The Pillowman
This is some of the music I wrote while working on a student production of The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. The play centers around a children’s author who only ever writes incredibly dark and disturbing stories. The purpose of these songs was to accompany the author’s monologues to the audience where he gets a chance to tell some of those stories. The different sections were cued live with the actor’s performance.
The Little Green Pig is a simple repeated A and B section that slow down as the character who is listening is lulled to sleep.
The Heart of Industry
This is a shifting score for a hypothetical horror game that takes place in a giant factory powered by a human heart. The player goes from the factory exterior to its core with a chase sequence in between.
Death of the Nature Machine
This was a craft experiment to blend synthesized and natural sounds. The ideas played with here eventually found their way into Discomfort Bubble, my undergraduate thesis.
A Bad Influence
A Bad Influence is an original play by Joe Adkins. I sound designed and composed music for its production in 2026. The first song played to introduce a bar setting and the second accompanied a scene where two recovering alcoholics relapse and sleep together.