How Intention Shapes Sound – in Film, Games & Advertising When I compose music for a scene, everything starts with a single question: What does this scene truly need? Do I want my music to tell something the visuals don’t yet express? Or should it uplift what’s already there emotionally? That decision lies at the […]
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Happy Melancholy Why Sad Music Sometimes Comforts Us – and Sometimes Holds Us Captive Inside. A dimly lit room. On the bed sits a boy, maybe twelve years old. He wears headphones, the world outside has faded into silence. His eyes are half-closed, his gaze distant. From the outside, he looks melancholic — but inside, […]
The Problem with Modern Cover Songs On Intention, Commerce—and What We Truly Hear in Music A few years ago, I discovered a remix of Radiohead’s “Creep” by Gamper & Dadoni featuring Ember Island. The original song had always felt to me like a manifesto of despair—raw, vulnerable, isolated, a declaration of not belonging. And then […]
