Conor O'Sullivan

Conor O'Sullivan is a composer and sound designer. He worked at Motorola from 2002 to 2009, Microsoft (specifically the Xbox division) from 2009 to 2014, freelance from 2014 to 2015, and Google from 2015 onwards. He is best known for composing the iconic Moto ringtone, along with various other Motorola ringtones before they started licensing from APM Music. He also worked on various Xbox One sounds, and did some contract work with Motorola after leaving Microsoft, through his company Resonate Design. He is currently the head of sound design at Google and has composed many ringtones, notifications and UI sounds.

Work at Motorola
O'Sullivan joined Motorola near the end of 2002. At the time, the only other sound designer present was David Brenner, who in fact was primarily a software engineer. This led to him subsequently composing a large number of MIDI ringtones, and later audio ringtones including the default Moto ringtone. He also designed several UI sounds and continued to do so for the rest of his time at Motorola. Upon hearing the Moto ringtone for the first time in public, he mentioned he felt so excited that he almost interrupted someone's phone call. He has stated that he does not take the popularity for granted.

By 2004, Brenner no longer had any involvement in sound, leaving O'Sullivan as the only in-house sound designer for the next two years. From this point onwards he decided to license tracks from APM Music and adapt them into ringtones; this involved spending hours listening to thousands of tracks and picking out the ones that were the most sonically interesting, then editing them to sound better on the speakers. MIDI versions of these were also created as part of Motorola's contract with APM Music, though O'Sullivan did not make these and instead APM outsourced them to a person named Keith Manners.

In 2006, Justin McGrath joined Motorola, meaning that Motorola now had two sound designers again. While Motorola continued licensing ringtones from APM, McGrath composed some of his own ringtones too. In 2009, O'Sullivan left Motorola to join Microsoft's Xbox division. However, he still did some contract work for the company, including the DROID Resonate ringtone introduced on the Motorola DROID Turbo in 2014. He has not done any further work for Motorola since joining Google in 2015.

Credits
This is a list of known tracks O'Sullivan has worked on that are in the scope of this wiki.

Ringtones

 * Acoustica — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * Ambient Mood — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Impression]
 * Breakdown — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * Bubble — Music & Arrangement
 * Chain Links — Music & Arrangement
 * DROID Resonate — Music & Arrangement
 * Double Trouble — Music & Arrangement
 * Downtime — Music & Arrangement
 * Eclipse — Music & Arrangement
 * Electron — Music & Arrangement
 * Elliptical — Music & Arrangement
 * Energized — Music & Arrangement
 * Espresso — Music & Arrangement
 * Explosive Motion — Music & Arrangement
 * Flare — Music & Arrangement
 * Glacier — Music & Arrangement
 * Guitar Strings — Music & Arrangement
 * Hangin Out — Music & Arrangement
 * Helix — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * High Impact — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * High Tide — Music & Arrangement
 * Higher Plane — Music & Arrangement
 * Jitters — Music & Arrangement
 * Jubilation — Music & Arrangement
 * Kaleidoscopic — Music & Arrangement
 * Mania — Music & Arrangement
 * Metronome — Music & Arrangement
 * Midnight — Music & Arrangement
 * Moonlit Haze — Music & Arrangement
 * Moto — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Hello Moto]
 * Night Life — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * One Moment — Music & Arrangement
 * Pizazz — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Pizzaz or Pizza]
 * Popularity — Music & Arrangement
 * Sharp Edge — Music & Arrangement
 * Sing to Me — Music & Arrangement
 * Starburst — Music & Arrangement
 * Steel Canvas — Music & Arrangement
 * Sweet — Music & Arrangement
 * Urban Dream — Music & Arrangement
 * Velvet — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * Vid Kids — Music & Arrangement

Other

 * Startup sound (2004) — Music & Arrangement
 * Startup sound (2007) — Music & Arrangement

Ringtones

 * Rrrring — Music (with Kiki Baessell) & Arrangement
 * The big adventure — Music & Arrangement
 * The small adventure — Music [NOTE: Monophonic-style arrangement of The big adventure]