Video Games

Sound Designer

Currently Working On

An unannounced, cutting edge AAA game as a Sound designer.
Expected Fall 2023.

Skills

• FMOD
• Wwise
• UE4
• Unity
• REAPER
• Pro Tools
• Cubase
• Soundminer
• Lua
• Std C++
• JUCE C++

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Released Titles

Linear Media

Sound Designer, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer

Co-Sound Designer
Completed with longtime collaborator Padra Crisafulli. Commissioned by reporter Farai Chideya to use source material from her 35 year audio archive to develop a 15-20 minute piece to be presented digitally and as a part of a Carrie Mae Weems gathering at the Park Avenue Armory in early December, 2021.

Sound Designer
Sound designed secions of the full documentary as a part of the Clean Cuts team.

Recording Engineer
Recorded VO for the full series as a memeber of the Clean Cuts staff.

Music

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Podcasts

Recording Engineer

Sound Designer & Composer

About Me

Hello! My name is William N. Lowe and I am a sound designer and composer from Washington, DC. I graduated with a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020, but my life in sound started as a DJ learning from DMC champions. Understanding how to create compelling sound on my feet, connecting to an audience on a subconscious level, and music theory became the building blocks for how I approach sound design. Pulling additional strong influences from classical music and musique concrete I create content for everything from theater to film to podcasting. When I am not working in the world of sound, I am tinkering with electronics, trying again to figure out how C++ works, or following baseball, football, and hockey. I am currently on a path to see a baseball game at all 30 active major league ballparks and have successfully made it to 21 so far.

Contact Me!

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Skills

• REAPER
• Pro Tools
• Cubase
• Ableton
• Logic Pro X
• FMOD
• Wwise
• UE4
• Unity
• Soundminer
• Lua
• Std C++
• JUCE C++
• Python

Desdemona's Child

Sound Designer

Desdemona's Child (blood cry) by Caridad Svitch was slated to open April 21st, 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic. In mid-March -- one week into rehearsals -- the team pivoted to a two-pronged digital presentation of the script. One prong of the presentation was a website, created by the design team, that can be found here. The second prong is a recorded reading of the script, accompanied with sound design, that was available for asynchronous viewing for the dates of the original run of the production.Desdemona's Child is a play that was written on the ashes of Shakespeare's Othello. It is a play about protest, loss, and legacy. Our design team decided to locate the story in Pittsburgh, inspired by neighborhoods like Troy Hill and reminiscent of the script’s written setting of the Mississippi Delta. The sound design team consisted of William N. Lowe as the Sound Designer and Travis Joseph Wright as the composer. Wright’s composition was centralized around three songs at pivotal moments with the script. Building from words written by Svitch, Wright was able to compose songs that would later influence Lowe’s overall sound design of the production.With the instrumentation of guitar, mandolin, violin, and cello Wright brought Svitch’s lyrical script to life. The composition provided a content base for the sound design. Beyond incidental cues as dictated in the script, the sound design consisted of providing transitions for the 21 scenes in the script. Before COVID-19, the original conceptualization of these transitions would range in duration and consisted of using granular synthesis and techniques from musique concrete to alter samples taken from Wright’s composed songs to guide the audience through the show.The system design for this production combines a reinforcement system with a conceptual system. The reinforcement system was designed for the three songs in the show. A truss held the center vocal cluster flanked by two cabinets on each side for the instrumentals. Each instrument would have had its own speaker to avoid digital summing. When possible, speaker processing was handled by the playback software for the show: AVAE’s Canvas.The conceptual system was shaped by two major elements. There was a moment where at the end of the second song, the vocals would pass over and around the audience in a delay, and the church bells and protest written into the script required distance upstage.With the transition to digital production, the sound design was reduced to scene transition cues, and upon implementation of the original sound cues, there needed to be a reconceptualization. Because the show was no longer grounded with a stage, the purpose of the sound design was altered to assist in grounding the piece. Upon reviewing research playlists, the song "Oatmeal" by Sudan Archives came to the surface. It is a fascinating, textural track that led the design to sample based hip hop, particularly focused on trap music. The main elements are drums, an 808 bass, and mandolin samples from Wright. With less than a week from reconceptualization until release, the final sound design leaned on the script’s structure, influenced by trap music to make the language more modern, and was complemented by Wright’s composition.

Tiger at the Gates

Composer