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Katie McMurran

Katie McMurran is an award-winning sound engineer, sound designer and composer. She has extensive experience providing thoughtful, highly-textured sound design and scoring for podcasts, broadcasts, audiobooks and other media - often using her own field recordings and music.

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She studied Music at the University of California, Berkeley and Music Technology at CalArts. 

She has additional experience studying field recording (with both Martyn Stewart and Jez riley French) and music recording (with Tony Visconti at the Visconti Studio).

Podcast Sound Design and Scoring

Podcast Sound Design and Scoring

  • In the Room with Peter Bergen
    Audible

    Ep 81: "How Do You End An Endless War?"
    Sound Design, Score with Original Music, Mix
    LISTEN
     

  • In the Room with Peter Bergen
    Audible
    Ep 73: "The Mass Shooting Everyone Saw Coming"
    Sound Design, Score with Original Music, Mix
    LISTEN
     

  • Financial Times Daily News Briefing
    Financial Times
    December 12, 2024

    Mix
    LISTEN
     

  • The Daily Smile
    Wondery
    Ben Shirley's Symphony
    Sound Design, Score, Mix
    LISTEN
     

  • ​Male Order
    BBC 4
    Ep 1
    Sound Design, Score, Mix
    LISTEN

     

  • Soundtrack of Silence
    KQED
    Mix
    LISTEN
     

  • Today, Explained
    Vox

    Mo Salah Will Make You Care About Soccer
    Sound Design, Mix
    LISTEN
     

  • Adaptivity
    UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent
    Scary But Thrilling: The Science of Taking Risks

    Sound Design, Score, Mix
    LISTEN
     

  • Bay Curious
    KQED
    The True History of Irish Coffee and its San Francisco Origins
    Sound Design, Mix
    LISTEN


     

Sound and Radio Art

  • Ants
    Radiophrenia 2025
    LISTEN

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  • Tumble Lullaby
    Current Soundscapes
    LISTEN

  • Daybreak
    60 Second Radio 2019

    LISTEN

  • Shakespeare Summer
    Listen up Los Angeles
    LISTEN

Podcast Music Cues

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