Hi, I'm Sam, I'm 17 years old and live in England. I enjoy making & recording music, developing apps, and designing stuff. I have recently started to look into web design. This portfolio contains some samples of my work, and is continually updated whenever I finish something awesome that I just can't wait to share.
Feel free to contact me using the form below. I'm open to opportunities for work. I'm best at stuff to do with music, video, programming, and design, but I'm willing to try new things and 'broaden my horizons' as they say.
Tech Skills
Audio Playing, recording, producing100%
Design Photoshop, UI design90%
Programming Objective-C, Pascal/Delphi80%
Video Filming, editing, effects60%
HTML5 / CSS3 Basic web stuff50%
Stuff I Do
Audio
I play mainly piano, guitar and drums, and can make some sort of useful noise out of most other instruments. Logic Studio is my program of choice for audio recording, editing and production.
Video
Recently I started getting into video when some friends wanted a music video produced for their coursework at school. I use the Final Cut suite for video, and Logic for sound.
Programming
I started programming for iOS in late 2009, and have since released 3 apps on to the iTunes App Store. I am completely self taught, and hope to soon reach a professional standard.
"Here's to the Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore
them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them
as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world - are the ones who DO!" - Steve Jobs, Apple Computers
Livemau5 Ghosts 'n' Strobe
February 2011 | Logic Pro, Ableton Live
A fully live performance/mashup of Deadmau5 songs. Originally created as a 'proof-of-concept'. I performed this at Southampton Guildhall on 28th February 2011.
The hardware used was a MacBook, Korg K25 and Korg NanoPad. I used Logic Pro for the sounds and samples from ES2, EXS24 and Massive, running through ReWire into Ableton Live for the looping.
Custom Made Culture
December 2010 - February 2011 | Pro Tools, Logic Pro
A couple of friends, Matt Burton and Alex Freemantle, asked me to record a song for their Geography coursework.
We recorded their vocals using Pro Tools in our school's studio. I took it home and mixed it on Logic Pro. We then filmed the video at my house, this was my first real video project.
The Cave 'French-Electro-House-Pop' Remix
May - August 2011 | Pro Tools, Logic Pro
My friend, Toby Alexander, and I won a recording session at Southampton Solent University as a prize at our school's "Battle Of The Bands" competition.
We recorded our acoustic cover of The Cave by Mumford & Sons, and I created this remix of our cover. It also features Katie Bickle and Tasha Cope on backing vocals.
You Make Me Feel Sexy Mashup
15th November 2011 | Logic Pro
One evening I was talking to a friend who suggested I do a mashup of the songs 'Sexy And I Know It' by LMFAO and 'You Make Me Feel' by Cobra Starship . This is the result.
It's a fairly simple mashup, it only took me 3 hours, but it sounds pretty cool.
The Island Remix competition entry
October 2010 | Logic Pro
In late 2010, Pendulum ran a competition to create a remix of their track 'The Island'. This was my entry for it.
This was probably the first time I had created a track for someone other than myself. The winner of the competition, Madeon, has since gone on to work with Deadmau5, and create his own music. He's awesome, so go check him out.
All The Right Moves Instrumental
September 2011 | Logic Pro
A friend needed some music for her GCSE dance performance, so I created this instrumental version of 'All The Right Moves' by One Republic.
I used some of the original audio where there was no vocals, and recorded the extra piano, guitar, violins and some other small parts.
Don't Stop Me Now Cover
March - July 2011 | Pro Tools, Logic Pro
In my final year at secondary school, I had this idea to record all the musicians in my year and create a collaboration sort of thing, similar to Live Aid.
It turned out not quite as awesome as I'd hoped, but it was still good. Full credits in the description on Soundcloud.
"BEATS" & "BEATS HD" iOS APPS
Drumming app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
These were my first iOS Apps to be released on the App Store. They're fairly basic at the moment, but I'm hoping to work on them soon and add lots of requested features.
Buy Beats for iPhone & iPod Touch and Beats HD for iPad on the App Store.
"SHOOT THE ALIENS" iOS APP
Action game loosely based on Space Invaders
This game started out as a flash game I created in 2008 during a particularly boring ICT lesson when I was supposed to be making a presentation about safe use of the internet.
I'm currently working on adding much more awesome stuff, so buy it now while it's cheap!
Wildern School Planner/Organiser App
Replacing the paper Student Planner
I'm working with IT technicians at my old school to create a student planner/organiser app.
I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about it, but it's my biggest app project so far.
Part of the course is programming in Pascal/Delphi.
SOUND EFFECTS CUSTOM iOS APP
Created for a production of "We Will Rock You"
Designed for use by the sound technician for precision triggering and control of sound effects. It has buttons to start and stop playback, individual volume controls, a "panic" button and 3 banks of sounds.
I am working on making this into a fully fledged app, usable in any show or school production. Look out for it during 2012!
VideoSong Website Info & Sign-Up
Created in RapidWeaver
Website used to publicise the VideoSong which ended up becoming the "Don't Stop Me Now" cover (see "Audio & Video" section above).
I can't reveal too much about this at the moment, but this awesome band commissioned me to make a website for them.
This is my first website project working for a client which is very exciting. I'll explain more and link to it when it's finished and the band are ready to release it.
"Evok" Branding Graphic Design
Clothing retailer branding, label/tag
Designed for a college coursework assignment. It had to include things like a barcode, price and other typical label stuff.
I tried to make it look quite photorealistic, using textures and reference images of Hollister and other 'luxury' brand labels.
Ed Sheeran Artwork Graphic Design
CD Album Artwork/Front Cover
Created for a competition run by BBC Introducing in December 2009. I guess you could say I'm a hipster for Ed Sheeran, I was listening to him for over a year before his album got to number one.
