About The Bard
Originally, I decided on the name GarageBard because I was still using GarageBand and it felt like a fun play on words.
Now, I don’t use GB anymore, and I’ve also never played a Bard in any of the DnD campaigns I’ve been part of. So at this point the name is wholly ironic, but it’s my name nonetheless. ♡
Milo
I’ve always been really into music, and when I was a little kid, I wanted to be a singer. Over time, children’s choirs and theater morphed into a love of theatrical and narrative music. I’ve always loved listening to big dramatic soundtracks and hearing how they help tell the story they’re underscoring.
In my senior year of high school, we put on an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet. I had always struggled to memorize Shakespeare, but still loved it and wanted to be a part of the show, so I asked my teacher if I could write a soundtrack for us and have that double as my senior project for my senior technical theater class.
He said yes, I got to work, and immediately fell in love with narrative scoring. There’s something about analyzing every part of a story and then figuring out how to have the music reflect that complexity, about deciding whether a character should be represented by a melodic motif or by a particular instrument, or both or neither.
Since then, I’ve been working towards making a career out of that love, and just finished up my Bachelors in Media Production, where I focused specifically on Audio Recording and Sound Design so I could also learn all the intersections between music and sound effects.
On top of that, video games and, in more recent years, TTRPGS, have been such huge part of my life and have connected me with so many of my closest friends, so it only felt right to merge those two loves and write music for those mediums.