I'm a computer programmer, an artist, and a musician.
I produce clean and simple designs with easily changeable content. I believe in web standards and open source software. I view a website as a living piece of art - never complete and always adapting to an ever changing environment.
Please browse through my portfolio of website designs or listen to some of my recent compositions.
For this Brooklyn based nonprofit, I created a new logo and branding. The logo design is essential to developing their public image and defining their mission in the community. It is being used on printed materials and T-shirts.
The website is programed in wordpress so that Community Empowerment Center employees can easily make changes and updates, keeping the community informed about upcoming events and new program offerings.
A custom jQuery script provides a simple slideshow with easily editable captions.
A colorful wordpress design that's easy to update for a busy artist. A blog-style news sections helps the artist notify fans of performances and events.
The design is open and flexible for adding pages for future projects. Embeds from bandcamp and flickr allow fast posting of new music and photos. Custom code automatically pulls thumbnails for vimeo and youtube embeds.
I redesigned the site using PHP and Javascript, centered around a wordpress driven video blog. Social networking and a simple calendar help the patrons connect with this experimental theater company.
The video blog is searcheable by keywords, categories or tags. A custom script runs the photo galleries, production history, and visiting artist show listings. A paypal connected store sells merchandise and web video showings.
I worked on the backend of this site, which allows for thousands of photographers to upload their photographs and videos, to be judged for prizes in different categories. I improved security, made the user interface more intuitive, and added features to the judging system. Additionally, the streamlined design look was made to fit in with the NYPH home page.
I composed several tracks for this devised theater piece, and contributed to the sound design.
excerpts from ARCANE GAME: 1.) Body Machine 2.) program2 3.) organ program 4.) program6
What Sort of Christ?
The Pageant of Ante Hebraic Peoples
These are demo recordings of songs I wrote for a musical currently under development. I'm playing all the instruments.
music: Matt Schloss
lyrics: Rob Reese
Thief's Knot from Thief's Knot
Composed for the world premiere of a play, two melodies entangle over an atmospheric heart beat rhythm.
music: Matt Schloss
vocalists: Rebecca and Aaron Hoke
Kamala Sankaram's MIRANDA
A steampunk murder-mystery chamber opera by Kamala Sankaram and directed Rob Reese presented at HERE Arts Center in January 2012.
miranda-opera.com
Rocky Mountain Repertoiry Theater
I specified and installed an audio system installation at this Grand Lake, CO theater. Vocal intelligibility was vastly improved with well placed d&b audioteknik speakers, DPA microphones, and a digital mixing console to keep up with the fast pace of their repertoiry season of musicals.
rockymountainrep.com
The Wooster Group's VIEUX CARRE
Years of development have fine tuned this complex sound design for performances in Strasbourg, Paris, Dijon and Toulouse, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, New York, Los Angeles, and Oslo.
thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?vieux-carre
Zoe Beloff's THE INFERNAL DREAM OF MUTT AND JEFF
I contributed sound design to this incredible video installation. "This work explores how utopian visions of social progress intersect with the cinematic appartus, industrial management and modernism."
zoebeloff.com
Mixing, mastering and voice over recording for a trailer for The Utopians.
Original music, sound design, and mixing for a 30 second spot. This was produced for the 2012 Chevy Superbowl commercial contest.
DISCLAIMER: By posting this I am not searching for commercial or corporate work. This serves as an example of my technical and creative skills. If you want to hire me for a real commercial, I will probably decline.
Post Production on a short throwback noir film. I improved the horribly recorded dialog, added some fx and foley, and even some original background piano music.
