I’m Nathan Moody. I am a composer\/musician and sound designer that loves to build worlds and create mental cinema using sound in the form of albums, games, and film.<\/p>\n
I record under my own name as well as in a variety of collaborative projects on my own Studio Obsidian<\/a> record label.<\/p>\n “Ambient music that unsettles and provokes the listener rather than comforting them.” Using synthesizers, acoustic and hand-made instruments, and found sounds, I have released more than a dozen theme-driven solo albums. I am (non-exclusively) represented by Robot Repair Music Collection<\/a> for sync licensing, and my music<\/a> and sound design<\/a> have graced remixes, video games<\/a>, podcasts<\/a>, Oscar\u00ae-nominated documentaries<\/a>, interactive installations<\/a>, experimental<\/a> and corporate<\/a> films, as well as terrestrial and online radio. I’ve collaborated musically with musicians, filmmakers, photographers, game audio directors, and creative directors of all stripes.<\/p>\n My work has been released on record labels such as DiN<\/a>, ModularField<\/a>, Flag Day Recordings<\/a>, Tectorum Tapes<\/a>, and more. I have performed at one-off events as well as event series and festivals such as Binary Society<\/a> (San Jose), DigitalAnalog<\/a> (Munich), Velocity<\/a> (Seattle), and Piqued<\/a> (San Francisco). I publish and release music through my own label, Studio Obsidian<\/a> (ASCAP<\/a>), and I’m a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES<\/a>).<\/p>\n “Nathan Moody continues to carve a path that is unique, tangled, and flowing” I am also a mastering engineer<\/a>,\u00a0 a\u00a0sound designer,<\/a> and an audio editor for linear and interactive media. My sound effects libraries are distributed through A Sound Effect<\/a>. I have an improbably diverse creative background as an award-winning, festival-screened motion graphics artist and experimental filmmaker<\/a>, interactive creative director<\/a>, user experience designer, and illustrator.<\/p>\n “…an impressive catalogue of dark, expansive electronic music…but this is definitely ambient music, just one with considerable bite.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a huge fan of the term ‘dark ambient’, but in this case it literally<\/strong> is.” I write\u00a0about creativity, audio, music, and more on the\u00a0Noise Jockey blog<\/a> and for Open Source Magazine<\/a>. I can be followed on Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0heard on\u00a0Bandcamp<\/a> and\u00a0Soundcloud<\/a>, watched on Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0Vimeo<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>, or contacted via this this website.<\/a><\/p>\n I am thrilled to have artist support from\u00a0JH Audio<\/a>,\u00a0Glitchmachines<\/a>, MyVolts<\/a>, Sensorpoint\/Jamb\u00e9<\/a>, Physical Synthesis<\/a>, and Tendrils Cables<\/a>, and I regularly beta test software and hardware for other developers and manufacturers.<\/p>\n “Nathan…is all about disorientation and the juxtaposition between differing elements, and (that) makes for an intriguing listen.”<\/em> Beyond the Patch<\/a>, Colorado Modular Synth Society (Background, influences, techniques)<\/p>\n Composer profile for Question Games<\/a> (creators of\u00a0The Blackout Club<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n Source of Uncertainty<\/a> interview (Buchla synthesizers, background, and audio engineering)<\/p>\n Mixing Modular Music<\/em>, Velocity Festival (lecture\/workshop)<\/p>\n Guest Mix<\/a>, This Exquisite Pain<\/p>\n Podular Modcast<\/a> interview with Nathan Moody (music, recording, mixing, and mastering)<\/p>\n Art + Music + Technology<\/a> interview with Nathan Moody, by Darwin Grosse (music, creative process, and art)<\/p>\n Rig Rundown 06<\/a>\u00a0with Nathan Moody, Ben Wilson\/DivKid Modular (technical and compositional process, focusing on the Buchla modular synthesizer)<\/p>\n Interview with Nathan Moody<\/a>, Hypnos Audio (creative process)<\/p>\n Rig Rundown 02<\/a> with Nathan Moody, Ben Wilson\/DivKid Modular (technical process, focusing on Eurorack modular synthesizer)<\/p>\n Twenty Questions with Nathan Moody<\/a>, The Music of Sound (background and creative process)<\/p>\n A Month of Field Recordists: Nathan Moody<\/a>, CreativeFieldRecording.com (found sound recording)<\/p>\n Getting Into Sound Design panel<\/a>, AES 2012 San Francisco<\/p>\n
\n-Electronic Sound Magazine<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n-Igloo Magazine<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n-Toneshift<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n-Freq.co.uk<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nNotable Interviews and Appearances<\/h2>\n