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- Sophie Kiarie -

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Biography

Sophie Kiarie is a Brighton-based Kenyan-German composer and sound designer, specialising in games and animation sound. She is completing her bachelor's Degree in Digital Music and Sound Arts at the University of Brighton. Her latest sound works are featured in the sound short immersive audio play Soul, where she explores seeing with our ears.

 

Coming from a background in music, her journey began as a Violinist in a Symphony orchestra in Bonn Germany. It is there that her creativity first flourished and her eyes opened to the stories music could narrate.

 

Music has always been a strong passion for her, having gone to a music school at the age of 5. Her imagination and creative approaches to sound are evident in her works such as Underwater and Soul .

Designer's Desk

Artist Statement

I am highly interested in straying away from using music in the "conventional" or "stereotypical" methods and using it as a means of escape and as a haven. In my works, I explore music as a tool to explore escapism or to transport listeners on journeys away from moments into immersive otherness. I enjoy experimenting with emotional responses to sound on listeners through both audio imagination and audio-visual works.

 

I am a multi-instrumentalist who loves combining technology and music, with basic skills in various coding language including HTML, C# having taken intensive courses such as Fab Academy.

 

Others characterize me as a ambitious, determined, patient and passionate person, always eager to learn more and be more. My works take that passion and my imagination and flourish it into narrative worlds. What sets me apart is that I am a heavenly mix of both serious and quirky, as reflected in all my works. Sharing knowledge on music narrative power in games and animation invigorates me!

Educational Experience

Speed Ausbildung - Computer Science Expert Subject Area: Software Development
Bechtle AG

2015 - 2018

B.A. Digital Music and Sound Arts
University of Brighton

2015 - 2018

Fab Academy 
University of Brighton

2018 

Introduction to C# in Unity Certification

2016

Ableton Live Certification Berklee College of Music

2015

ABRSM Grade 5 Theory Certification

2012

Skills

DAWs

3D and 2D Software

  • Ableton Live 9

  • Logic Pro X

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Blender

Coding Languages

  • Unity

  • Blender

  • Wwise

  • C#

  • Java

  • HTML

  • CSS

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