https://ksamusic.la Kevin Shea Adams Music Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:13:45 +0000 https://ksamusic.la en https://ksamusic.la/Main Mon, 09 Sep 2019 05:16:05 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/Main Composer, Producer,Technologist &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Kevin Shea Adams is an award-winning composer and producer based in Los Angeles. A long-time guitarist and electronic musician, he creates original scores for picture and interactive. https://ksamusic.la/Featured-Work Mon, 09 Sep 2019 05:16:05 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/Featured-Work Featured Work &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Introducing: The Closeouts ORIGINAL MUSICMy new band, with our first single just out. Follow us for upcoming show dates in the Bay Area. More... <img width="2660" height="1140" width_o="2660" height_o="1140" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/043dc7fc3cda2637f044150b63790614eb977eee5caffbdff971bd95e488add9/the-closeouts-header.jpg" data-mid="202905732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/043dc7fc3cda2637f044150b63790614eb977eee5caffbdff971bd95e488add9/the-closeouts-header.jpg" /> https://ksamusic.la/All-Projects-Header Mon, 09 Sep 2019 05:16:05 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/All-Projects-Header ︎︎︎ /About︎︎︎ /Contact &nbsp; Projects: https://ksamusic.la/Stella-Orr Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:13:45 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/Stella-Orr Stella Orr&nbsp; PRODUCTION I produced a new record with local artist Stella Orr. Recorded on-location in a historic 19th C. barn in Point Reyes, and mixed at my studio in Sausalito. Check it out here <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cf2a9010a25a03337cf43499661a3ca6f97770e40167935fa19d616d8469a28/1_Web_Socials_KSA_9146.jpg" data-mid="246015656" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cf2a9010a25a03337cf43499661a3ca6f97770e40167935fa19d616d8469a28/1_Web_Socials_KSA_9146.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1200" width_o="800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26b8c76da89b48b796489820214617970a9ee17abc005226e1057a94a90fc099/IMG_5217.JPG" data-mid="246015671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/26b8c76da89b48b796489820214617970a9ee17abc005226e1057a94a90fc099/IMG_5217.JPG" /> <img width="800" height="1000" width_o="800" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1509d280ef4ee0e323b4480c118807ec8d9a40ef351d4d45b56073fa47ac9da/IMG_5218.JPG" data-mid="246015672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/f1509d280ef4ee0e323b4480c118807ec8d9a40ef351d4d45b56073fa47ac9da/IMG_5218.JPG" /> <img width="800" height="1000" width_o="800" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/394285e309ef0c82fb9cce3f8fd8795fe0eda235141692784bb65473a742f494/IMG_5219.JPG" data-mid="246015673" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/394285e309ef0c82fb9cce3f8fd8795fe0eda235141692784bb65473a742f494/IMG_5219.JPG" /> <img width="800" height="1200" width_o="800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/702078f0bdf38fd423b056c7a07e8ed1e708cb18a55166c8a79ea349db4bfe81/IMG_5220.JPG" data-mid="246015674" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/702078f0bdf38fd423b056c7a07e8ed1e708cb18a55166c8a79ea349db4bfe81/IMG_5220.JPG" /> https://ksamusic.la/Mandala Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:09:39 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/Mandala Mandala&nbsp; TECHNOLOGYProduct Management, UX / UI, Sound Design Product design and development for a collaborative music app built on Web Audio/iOS. This was a radial step-sequencer that allowed for multiple users anywhere in the world to jam and compose complex rhythms together. Featuring polyrhythms, microtiming, sampling, effects and probablistic control in a multiplayer web audio context. I helped define the musical logic and UX flows, translating musical concepts into specs for a team of remote developers and also created sound banks to give the product a distinct and versatile voice out of the box. <img width="1706" height="1473" width_o="1706" height_o="1473" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98111b97097872778e028c4d76baacf625f01dee55e7d6e3e13e2b83ebbf6971/112692172-c5579c80-8e3b-11eb-9379-8d4c00f6e82b.jpg" data-mid="237463377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98111b97097872778e028c4d76baacf625f01dee55e7d6e3e13e2b83ebbf6971/112692172-c5579c80-8e3b-11eb-9379-8d4c00f6e82b.jpg" /> https://ksamusic.la/The-Smithsonian-The-Ark Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:10:13 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/The-Smithsonian-The-Ark THE ARK ORIGINAL SCORE FILM / ANIMATION Written by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer author and Vietnam war refugee and animated by artist Matt Huynh. “The Ark” picks up after Nguyen’s celebrated novel The Sympathizer, continuing a complex and deeply intimate tale of war, displacement, and survival. https://ksamusic.la/Geneva-App-Audio-UI Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:49:37 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/Geneva-App-Audio-UI Geneva Social App TECHNOLOGY UX / UI Sound Design In 2021 I was approached by the design team at Geneva to build out a new Audio UX for their app. After myself suffering through Slack dings and default iOS notications all through Covid, I was eager to do create something fresh and functional. Using a hacked physical modeling syntheszer from the late ‘90s, I began exploring sounds that felt more organic and tactile, honing in on textures that were natural enough to mesh with your environment, but percussive and pitched enough to direct your attention. Working with their design team over a few months, we leaned into sounds that felt a little ASMR-y but with a bit of “chiptune” ‘90s arcade throwback, to align with their mostly Gen Z community and the platform’s overall visual brand. <img width="2786" height="2064" width_o="2786" height_o="2064" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0f18684fbfb83f1b376e5f7b238748e0eb64a5c9fcde5cef2bdb0dfbd95e8fc/Screenshot-2025-08-25-at-4.51.05-PM.png" data-mid="237463042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0f18684fbfb83f1b376e5f7b238748e0eb64a5c9fcde5cef2bdb0dfbd95e8fc/Screenshot-2025-08-25-at-4.51.05-PM.png" /> https://ksamusic.la/Jules Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:28:20 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/Jules JULES MUSIC PRODUCTION From the EP Nvrdeåd.&nbsp; https://ksamusic.la/The-Closeouts Fri, 26 Jan 2024 19:38:59 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/The-Closeouts THE CLOSEOUTS ORIGINAL MUSIC New band / new single. Not on spotify or anything really. But oh wait, there IS this top-secret internal-eyes only weblog of us kicking out the (mostly improvised) jams in a tiny-ass former dentist’s office in San Anselmo.&nbsp; <img width="2660" height="1140" width_o="2660" height_o="1140" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/043dc7fc3cda2637f044150b63790614eb977eee5caffbdff971bd95e488add9/the-closeouts-header.jpg" data-mid="202905676" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/043dc7fc3cda2637f044150b63790614eb977eee5caffbdff971bd95e488add9/the-closeouts-header.jpg" /> https://ksamusic.la/genLoss Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:41:22 +0000 Kevin Shea Adams Music https://ksamusic.la/genLoss genLoss MUSIC From the compilation Subcutaneous Sound. This piece was conceived as a process of quotation, the quote being from a small bit of Louis Armstrong's "St. James Infirmary". A digital recording of the opening phrase was recorded onto a 1960's 1/4" reel-to-reel deck, then played back off the tape and captured digitally again, then played back digitally and recorded onto the tape again, back to digital, back to tape - fifty some odd times. What results is an evolving degradation of the source in the form of repeated quotation, form of degradation known as "generation loss" where the medium drowns the message. As successive generations of the theme pass us by, new harmonic textures arise from its decay. These are joined by double bass (David Arend), piano, cymbals, electronics and guitar (performed by myself).