Stephan Schütze
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Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles

Environmental Sound Design
Yonder was an exercise in subtlety and detail for environmental sound design. The environment has multiple biomes, with over 40 species of birds and insects that simulate seasonal migration behaviour.

​There is also an extensive weather system based on location and intensity.

Armello

Production under pressure
Armello is an example of focused rapid sound design production. Because of extraordinary circumstances the developers lost both their sound designer and almost all sound content just before launch. I had 4 weeks to build and implement the entire sound asset set  before the game was released.

This video is a general game-play example. I have included a long video to allow viewers to skip through and listen to examples of the sound design across the entire experience
Rust
Sound Design Character Study
Rust is a character study created by the talented artist and animator Stefan Kamoda.

From a sound design point of view I wanted to develop the narrative of this clip beyond the basic animation. I asked Stefan to extend the clip for several seconds to allow me to add more story elements using just the sound.

We had discussed the visuals and agreed that there was an obvious light hearted tone to the characters situation that needed to be the highlight of the mechanical character.

Live Recording Workshop

Foley and Location Recording
I have been recording sounds for nearly 20 years and my various libraries of SFX are used by the likes of Disney, Skywalker Sound, EA, Activision and Warner Brothers.

I have also run workshops and presentations on recording techniques all around the world.

VR Regatta

Spatial Audio Demonstration
VR Regatta is a simple concept for VR, but it was the perfect platform to experiment with the interplay between wind and water and how the audience should experience this in a spherical sound field.

The subtlety of the experience hides the many layers that combine to produce the final audio. Mono, stereo, 3d point source and HRTF all combine and interweave to achieve the final result.
Infinite Flight
Aircraft Sound Model
The challenge; to design and create an update for the sounds for the top selling flight-sim on iOS to  create the most realistic sound model possible.


The audio needed to sound realistic from both a fixed camera and attached camera perspective and be adaptable across a range of different aircraft types.
Defect SDK
Dynamic Music System
Note: SFX disabled for clarity
This system applies a unique musical motif to every one of the 150+ ship components in the game. These motifs are then layered in the game to create a unique theme for every ship design.


The game also tracks player and AI hit-points and applies additional layers as ships take damage. All of this as well as a musical underscoring system for scripted events is controlled by a single sound event and so only took about two hours of programmer time to implement.
Music
All of my fully orchestral game scores can be accessed on this site under the Music page.
Click on this link or on the image.
The three projects with orchestral scores are quite varied in style so
it is worth selecting a few pieces across the three projects.

I have selected a few specific pieces and presented them below for convenience. 
Goddard's Insides
Live Orchestra with Theremin
Written to accompany a game level set inside a robot cartoon dog, Goddard's Insides pays homage to the science Fiction era of the 1950s, so of course a Theremin was mandatory!
Sleeping Dinosaurs
Live Orchestra: String Section
Not every game with Dinosaurs is non stop relentless action. Sleeping Dinosaurs explores the gentler side of these magnificent giants and invites the player to experience some of the beauty of the Jurassic era.
The Zeppelin
Live Orchestra
Written for a children's game, The Zeppelin takes the player on a swashbuckling journey across the skies in an out of control airship.
Cool Customers
Live Orchestra: Jazz Section
Another children's game theme, this time with a Noire Jazz feel to set our characters on the path of investigating Mr. Evil. 
The Tides of Mars
Electronic
This is the main theme from my current project. It is electronic in nature and many of the thematic material within this piece will be utilized within the dynamic music system I created for Defect.
Untamed
Twin Pianos
A piece of music written simply for its own sake. A frenetic dialogue between two pianos determined to voice the energy of the music.

The visuals were captured with a GoPro camera while driving along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. The visuals were captured with the specific intention of accompanying the wild pace of the music.