Film Composer | Producer

Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

A: Remember, you can be sure of the delivery of an original, high quality product, on time and within the guaranteed budget.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: The exact moment in the compositional process when the emotional tone required by the project is achieved.

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: Do you need to provide your video? It would be ideal, but I can work from the script, from storytelling, images, concepts and ideas

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Free text about general idea Narrative genre? | Action, suspense, drama, terror, romance (any other) References? | Directors, composers, films, scenes, video games (any other) Timbre? | Musical instruments required (tone color/timbre) Duration? | Exactly how much and where music is required Hit Points? | Exact points of synchrony

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: I have been dedicating myself to music for more than 12 years, 10 of which I have been specializing in music composition.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Cinematic | Minimalist | Hybrid

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I am a full time Freelance Composer

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both, the tools and benefits of good music composition transcend these two factors

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: I was in charge of composing 14 minutes of original music that accompanying the presentation and story of Maral, a truly inspirational woman, Christian artist and Iranian refugee. The “Christian BSL Carol Service” is a carol service conducted in British Sign Language by deaf Christians.

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: Incidental Music | Cinematic Music | Branding Music | World Music

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Music composer (for Film, Series and Advertising) | Orchestrator

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: Identity, that identity proper to the project that may arise from understanding and composition

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: The first step is always a thorough investigation to understand the project concept in its entirety and fit into your vision. Here we will determine from the most general parameters to the most specific ones. (story, style, hit points, characters, leitmotives, duration, timbre, timeline...).

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Home Studio | Dell (Core i7, 32 Ram, 3.40 GHz) | M-Audio KeyRig, M-Wave SMC Mixer | Presonus, Studio One 6 | Sibelius | Plugins: Kontakt, Acústica Audio, Ample Sound, Best Service, Cinematic Studio Series, Cinesamples, Cynematics, Decent Sampler, Embertone, Fab Filter, IK Multimedia, Melodyne, Native Instruments, Orchestral Tool, Performance Samples, Sampleson, Seven Phases, Spectrasonics (Omnisphere), Wave 14

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: Compositions for any kind of audiovisuals, usually for YouTube videos, Podcast, Short Films

Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

A: James Newton Howard, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sigur Ros, Bob Dylan, Joe Hisaishi, The War on Drugs, Bruce Springsteen, Erland Cooper, Thomas Newman, Philip Glass, RHCP, Nicola Pavoni, Leonard Cohen, Alexandre Desplat, Alejandro Amenábar, Olafur Arnalds, Win Mertens, Gabo Ferro, Federico Albanese, Kronos Quartet, Amiina, Hania Rani, Ennio Morricone, Justin Hurwitz, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Sufjan Stevens, Camel, Ludovico Einauidi, Akira Kosemura, Robot Koch, John Adams, Mammal Hands, Danny Elfman, Pink Floyd, Daugther, Nicholas Britell, Mychael Danna, Bryce Dessner, Vangelis, Davis Lang, Mychael Nyman, King Crimson, Marillion, Owen Pallet, Carte Burwell, Yan Tiersen, Van Morrison