Kyle Okaly is a composer and a
programmer.

I write music for film, games, and visual media in general. Occasionally I write the non-visual-media kind too.

A lot of the music I've written is available on my Bandcamp page.

I enjoy building interactive music systems. I built this web-based interactive music demo, and I wrote this blog post about the system I built while scoring Valleys Between.

Some Background Info

• I grew up playing the piano and the saxophone in concert bands, jazz ensembles, pit orchestras, sax quartets, and marching bands.
• I began to focus on film and game scoring in my EMAC classes at RPI, which led me to Columbia College Chicago's Music Composition for the Screen graduate program in 2009.
• I've studied/worked with/for Mychael Danna, Rob Simonsen, Damien Chazelle, Justin Hurwitz, Christophe Beck, Mike Reagan, Ron Fish, Eimear Noone, Hummie Mann, and Andy Hill. (Not in that order.) (Almost in the reverse order, actually.)
• I do freelance film/game scoring work when I'm not programming.

I write code for web applications—usually JavaScript-heavy ones.

I'd show you a chart outlining my specific set of skills, but you'd need to view this site with JavaScript enabled... (if you're seeing this, it probably isn't!)

Some Background Info

• My first experience with programming was writing short/simple/terrible text games in QBasic around age 10. I soon moved on to making (slightly) less terrible games in Visual Basic.
• I began doing web development work at a summer internship in New York City in 2008.
• I graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a dual major in Computer Science and Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication in 2009.
• I started doing freelance work later that year in Chicago while pursuing my MFA.
• I moved to Los Angeles in 2011. I still do freelance work when I'm not composing.