Damien Quartz
Senior Technical Sound Designer at System Era Softworks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Quartz is a Senior Technical Sound Designer and seasoned audio programmer with 18 years crafting interactive audio systems for games, installations, and commercial titles. He bridges music composition, math, and engineering to turn open-ended creative concepts into polished experiences across consoles, mobile, and desktop, currently leading audio systems and FMOD integration at System Era Softworks. A long-time open-source contributor, he created and enhanced the widely-used Minim Java audio library and has contributed UI and text-entry improvements to the popular iPlug2 C++ plugin framework. Damien is a co-founder of the Kokoromi collective, blending nightclub-scale game events with experimental art, and he builds flexible, well-documented tools that empower designers to express ideas directly. Known for pragmatic experimentation, he pairs deep DSP and real-time synthesis skills with an unusual combination of artistic sensitivity and technical rigor.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Master of Arts - MA at The Seattle School of Theology & PsychologyUniversity of California, San DiegoBachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music at University of Redlands
English
Github Skills (20)
c-language10
audio-processing10
user-interface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
java10
javas10
front-end-development10
fileio10
file-handling10
file-processing10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
cairo9
apidoc9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ddf/Minim
Dec 2007 - Aug 2019
A Java audio library, designed to be used with Processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 286 commits, 5 PRs in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily worked on the Java-based audio library, `minim`. They added functionality related to audio file manipulation, including loading, processing, and rendering. Their contributions involved creating classes for AudioSample, AudioRecording, and AudioStream implementations and improving handling of different file formats and processing techniques. They also added methods for applying effects, and a file reading function
swingaudiojnaaudio-libraryjava-audio
iPlug2/iPlug2
Feb 2019 - May 2019
C++ Audio Plug-in Framework for desktop, mobile and web
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the development of the IPlugControls example, which includes UI elements and text entry functionality. They implemented and refined the ITextEntryControl, adding features like character deletion, selection, cursor rendering, and copy/paste, while also incorporating input validation. Furthermore, the user enhanced the example by integrating the ITextEntryControl and addressing issues with text alignment and cursor positioning. These modifications were complemented by the addition of the undo/redo features and text entry completion.
auv3skiac-plus-plusaudiounitgui
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