JIM COURSEY
COMPOSITION, SOUND, & INTERACTIVE DESIGN
Soundtracks & Environments
"Tantalus" by Eric Henry
Project: Animated short film, 2008.
Role: Composer, sound designer.
Notes: Sound design features a mixture of library and foley sounds. Character voices were created by carefully editing/mixing adult and human baby sounds. Toured the world with Resfest.
"Worlds Within Worlds" by Martha Sue Harris
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Project: Animated video by Martha Sue Harris, 2008.
Role: Sound designer, composer, stop motion animator.
Notes: Presented as part of Martha Sue's installation "Interior Worlds" at The Lab in San Francisco, CA. Collaborated with Radius (Jeff Ray and Mark Edwards) on the music. Shot and animated the short stop motion section of the swan head in the middle. Selected as a Staff Pick on vimeo.
"Botanica Beluosa" by Martha Sue Harris
Project: Fabric art and mixed media installation by Martha Sue Harris, 2005.
Role: Sound designer, sound installation.
Notes: Presented at National Product Gallery in San Francisco, CA, 2005. Installation included a large fabric sculpture of a fantastical botanical landscape. Created an imaginary sonic environment to match. All sounds created by manipulating human voices. Also designed the speaker setup and sculpted the speaker displays.
LeapFrog's "Ozzie and Mack"
Project: Tag Interactive Story Book, 2008
Role: Audio Lead, Composer, Sound Designer.
Notes: Created audio for the entire book, including the audiobook version, as excerpted here.
Polaroid Joycam
Project: Advertising Campaign, 1999
Role: Composer, Audio Producer.
Notes: Created several pieces of music in a variety of directions for a Polaroid Joycam campaign.
LeapFrog's "A Surprise for Scout"
Project: LeapReader Junior book, 2011. DVD extra, 2013.
Role: Audio Lead, composer, sound designer.
Notes: Originally produced the audio for this interactive board book. The story was repurposed as a DVD extra on a Scout DVD with the soundtrack heard above.