{"id":294,"date":"2020-06-15T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilsmall.com\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2025-02-08T19:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:24:35","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neilsmall.com\/?page_id=294","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"294\" class=\"elementor elementor-294\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-66468e1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"66468e1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ec0c66a\" data-id=\"ec0c66a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-685c10c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"685c10c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-54a4cd1\" data-id=\"54a4cd1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81a84eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"81a84eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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His work has been featured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Game Devs of Color Expo, Steam Next Fest, and Boston Festival of Indie Games. Neil recently graduated from Berklee College of Music where he studied Game and Interactive Media Scoring, Contemporary Writing and Production, and Creative Coding. This interdisciplinary education has given him a deep understanding of both the artistic and technical aspects of sound, including music composition, orchestration, adaptive music systems, procedural sound design, and programming for both games and general applications.<\/p><br \/><p>Throughout his career, Neil has contributed to a variety of notable projects. In theater, he composed an original score for Marblehead High School\u2019s production of <i>Peter\/Wendy<\/i>, earning him the All-Star Award for Music Direction from the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild. Shifting to game development, he served as the audio director for <i>Ripple and Frawg: The Seasonal Song<\/i>, which was featured in Steam Next Fest (October 2024) and won the Excellence in Audio Award at the Boston Festival of Indie Games. His expertise in UI sound design was also showcased in <i>Egregore<\/i>, a game featured at the Game Devs of Color Expo.<\/p><br \/><p>In his free time, Neil enjoys playing Final Fantasy games, completing all levels of Khan Academy math, and reading autobiographies.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Small Audio Director, Sound Designer, Technical Audio Designer Neil Small is an award-winning audio director, technical audio designer, and sound designer from Boston, Massachusetts. 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