Aria Dashney
Hi, I'm Aria! I create music and sound for games and other media. It is my passion to elevate beautiful and detailed worlds through sound and music. It's always a privilege to get to explore a new one for each project that I take on. Feel free to check out my work below, and get in touch if you'd be interested in collaborating!
Sound Design
This work comes mainly from my recent graduate diploma in Sound Design at George Brown College. I learned a lot about how sound can be instrumental in shaping the flow of a scene or the feeling of a character in a video game. Here are some of my favourite things that I worked on!
This is a scene from Avatar: The Last Airbender, one of my favourite shows, with completely new audio.
Composing
As a composer, I have a lot of experience mainly working with student animators and filmmakers at Sheridan College. I've also taken part in several game jams over the last few years. Below is some selected work that highlights my range and my approach to storytelling in music.
I'm Aria Dashney, a multi-instrumentalist composer and sound designer from Kingston, Ontario. I started writing and arranging music in 2016, with experience performing and presenting it in a variety of settings.My time in education has taken me far, with a diploma in music & digital media from St. Lawrence College and graduate diploma in film & media composition from Sheridan College. Most recently, I completed a second graduate diploma at George Brown College in sound design in 2025. Through this time, I have had the opportunity to work with a wide range of creators, mainly in the animation and games industries. Overall, all of this experience has given me a nuanced understanding of what sound and music means for a project--I am capable of writing music and creating sounds for any conceivable project, and I also have the skills to record and execute them properly.Recently, since finishing at GBC, I've been engaging in a more private study, improving my skills at recording and playing my instruments and enjoying some time with personal projects. I'm also working with the lovely people at Resilibee Studios on their upcoming animated series Doves and Crows.
Cowboy Vs Angel
This is my Capstone assignment from this year at George Brown College, which was made using Unreal Engine and Wwise. Everything you hear in these videos was designed, composed, and/or implemented by myself. I had a very fun summer learning about Wwise and how to make dynamic music that reacts to player input!
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