You ’ ve worked on film and TV soundtracks as well . How is it different from composing with / for artists ?
It ’ s a completely different part of your music brain you exercise as a composer . When you write new songs for artists it ’ s often a completely blank slate where the song is the centerpiece .
Composing on film & TV projects is about making music to support , move and enhance the story or characters – so in some ways it ’ s restrictive but it ’ s also a really great challenge as a writer . I love doing both though composing is also a completely different thing to navigate politically in terms of how many other ‘ stakeholders ’ you have to communicate with – show producers , director , networks and film studio execs etc . It ’ s a bit more complex that way but also part of the challenge .
Can you tell us a bit about your upcoming projects ?
I ’ m across a few things at the moment , including one project with a very well known Indian artist ! Unfortunately I can ’ t say too much about them yet !
I am also very much into the crypto / NFT ( non-fungible token ) space as it relates to music and art in the new digital world . I recently did a performance in the Metaverse on Decentral Games with my friend Anjulie – as part of a 3-part NFT series we did with an amazing Italian visual artist called Fried Vision . You can check out our NFT work at https :// foundation . app / Anjulie this was a super cool project and we ’ re planning to do more shows in the metaverse soon !
Also prepping for another film score and a bunch of cool artist releases here in the U . S . ( and maybe some big K-Pop ones too !)
What does your studio look like ? Can you give us a glimpse into your gear ?
I have a nice setup here in L . A . with a main control room and a large vocal booth . I don ’ t have much complex outboard gear as I do most of my mixing and production ‘ in the box ’ and prefer to keep a clean and simple setup , apart from a keyboard and guitars I keep in the studio . The main vocal strip is a Neve 1073 going into a vintage LA-2A compressor ( a real one !) and a UAD Apollo 8 interface . My main mic is a Neumann U87 with a custom gold-plate fitting .
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