ted_kocher.com — v2026

Ted
Kocher

Lead Music Designer · Interactive Audio · AI + Adaptive Systems

// selected credits

PlayStation Studios Logo · Composer · 2015
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50+Shipped titles
Grammy nominations
BAFTA wins
17+Years deep in the work
01Background

Lead Music Designer at PlayStation Studios for 17 years. That meant being the person who understood both what the composer intended and how the game engine would actually play it — and closing that gap, every time, on titles with hundreds of millions of players.

Interactive music is a systems problem. A score doesn't exist in isolation — it exists inside a game state machine, responding to player actions, managing transitions between states that the designer mapped and the player discovers in some unpredictable order. Getting that right requires thinking like a composer and an engineer simultaneously.

That intersection is where the work has always lived. And it's what makes the AI moment interesting: the tools are finally sophisticated enough to work at that level, if you know how to ask.

02Active Work
// consulting · training
Back Pocket Music

Independent consultancy for studios and creators navigating adaptive music, AI-augmented production, and the mechanics of interactive audio. Source-First Method training available.

BPM →
// AI music assistant · tool
Songwright

An AI music assistant built on the GMA Standard — 13+ months of methodology treating prompt engineering as music direction, not search. Make something real.

Launch Songwright →
// education
Teaching

Interactive audio curriculum at Northwestern Michigan College and Southern Utah University. Adaptive music theory, Wwise implementation, and AI tools for game audio practitioners.

About →
// band · northern michigan
KBD Trio

Northern Michigan improv funk trio. Keys, bass, drums — live and loose. Rooted in the space between composition and improvisation, where the interesting things happen.

KBD Trio →
// satire · web app
Corporate Apology

AI-generated corporate non-apology letters. A satirical engine for the art of institutional deflection. Nothing says accountability like a carefully worded statement of non-responsibility.

corporateapology.com →
03More Credits
Spider-Man: Miles Morales Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Call of Duty: Vanguard Call of Duty: WWII Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Death Stranding Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart God of War Series MLB: The Show Concord Anthem Twisted Metal PlayStation Concert (Live) Uncharted Series Ratchet & Clank Series
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04POUROVER

Artist name and alter ego. Esoteric electronic ambient built on synth-heavy arrangements — Rhodes, Hammond B3, analog gear. The working principle is that raw vulnerability beats coolness every time, and that leaving space in a track is as compositional a decision as filling it.

AIDAxPOUROVER is a collaboration with AIDA — an AI vocalist trained on emotional intimacy and restraint. Where POUROVER leaves silence, AIDA finds something to say in it.

I Don't Need Your Light AIDAxPOUROVER2025
Bracing For The Fall POUROVER2025
Gotta Get Away AIDAxPOUROVER2025
Rode Bare AIDAxPOUROVER2025
The Quiet Between Us AIDAxPOUROVERfeat. BAILEY2026
what we could build instead POUROVERfeat. BAILEY2026