Living At Odds | Slate
How To! collab with Death, Sex & Money
Slate’s Living at Odds was a 2025 mini series from the How To! and Death, Sex & Money teams about what’s holding us together when so much threatens to break us apart. In the first episode, host Courtney Martin talks with two street vendors who operated rival merch tents at the same busy intersection during the 2024 election. The brief was to create music that evoked American life and our political fabric, while highlighting the ongoing tension we face.
History We Call Home | WLRN
11 cities in South Florida from Palm Beach County to Miami-Dade are celebrating their centennials in 2025 and 2026. In honor of this milestone, WLRN News will be bringing together stories from each of these communities that peer through history to give us a better understanding of the present and our shared future.
The aim was to capture the feelings of both nostalgia and angst through the 100-year-pasts of these Florida towns.
Keeper and Killer | WLRN
On a May day five years ago, in the morning gloom just before daybreak, Ariel Poholek awoke in his small townhouse in the Florida Keys to find his oldest son, Daniel Weisberger, straddling him with a knife. As Poholek begged for his life, he told his 17-year-old son he needed to live to care for his younger son. Daniel said it was too late. He’d already killed his 14-year-old brother in the bedroom they shared, just down the hall. The tragic murder followed years of anguish for Daniel, whose struggle with mental health started when he was just five and worsened as he endured a decade-long custody battle between his parents.
For this painstakingly well-reported story of unthinkable tragedy, I tried to evoke the horror, the angst, and the frustration faced by this Florida family while maintaining a glimmer of hope as we zero in on mental health awareness and treatment.
Bright Lit Place - WLRN & NPR
I composed the music for this special feature from WLRN and NPR. Bright Lit Place explores the Florida Everglades and its decades-long struggle with environmental factors and climate change, and the scientists, conservationists, and political players trying to steer it out of the muck.
How To! | Slate
This year I created new theme music for Slate's popular advice show. The suite of tracks is meant to highlight the feelings of frustration and pressure with life's problems, as well as the hope and inspiration we achieve through discussions with experts.
How God Works with David DeSteno | PRX
This show explores the meeting of science and spirituality, and how they often go hand in hand. For process music, and to serve as a cohesive backdrop between the narration and rich tape, I created a thematic music library centered around a string quartet. Done in a neo-classical style combined with folk elements, these cues highlight the common emotions we find throughout these discoveries
Sovereign | Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
In this 4-part series, students tell the ongoing tale of the Passamaquoddy tribe and their legal right to their land in Northern Maine. The stories have a pensive and ominous tone, so I made heartfelt but static minor key music that gives the narration and tape cohesion in sound and emotion. The series was widely recognized by Apple.