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Kate Muse
About Me
I’m Kate Muse, a sound designer and audio storyteller who believes the best sounds are the ones you feel before you hear. I build interactive audio that reacts, remembers, and sometimes misbehaves — the kind of sound that turns silence into tension and clicks into character.
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Alongside sound design, I’m also a composer with a background in contemporary and experimental music. I write music that moves between the cinematic and the intimate, from textural scores that breathe with a scene to melodies that carry emotional weight on their own.
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My work lives where systems meet emotion — whether it’s layering ambient soundscapes, shaping UI pops that speak louder than dialogue, or composing a theme that lingers long after the credits roll. I like my sound design thoughtful, a little weird, and always wired into the world it belongs to.
Sound Design
The Last of Us Part I - SFX Redesign
Complete SFX redesign of The Last of Us Part I, implemented in Wwise with entirely custom-recorded sounds — from Foley layers to environmental textures.
Cooking Fever - SFX Redesign
Created entirely from a single recorded mouth ‘pop.’ Through editing and processing, I built a cohesive set of button sounds that balance playfulness with clarity.
Custom Projects
August Doesn't Talk
August Doesn’t Talk is a quiet, narrative game about two brothers navigating grief in the forests of Washington. After their mother’s death, 10-year-old August refuses to speak, believing it was his fault. His older brother Silas tries to reach him — not through words, but through memory, drawings, and silent acts of love. It’s a story about guilt, healing, and the language that exists beyond speech.
Project OMNIS - Life Under OMNIS
Life Under OMNIS is an interactive dystopian story where every choice you make is overwritten by an AI that thinks it knows you better than you know yourself. When two citizens begin to see the system correcting their thoughts in real time, they fight to escape a world where free will is just an illusion.
Music
A small collection of my music sketches — unfinished ideas, raw demos, and things I still like listening to.
Stories In Sound:
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