jonathan’s sound design portfolio

I’m putting together a portfolio site for my sound design stuff.
These are a couple ads I’ve finished where I took the original soundtrack and replaced it with my own music (full screen at bottom right):

bklyn street art

Saw this near Studio B in Greenpoint/Williamsburg after the Modeselektor show.
Anybody know who it is?

(link to hi-res)

Nanotube: pretty flash game

Wouldn’t the world be better if everything looked more like Tron?
Nanotube is a simple flash game that only uses the left and right arrow keys. I found it via the wonderful art newsletter/website Lost at E Minor.

Link: Nanotube

a little song

I was playing with sounds last night and came up with a little thing I’m calling “Late.” Maybe it’ll become something else, maybe not.
Late.mp3

The Future of Design: the “Biology Era?”

Found a great site by way of How magazine called 24-7 Design Heaven. I haven’t gotten to look around a lot yet, but the first article that drew my attention was one about “the look of our new era,” or what’s going on in the collective unconscious that will shape the way things look in […]

YOU ARE A TARGET MARKET

For today’s round of fun, head over to Consumerist to look at leaked “customer stereotyping” documents from Best Buy. I love seeing the crap that huge companies like this pass around internally.

Consumerist: LEAKS - Best Buy’s Internal Customer Profiling Document

Mind-reading cell phone

A company called Ambient Corporation (band name!) has developed a neckband that intercepts signals from your brain and turns them into vocalized speech, allowing for a totally silent phone call. Though the technology is in its infancy, the developer talks about a near future where you’ll be able to Google something with your mind and […]

corbu + the radio dept

So I finished a new song, but I didn’t write any of the music for it.
The original track is “It’s Personal,” the instrumental opener on the Radio Dept’s Pet Grief. I was listening to it last year sometime and a full song’s worth of lyrics and vocals popped into my head. Since it never […]

LEGO-touch

LEGO-touch is a beautiful application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, neither of which I can afford right now. Just look at it.
Via the MAKE Blog.

Playnyc-Inc: Lego-touch
(note the incredibly lame splash page, though…)

New Free Music : Secret Knives

Secret Knives is a band from New Zealand that makes swooning, damaged bedroom guitar pop.
This shit is amazing and you need to stop whatever you’re doing right now and listen to it.
Secret Knives - the Wolves EP