Sound Design Demo Reel

Above is a set of clips borrowed from Youtube to demonstrate some Game Sound Design. Each clip was re-sound designed and mixed by Zach Salem-Mackall.

Game Footage:

1. Elden Ring- @Shirrako

2. Assetto Corsa- @Vroomy

3. Deadspace- @gamespot

4. Starbound- @EpicSmileYT

5. Jak and Daxter- @projectlongplay

Select works: Sound Design and Composition

Intero- Spenser Stroud

Zach recently composed an original score and soundscape for Spenser Stroud's Intero, an immersive dance performance that was featured at The Center For Performance Research. This score was a vast collage of three major movements connected by field recordings of the city, and sounds of traffic and sirens. Each movement intersects and flows seamlessly and includes electronic production, acoustic soundscapes, modular synths and harsh beats.

Director/Choreographer: Spenser Stroud

Dancers: Kiara Benn, Eury Germ, Demetris Charalambous

Video Credit: Emily Massey

Just for You- Kiara Benn

This short video is from producer and choreographer Kiara Benn’s ‘Just for You’ where an introduction sequence is played and features Zach’s field recordings, recordings of household objects, guitars and synths to create a mystic but familiar soundscape. This show took place during Benn’s Residency at The Wooster Group’s Performing Garage in Soho.

Director/Choreographer: Kiara Benn

Looking Inside Cosmos- NYU Create Lab

While at NYU Zach was a Sound Design intern at NYU’s Create Lab, where he completed audio designs and compositions for VR/AR applications, experimenting with spatial audio and procedural audio’s role in learning retention. Zach’s sound design work for the lab’s Inside Cosmos and Inside Cells VR apps, now available on Steam, included environmental sounds, UI and UX sound design and some interactive sounds utilizing procedural audio concepts in Unity.

This research was performed by creating sounds under a strict set of regulations and studying how learners perform based on major vs minor intervals, ascending melodies, percussion, and timbre of these sounds.

Cadillac CT5v Blackwing- Sound re-Design

Zach completed a sound re-design of the iconic Cadillac CT5V Black Wing launch commercial as a passion project. Zach re-created this ad with more detailed samples of the Black Wing, creative sound design techniques and his own original music.

Video Credit: @Motor1 on Youtube