About ME
My name is Zia (Ziarrah) Fox and I am a part-time sound designer located in Austin, Texas. I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018 with a BA in Music Technology. In 2021, I graduated again from the University of Illinois with my MFA in Theatre Sound Design and Technology and a Graduate Teaching Certificate.
In my work, I strive to innovate. In what new ways can I use sound to immerse my audience in a musical, opera, dance, or musical performance? Outside of live events, I am proficient in audio editing for a variety of mediums, including podcasts, music composition, and voice overs.
There is nothing more satisfying to me than the way a visual “clicks” into place with the right sound underneath. My love of sound stretches across many subjects - marching band, choir, voice acting, animation, video games, and theatre. Voice acting in particular has always been a special interest of mine, and it’s something I am hoping to work more with in the near future.
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Theatre
Sound, Media, & more
Productions
Click the images below for credits, paperwork, sounds, videos, and more!
Sound & Media
A variety of integrative designs for games, podcasts, and more!
Podcast & Video
Audio and video editor for a podcast (Gettin’ Sauced) & YouTube series (The Weekly Drip) from Hot 100 Sauces. Check out the most recent episodes below!
Max MSP Programming: The Heist: An Escape Room (click picture for more)
ONE MORE TIME: A WIND BAND PODCAST
For this podcast I was a composer, recording engineer, editor, and mastering artist. Episode 1.6 was special — along with all of the jobs I previously listed, I was a host, producer, and writer. This episode was also my senior project for my BA.
Game Sound Design: A complete audio replacement for a short clip of Doom Eternal gameplay. All foley, sfx, and emotes provided by me.
Game Sound Design: Implementing sounds in Unreal and Wwise. More info in the YouTube video description.
Game Sound Design: Audio Replacement for this clip of gameplay (Game Grumps) of Stardew Valley for a class. Music — aside from the Monty Python Intermission — is from the Stardew Valley soundtrack, all other sounds were provided or made by me.
Foley includes
-Man’s “Speech”
-Hooking a Fish “!”
-Catching a Fish Success
-Menu Open/Close
-Menu movement
Paper Media Design: A paper media design for a snippet of "My Psychopharmacologist and I". In this project, I imagined the projected surfaces to be the "windows" of the house-like set...
Video Editing: I used Adobe After Effects to make a lyric video for the song “Your Lips Are Red” by St. Vincent. Some image editing was done on Adobe Photoshop, but the majority of the work was in After Effects.Are Red by St. Vincent
Actor Voice Over Demos
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LISTEN
Lysistrata
An underscoring for an unrealized production of Lysistrata. For more about this show, head to the Lysistrata page.
“My Songs”
These songs are a collection of pieces I’ve written in my free time since 2017. My works draw inspiration from the styles of video game music and fantasy. For more information on each particular track, go to soundcloud.com/ziaudio.
“Schoolwork - Electroacoustic”
This playlist is a compilation of my favorite Electroacoustic works that I created during my undergraduate education at the University of Illinois (2014-2018). These are the roots for my ability to manipulate sound in creative ways.
NOTATION
Winter Moon is a short flute solo I wrote for a class about composition for theatre.
Notated in Sibelius.
Contact
If you have any questions, please fill out the form below and I will get back to you as soon as I can!