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Chris BØLT
@bolttracks.bsky.social
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Audio Implementer at @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social
Sound designer. REAPER nerd.
@Gameaudioboston.bsky.social organizer.
Berkshire County, MA. 🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈
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https://bolttracks.com
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Thanks AI. 🤡
A ram kit that used to go for between about $200 to $259 now costing $930
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Somebody pinch me! Ghost of Yōtei is nominated for Best Audio Design and Best Score at The Game Awards alongside nominations for Best Narrative, Best Performance (@erikaishii.bsky.social), Best Art Direction, Best Game Direction, and Best Adventure Game 🥺🥺
#gameaudio #sounddesign #ghostofyotei
Best audio design: Ghost of Yōtei Best score & music: Toma Otowa for Ghost of Yōtei
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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At Babson College’s Sorensen Center designing audio and setting up cues for next week’s premiere of Ada by @aeneashemphill.bsky.social.
Sound desig for theater has been a fun new challenge and the cast and crew have been a blast to work with so far. Can’t wait to see and hear it all come together ❤️
Left to right: An iMac and a windows laptop next to each either, the former showing a cue list in the show control software Qlab, the laptop showing Reason 13’s DAW interface. A sparsely lit theater stage can be seen in the background.
October 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Super psyched about the #GhostOfYotei ink courtesy of Mitch Champagne at Nimbus Tattoo (ATL, GA) 😻💛
Also shoutout to @erikaishii.bsky.social for indulging my tattoo reveal😹
A lower sleeve tattoo depicting Ghost of yotei’s protagonist, Atsu, about to unsheathe one of her katanas with a stance inspired by the duel intro cutscenes in the game, the name of the Snake being crossed off the sash she wears on her hip, listing the names of the Yōtei Six in kanji. Ghost of Yōtei lead actress Erika Ishii seeing said tattoo for the first time Erika and myself posing for a photo.
October 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The day has come, Ghost of Yōtei is out in the world 🥹
It’s been an absolute honor being able to contribute to its soundscape alongside @audiogre.bsky.social, @chrissoundsrad.com, Josh Lord, @greydavenport.bsky.social, Jessie Chang, and everyone at PlayStation Studios and beyond 💛
AUDIO REV. DR. BRADLEY D MEYER CHRISTOPHER BOLTE JESSIE CHANG GREY DAVENPORT JOSH LORD CHRIS WALASEK ANDREW BURESH SONIA CORONADO ADAM LIDBETTER DEDRICK SARZABA ADDITIONAL RUDIO JASPER CORCORAN ERIK BUENSUCESO SAFAR BAKE PETER HANSON PETE REED BENJAMIN GEDRON-SMITH RORY GIVEN KEVIN MCCLELLAND RYAN SCHAAD TED KOCHER MONTY MUDD SCOTT SHOEMAKER KELVIN YUEN JERIC CHAPMAN MATTHEW WILLIAMSON A view of Mt Yotei from a cliff edge on the opposite side of a grassy valley nestle in morning fog. A black and white screenshot of an ancient Japanese graveyard during a cloudy day with an imposing Mt. Yotei towering in the background
October 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Seeing @erikaishii.bsky.social as real-life Atsu onstage at TGS is definitely a highlight of my year 😻⚔️
#tokyogameshow #ghostofyotei
Erika Ishii, the actor portraying the character Atsu in Ghost of Yōtei taking the stage at Tokyo Game Show in a faithful recreation of their in game outfit.
September 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Data storage used to be so much more badass.
#vintagesony
A vintage Sony instrumentation reel to reel tape deck used to store 8 tracks of data as FM-modulated signals.
September 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Playing Death Stranding 1&2 back to back was an absolutely wild and incredible ride and this cameo is obviously the cherry on top 🥲🥲
#GhostOfYotei #kojimaproductions
Sam Porter Bridges in front of a blurry, snowy landscape, wearing Atsu’s white kintsugi mask from Ghost of Yōtei.
