About Me

Jackson Richmond, aka "Optimalystic", is a music composer, audio designer, and teacher based in the Bay Area, California.

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With a love for music & media, he has been composing music for streaming, content platforms, and multiple game projects since 2021. As the years progressed he became more involved with sound design and audio programming, and currently works from all sides of audio media, including design, creation, implementation, and management.

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His music has reached critical praise, with TacoCat winning "Best Score and Music" in the 2024 SGDA Game Awards, and his experimental pieces, "Incandescent Nucleosynthesis & Continuum" and "The Sound of the Sleeping Brain" helping him achieve High Honors and the Hortense Zuckerman Prize for exceptional achievement in musical performance and scholarship at UC Santa Cruz in 2023. His meditative soundscapes on Aura Health currently total over 310k listens