Sound Designer // Composer
Audio Production, Editing, Implementation
- Bitwig Studio, Reaper, Renoise, Ableton
- Wwise, Unity
- Studio recording and field recording
Music Composition & Production
- 30+ years traditionally trained as a multi-instrumentalist musician
- Bachelor of Music in Studio Composition from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music
Creative Sound Solutions
- Building homemade instruments, sound sculptures, circuit bent creations
- Creating custom virtual instruments in Kontakt and Decent Sampler
- Extensive chiptune (retro game hardware) sound design and music experience
Games
Music
DonutShoes
Ethan's personal, active music project is called DonutShoes. While allowing the project to be genre-agnostic, DonutShoes is primarily a chiptune act with a focus on mid-tempo EDM and drum & bass.
As close to home as New York and Boston, and as far out as Paris and Bornholm, DonutShoes has performed in a wide range of venues and festivals, including PAX East, MAGFest & MAGStock, Chipwrecked, and Boston Bitdown.
DonutShoes has released a number of EPs and singles, as well as additions to multiple compilation albums. Notably, he's appeared on chipbreak alliance by Sydney City Chiptune Ministries, multiple chiptune tribute cover albums by Kickblips Crew, and charity benefit albums like CONTINUE and Chip 4 Change.
Bit Rot
With collaborator Nada Abouzeid, Ethan has helped organize a chiptune show called Bit Rot. Currently on hiatus, Bit Rot, which took place at Wonderville in Brooklyn, NY, aimed to bridge the local New York chiptune scene with the larger, global chiptune scene by booking local chiptune artists and visualists, and showcasing international acts remotely. Acts that have played Bit Rot include Battlemode, Cyanide Dansen, nmlstyl, Maxo, Tobokegao, Low Stakes, and others.
About (SECTION WIP)
Ethan is a purveyor in all things wild, wonky, and whimiscal.
