J. Murphy Ryan Sound design · editorial · mixing

Tools

Tools for post-audio.

Each one starts as friction I hit in a session: metadata I couldn't decipher, a library that wouldn't search, notes retyped by hand. They never generate sound.

ucs-tools

Released

Sound-effects filenames arrive in a dozen dialects. This parses, validates, composes and safely renames them against the public Universal Category System, so a library sorts and searches the same way whatever it came from.

GitHub ↗
Releasev0.1.0 StandardUCS v8.2.1 SurfaceCLI + Python library Released7 Jul 2026
metadata library search post-production

Spotsheet

Live

The shared spotting sheet for post-production sound. Every note at timecode, assigned and tracked. When the picture changes, the notes follow the cut. Your media stays on your machine.

spotsheetpost.com ↗
SurfaceMac app + any browser Works withPro Tools
spotting notes versions

How I credit sound

Echo Ecology is a small piece built only from field recordings. Every sound in it is credited, with its source, licence and how it was edited.

Echo Ecology → GitHub profile →