September 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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If you’re going to #gamesoundcon this year you do not want to miss Josh Lord & @audiogre.bsky.social’s talk about some of the amazing tools and systems that helped our audio team bring the immersive soundscape in #GhostOfYotei to life ⚔️
#gameaudio #sounddesign #gamedev
Wednesday, October 29th Advanced Systems Design in Ghost of Yötei Sound Design & Technology © 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM • Academy 3 Description This talk will highlight some of the key ways the audio team at Sucker Punch strove to push the soundscape of Ghost of Yötei through calculated tool development and systems design. Using Ghost of Tsushima as a jumping off point, we will describe the ways we improved on our existing systems and how we focused our work on doing more with less. We will highlight some of the core systems that were drastically overhauled and improved for this sequel, and do a mini-deep dive into each system, giving audience members a glimpse into our workflow, and ideas to improve their own systems. We will pinpoint how these new systems improvements came to be, why we chose them for scrutiny, and how we overhauled them to create simpler systems that sounded better, and were easier to implement, than the previous game. Systems explored will include: situational ambience, foley, combat, and waterways. The talk will also explore how the evolution of systems propagated further and further out as the project progressed. What started as one change in one system, spidered out to add functionality across other areas of the game. Takeaway: Audience members should come away from this talk with an understanding of how the Sucker Punch audio team crafted the soundscape of Ghost of Yotei, and have some inspirational ideas for how to roll some of these concepts into their own workflows. Speakers • Rev. Dr. Bradley_D Meyer, Sucker Punch Productions, Audio Director • Josh Lord, Sucker Punch Productions - Playstation, Senior Staff
September 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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When I say working on my website is like a hobby to me, this is what I mean 🤣
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August 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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GameAudioLearning's new mentorship portal is now in Beta access and I'm excited to be in the company of all these amazing colleagues! Needless to say, feel free to reach out to me if you want to chat about career building, craft, & more ❤️
beta.gameaudiolearning.com/cafe/mentors
A screenshot of the new game audio learning mentorship portal
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This is why the #fieldrecording community rocks: DiY projects like this, Nathan Smith’s “Foley Flinger 1000” aka a device that lets you whirl around pretty much anything for the sake of making it WHOOSH 👾
The Foley flinger and its components laid out on a table, various hooks, bullroarers, and other contraptions that attach to the device and can be whirled around thanks to a solid ball bearing mounted on a sturdy handle.
August 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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We’re just two months away from the launch of #GhostOfYotei 💛⚔️💛

#gamedev #gameaudio
Ghost of yotei’s protagonist, Atsu, drawing her katana in a cinematic duel opening shot set against a thunderstorm with lightning striking in the background. She wears a yellow kimono and wide circular straw hat
August 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Psyched to try out the positively tiny Sonorous Objects SO.3 cardioid microphones. On paper they offer solid noise levels, frequency response above 20 kHz, and this setup fits snugly inside of a Rycote BBG thanks to this magnetic mount system 👾
#sounddesign #gameaudio #fieldrecordings
Two tiny microphones in a X/Y arrangement on a 3D printed mount
July 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Let me tell you, the team was collectively ✨hootin’ & hollerin’✨ when this collab was first revealed.
@suckerpunchprod.bsky.social & #ShinichiroWatanabe (director of #SamuraiChamploo ) bring you:
⚔️ Watanabe Mode ⚔️
… or “Lo-Fi beats to serve revenge at the edge of your blade to”
July 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Our friends‘ cat stands like an absolute Chad and I can’t.
A black cat facing the camera head on and looking at it, both front legs straight and perfectly parallel, looking like he’s a PS1 model.
July 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Look familiar? 🥹
#deathstranding2 #ghostofyotei
Sam Porter Bridges from Death Stranding looking at himself in a mirror, wearing the white and gold kitsugi mask that Atsu wears in Ghost of Yōtei
June 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Ryoji Ikeda: data-verse / High Museum, Atlanta, GA
A three stretched out rolls of microfiche containing high-density data readouts spread across a backlit white surface, with a half-sphere of glass laying on the middle one, magnifying the data within
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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What it feels like to check in animations 5 mins before clocking out
A smiley-faced plane flying toward the viewer, away from a city being bombed behind it
June 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Sounds about right.
#wwdc #liquidglass #accessibilitynightmare
The thumbnail for the video where Apple introduced their new “liquid glass” UI design language, but, hilariously, the YouTube okay button in the embedded video obscures the letters G and L… leaving us with “Introducing Liquid ass”
June 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Bruh, imagine selling 15 sentences for $125 🙄🙄🙄🙄
#aigrift
A product listing for AI generative music prompts for sale on Gumroad.com: 50 left Mystery Box LEGENDARY Suno AI Prompt What's Inside: • 5 Starter Kits • 5 Standard Kit • 3 Pro Kit • 2 Master Kit MADINBEATS Mveter Roy $125
June 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Ochazuke with mirin & miso marinated salmon & toasted rice ☺️
Decided to actually take the time to really learn about Japanese cuisine after cooking for most of my life. Feeling a lot better as a result and mindful restraint when it comes to ingredients is a lesson that applies to all areas of life ❤️
Ochazuke topped with salmon, mirin-simmered spinach on top of toasted rice, a hard-boiled egg seasoned with furikake resting towards the front.
June 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Now that I’ve been working in audio full-time for a little while, I’ve been finding the time to pick up my basses again, purely for my own enjoyment and without the mental anguish that jazz academia would cause me in the past.
First course of action: Black nylon strings on the Paul Lairat beauties 😻
My two Paul Lairat basses. Left; a six string bass with maple fretboard and wenge top in a Les Paul-like shape, right: an unusual 5-string bass with maple top and fretboard which seemingly has parts of the body cut out and the entire bass is enveloped by laminated sides reminiscent of the plywood used to craft bows.
May 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Ringing in the weekend with some 2021 throwback jams 👾

#beatmaking #bassplayer #ableton #custombass #sloppygrooves
May 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Gotta rep the band that keeps me sane ❤️
A black shirt, patch, and stickers from the German band FJØRT
May 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM