About me
I’ve been addicted to music since my early childhood. When my father brought a bootleg collection of Eminem songs from one of his business trips to Moscow, a dream was born.
My fascination with music was growing proportionally with my hunger for experimentation. Genre boundaries were fading, I got involved in heavy metal, jazz, shoegaze, post-rock, anything I could get my hands on at 128kb\s bandwidth.
On my 15th birthday I asked for an electric guitar and the rest is a blur.
Self-taught through feverish study of online material, trial and error spanning countless years in the shed, I have mastered classical western and jazz composition, orchestration, sound design, EDM production, arrangement, mixing and mastering.
I have everything in my arsenal to compose, design and produce any emotion through Music.
I’ve always been drawn to darker styles of music and art both in creation and consumption. I think that’s been my way of ecologically dealing with negativity.
Having a creative outlet for my shadow was never a conscious choice, it just always felt like the right thing to do.
As a result, I’m a very happy and joyful person in life. I put high value on love, care and laughter. Even though my headphones are often blasting something positively satanic and dissonant.
Today, I am scoring video games, film and streamed tabletop sessions for talented creators all over the world.
I’m proficient with creating adaptive audio systems for games in FMOD and Wwise and implementing them in game engines.
I prefer to use Ableton Live as my main DAW, but I’m also familiar with Cubase and Reaper. My library of high quality virtual instruments, synthesizers and personal samples is ever expanding. So do my technical chops and expertise.
When I conceptualize my next score, I rarely think of the technical aspects. What key should I start in? Which instruments to choose?
My goal with every project is to create clear and vivid imagery through aural expression.
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