f you want a village, you need to be a villager”. And perhaps now more than ever, it is easier to turn down invitations, events, and plans and stay in the comfort of your own bed and doom scroll endlessly on social media while you bed rot in goblin mode and we keep inventing new words such as these to further describe this lifestyle. It’s really quite depressing actually.

Blair Borland (the Penny series, Watchdog Legions, Apex Legends & more) joins us today to discuss his journey, making your own opportunities as a film composer, career patience, neurodivergence as a creative, and so much more.

Let’s say you are already somewhat established in one niche of the industry but you want to start spreading into more. The very first thing you should think about is “what you put out is what you take in”. If you are putting out music that sounds like dread personified, you will have a far easier time landing gigs in a horror based context than a cheesy hallmark rom-com. If you want to work on a particular type or project or a specific niche, you need to have your demos and r