Colorful abstract painting featuring a young boy with short hair and a serious expression in the foreground. The background includes shades of purple, blue, and orange with various scribbles, numbers, musical notes, and partial phrases such as 'music,' and 'the.' There are silhouettes of people in a field on the right side and abstract shapes and patterns across the image.

Art by Daniel Mauk

tame the noise

tame the noise is an intimate, high-energy adhd musical folk fable. in the town of normal, life is defined by a quiet, predictable status quo. but when a chaotic force called the noise leaves the town’s citizens unable to stop singing, speaking, or otherwise making noise, the only person who isn’t bothered by it is sent on a quest to find its source and silence it forever.

joined by his friends, the boy treks through a world of echoing canyons and shouting cities. along the way, he begins to question whether the noise is truly the threat the town believes it to be. with a foot-stomping folk score and immersive storytelling, tame the noise is a fable about finding harmony in chaos.

in development.

    • book, music, & lyrics by benjamin walton

    • full-length, one-act musical

    • cast of seven

    • folk score

    • finalist (song presentation in cabaret) - new musical project 2026

    • selection - michigan state university’s musicalturgy program 2026

    • selection (four staged readings at the tank) - milkyway theatre company’s new works festival 2026

    • selection - the table read co.’s writers club 2026

    • semifinalist (zoom table reading with company) - wild imaginings’ epiphanies festival 2026

selected videos

selected demos