Phillip is a game audio specialist with experience working in most every area of game audio.   Most recently he was working at Oxide Games as Senior Sound Designer on their game Ara: History Untold.  On Ara, Phillip grew from a Junior quickly becoming responsible for large areas of the game including UI, Combat, and Environment audio.  He helped create many of the audio systems from design through content creation, implementation, and final mix.  Working with two other in house composers, Phillip managed several sound design contractors and interns stepping into managerial and production roles with ease.

Phillip also had a big hand in creating the soundtrack of Ara.  After realizing we could not complete the soundtrack under budget and on time recording individual soloists, we pivoted to recording in-house as much as possible.  This meant recording soloists and also recording many instruments ourselves. Being a violinist, Phillip picked up, learned, and recorded bowed string instruments from all over the world including Nyckelharpa, Kamanche, Morring Khuur, Yayli Tambur, Sarangi, and Hurdy Gurdy.  

Just after launch, we were accepted to speak at Game Sound Con on the creation of this soundtrack.