in quarantine.
Valley of Smoke is a podcast I create and produce, featuring tales of Southern California and its many intersections with the larger world. An experiment in stirring up the formulas of the podcast medium. Available on iTunes. And Stitcher.
Matt Champagne in the first episode of The Entertainer at Rest, a series of ten-minute video profiles of freelance performing artists at home, examining how they've adapted to their unstructured lifestyles. (far left)
Birancyanga is a music video done to the song by Rwandan rap artist Ama G the Black, edited for an urban planning event in Kigali, using footage I shot on an earlier trip to Rwanda. (immediate left)