Multi-platinum composer, producer and audio director. Through the 1990s, songwriter, producer and remixer for Dido, Seal, Erasure, Howard Jones. Since 2006, Audio Director on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, League of Legends and Marvel Contest of Champions.
Three decades across two careers — from hit records to game worlds.
Beyond the credits: production infrastructure I design and operate so audio teams spend their hours on craft, not friction. Running systems, not slideware.
Hands stay on the craft, not the housekeeping. Spoken intent becomes precise, reviewable operations the session performs on command — every action approved by a human, nothing hallucinated. Across DAW and audio-middleware platforms.
Fine-tuning, extending, even creating coded audio systems once meant waiting on a programmer. Now the artists do it themselves — AI turns creative intent into working systems, with no one standing between the sound designer and the tools that play their work.
Custom, code-driven architecture, asset tracking, documentation, and tooling built around a game engine’s audio pipeline — the coded backbone a team works inside. On real productions, it’s tripled the team’s productivity.
AI infrastructure that runs entirely inside your walls — the language-model agents, on-premise processing, and search that power the pipeline. Unreleased material and confidential assets never leave for an outside cloud. NDA-safe by design, not by policy.
AI never touches the art. It clears the road to it — the imports, the wiring, the waiting. What ships is hand-crafted, human-curated audio, delivered at pipeline speed.Richard Dekkard Get in Touch
Creative audio direction, and the pipelines that carry it.
Composition, sound design, and creative audio direction for games, trailers, and interactive media — hands-on and human, first concept to final mix.
Agent-driven tooling and automation across audio-middleware and DAW platforms, plus Unity/Unreal integration — friction, dependency, and wait-states removed.
Where automation belongs, where it never does, and how human authorship is protected — self-hosted, NDA-safe, franchise-grade.