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Though most of my work nowadays is visual/documentary, I’ve also been doing more audio/podcast work. Here are my latest series.

  • Podcasts
  • kill switch (ongoing)
  • AUTHENTIC: The Story of Tablo (VICE, iHeart)
  • If Everybody Knew
  • music
  • the lofi album
  • free soundtrack for podcasts

Podcasts

kill switch (ongoing)

I host kill switch, a tech podcast about living in the future today. or, a podcast about how to stop being scared of the future.

some recent episodes: getting arrested by computers, why Nintendo is so weird, and why Twitter’s AI got obsessed with white genocide (despite the strawberry elephant).

I also got to compose the theme song, which was fun.

AUTHENTIC: The Story of Tablo (VICE, iHeart)

Someone once called this a ‘K-pop True Crime Podcast’, and it’s a little hard to argue with that.

In late 2021, I flew to Korea to talk to one of their biggest hip-hop stars.

This podcast is a mind-bending ride through a conspiracy theory that ruined lives all over the world, sent people to jail, and damn near got Interpol involved. In the process, we interrogate Korean education culture, American ‘soft power’, hip-hop's code of ethics, and whether we anything can do about Internet mobs.

It’s been featured in Deadline, NME, Vulture, and lots of other places. The first episode is below, or check it out on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.

If Everybody Knew

In 2022, I produced a podcast for Princeton University, called If Everybody Knew, as part of a postdoctorate fellowship. Aside from the production, I also composed all the music. More about that below.

You can check one of the standout episodes here, or listen in your favorite podcast app (here it is in Apple Podcasts, and Spotify).

music

Music is mostly a side thing, but occasionally I do some professional work. This this HBO segment about videogames features an opening track by me, and I did some scoring for KPCC/LAist's award-winning Finding Home con DACA.

the lofi album

I made a lofi album. It’ s a long story. Here’s a sample:

free soundtrack for podcasts

I’ve also released the soundtrack to the If Everybody Knew podcast, for free. Here is a sample:

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open the below section to hear more and grab the files for yourself:

as mentioned above, these were all written for a Princeton podcast.

There’s also a few unreleased ones in here as well – tracks that I liked but never actually used in the show; and a couple new ones I’ve added.

It’s mostly background music, so I imagine it might work well for podcasts, or videos.

I consider all this music part of my public scholarship, so I've made it all free online for non-commercial purposes.

you can download the whole pack here.

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click here to read the terms:

These are released under a CC BY-NC-SA license, meaning that you can use this for any non-commercial purpose, so long as it's credited to me. A link back to this page is fine, or crediting me in the audio is fine. Whatever seems reasonable to you and your project – we’re good.

If you would like to use any of these for a commercial purpose, or have any questions, feel free to message me. I'd also love to see how you use it, so if you make a project that uses or remixes any of this, please drop me a line!

Oh, and incidentally, if you’d like to hear some of my other music, you can find it here.

(If you're curious about the composition, about a third of these were written on a Polyend Tracker, then most of the rest were written in Renoise.)