Season 3 Music

As part of our mission to include diverse voices in our scholarship, SMT-Pod aims to showcase a variety of music in our podcast. We encourage SMT members and non-members alike to submit their compositions for both theme and bumper music. All music will be credited verbally on the episode and in writing here.


The following composers and performers are featured in Season 3's episodes (updated as episodes are released)

Credits for individual episodes can be seen on our Season 3 episodes page.


Musician Biographies

Theme and Closing music composers are listed in our main music page. Season 3 composers and performers listed below in alphabetical order by last name.

Carter Falkenstein

Composer's Soundcloud
Composer's Itch.io
Composer's X: @DiscoFri
Composer's IG: @carter_falkenstein
Piece Titles: Theme in Yellow and Beyond the Beyond featured in Episode 3.10

Carter Falkenstein is a student at College of Southern Maryland. They have produced scores for the concerthall and film.

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Luis Javier Obregon

Piece Titles: Mvmt. II: Ligero from Bells of Silk and Wood for Piano and Erhu featured in Episode 3.5

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Nykia Osborne

Composer's Soundcloud
Composer's Itch.io
Piece Titles: Slideshow and Main Theme from Play Your Own Accompaniment featured in Episode 3.10

Nykia Osborne is a graduate of College of Southern Maryland and has composed scores to the games A Walk in the Park and Play Your Own Accompaniment, an interactive resource for the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive.

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Alani Pranzo

Composer's Website
Composer's IG: @diab0lusinmusica
Piece Titles: Wanderers’ Evolution and Who Has Seen the Wind featured in Episode 3.10

Alani Pranzo is a student at College of Southern Maryland. They have produced scores for the concerthall and film.

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Craig Weston

Piece Titles: Mvmt. III: Sweetly Swinging from Glancing Spirals - for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano featured in Episode 3.5

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Thomas Yee

Composer's Website
Piece Titles: Segments from Eva and the Angel of Death - A Holocaust Rememberance Opera, Earthrise for Saxophone Quartet, and Concerto Ludus for Piano and Gameboy featured in Episode 3.5

Some composers found their love of music hearing Brahms or Beethoven — Thomas (b. 1992) discovered his from the beeps and boops of the Super Nintendo. Thomas composes transformative Holocaust Remembrance opera (Eva and the Angel of Death) and concert pieces remixing live performance with the chiptune aesthetics of retro video game soundworlds. Thomas' research analyzes the representation of gender, race, and religion in video game music and the compositional innovations of Japanese 8-bit era video game composers. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Instruction in Theory & Composition at the University of Texas at San Antonio School of Music.

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