Sonny Champagne and the BillionAIres is a music project centered on documenting and amplifying the environmental rollbacks and irreparable harms being done on the American people through song. Executive Orders since the 47th president’s inauguration in January 2025 have rolled back significant environmental protections. The project aims to write a song for each executive order harming the environment.
Category Archives: Music
Heavy Impacts Vol. 1
Heavy Impacts Vol. 1 is part of the HD Music Now production library on the Lotus Trailer SFX label. The tracks are original sound designed trailer-ready impact hits. From risers and tension swells to reverberant impacts, there are over 100 thunderous hits punctuated by dramatic energy and surrounded by expansive space and tails.
Let It Rip!
My son enjoys playing Bey Blades, which are spinning toys that bang and smash into one another within a plastic made arena. I spent countless hours with my son spinning away, where he often cajoled me into playing as a second whenever his friends were not available. Easily enough, I found myself immersed in his imagined world of Beys.
Typical play pits two Beys against each other in a “battle”, where the longest standing wins. Recording sounds from these toys during game play and descriptions my son gave of imagined sound worlds, I curiously followed his interest and the dichotomy between the real and the imaginary. These threads helped form the backbone of the piece, in which I travel back and forth between realistic game play and constructed hyper real sound of cinematic action/tournaments. “Let it Rip” intertwines the playfulness, competitive nature, and the theatre of these toys and their action.
Audio here is a binaural stereo version of the 7.1 multichannel work. Contact for programming the full fixed media work.
Performances
- New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), June 25, 2026.
- Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), University of Texas, San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, May 20, 2026.
- Electronic Music Midwest (EMM), Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, Mar 13, 2026.
- Future Music Oregon (FMO), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Nov 22, 2025.
Music for Media Sampler
A sampler of work for sync. My music fuses electronic and acoustic elements that explore different ways of expression and storytelling.
I primarily work in electronic underscore and sound design.
Cybernetic Classic
Composed and mixed by me in the box using Logic Pro X. Mastered by Thaddeus Moore at Liquid Mastering.
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The Assembly Line
Sub-Kick Mic
I had some leftover parts and speakers from sound art projects, so I decided to make a sub-kick mic.
I used a 6.5″ driver, a XLR Male end, a few feet of audio cable, and I custom build a mic clip for the mic using a 3/8″ to 5/8″ mic screw adapter, scrap wood, and some scrap metal.
Solder the XLR pin 2 to positive terminal (+) and pin 3 to the negative terminal (-). Cut off the ground (other posts state one could solder this to the speaker). I used spade speaker connectors so I could reuse the speaker for another project if I needed to.
For the stand, I had old rack ears that I screwed into a 2×4 that the magnet of the speaker clings to and the simple ledge helps brace the speaker. For the mic clip, I screwed in a 3/8″ to 5/8″ mic screw adapter. If necessary, one can add screws to further assist the magnetic hold onto the clip (see image below).
That’s it! No need to add a -20dB pad. You can use line input if necessary or pad it up on the mic preamp. I tested using my DIY Lola Mic Pre from Hairball Audio. Audio recordings are forthcoming…
Random Playback Vol. 1: Rhythmcremental
Are streaming services ready for dynamic random-order concept albums?
Random Playback is a music album that explores using dynamically looped playback to generate a unique listening experience for your own device (and which never ends). The album leverages streaming technology to randomly playback material endlessly and aims to simultaneously test the boundaries of streaming services’ “gapless playback“ feature. Just hit shuffle, repeat, and play.*
Listen on Spotify.
Listen on Amazon Music.
Listen on Apple.
*phone apps for Amazon Music and Apple services are the most seamless for shuffle playback.
UPDATE 9/21/21: While Spotify is seamless on chronological, non-shuffle playback, Spotify seems to falter if randomizing playback (confirmed by other users). Amazon Music Unlimited, however, seems to handle randomization playback well, nearly seamless (from the phone app). Apple Music also has seamless shuffle playback from the phone app. That said, any browser playback has terrible audio drops between songs on shuffle mode for all services.
The source material was generated and recorded with permission from playing an iOS clicker game, Rhythmcremental, created by Batta (Simon Hutchinson and Paul Turowski). Huge shout out to Simon and Paul. And do check out their game. It’s addictive.
Sunken Shoreline
Sunken Shoreline (edited, mixed, and released 2021) captures a 2014 performance of climate-related tweets from around the world in realtime (#climatechange, #tarsands, #environment, fracking, #sustainable, among others), the year before the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) formed a “Charter for Sound” to emphasize sound as a critical signifier in environmental health. Mapping characteristics of these tweets to sonic parameters, users from around the world sound out a call for our climate. Here, an array of audio processing submerges these sonic voices under a technological deluge that suggests an Atlantian future should we choose to ignore the calls to action.
Sunken Shoreline was a winner in the International Coastal Futures Ecoacoustic Music Competition held by the Coastal Futures Conservatory at the University of Virginia in partnership with EcoSono not-for-profit.
The competition awarded nine prizes in the areas of field recording, live performance, and sonification, and the competition “aims to discover and recognize new music and sound art focused on the theme of coastal futures.” Sunken Shoreline was one of two awarded in the Sonification category. Winners of the competition were from Norway/UK, Australia, Canada, Portugal, South Korea, and the US.
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Monster Rotations
Much of the album sound design was made using Symbolic Sound Kyma.
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