Your catalog as a composer is not just a fun thought exercise, it is the ever growing collection of all of your pieces, cues, and drafts that you’ve worked on over the years. From 1m01_20230501-A .wav to 4m27_20251143_D.wav, you’ve likely amassed a large collection of tracks throughout the years. All of these are potential money earners for you.

as film composers have additional duties and understandings that may extend beyond traditional discussions of music. Most musicians are familiar with the five elements of music: harmony, rhythm, melody, texture, and form. When analyzing music of any genre or medium, we can look at it through the lens of each of these elements and come to conclusions about the music in order to deeper understand the composer and their style and choices. Film music does not exist in a vacuum, a

I’d like to look at some ways you can immediately inject more of your own “sound” into your work - be it for video games, film, commercials or whatever project you are working on to help develop and craft your own voice as a musician.

One of the biggest pieces of advice early composers will get is to “find their voice”. To many composers, this comes across as “just do it” with no further explanation. How does a composer find their voice and what does it mean to “write like yourself”, especially in a medium like film music where one day you could be writing a romantic orchestral cue and the next it’s a latin jazz infused chase scene?

This blog post originally appeared on the blog for my sonic branding agency, Electric Raindrop , though I figured the tech portion of...