I sat down with composer and sound designer Ian Boddy to talk about curiosity, sound, and what it really means to build a creative life over decades. We explore experimentation, solitude, library music, technology, and why following what fascinates you often matters more than having a plan.
A deep, philosophical conversation with game composer Gimgi on creativity, discipline, burnout, and the making of Ogu and the Secret Forest.
In this episode of Be a Better Artist, I talk with composer Geoff Knorr about what it really takes to stay in music over the long term.
We get into failure, criticism, and letting go of music that doesn’t work. We also talk about writing for long-running projects like Civilization, learning to hear feedback without losing your footing, and why music is simply too hard to pursue if you don’t genuinely love the work itself.
A grounded conversation about craft, perspective, and sticking with it.
A raw, organic, cinematic toolkit built on texture and friction—PRIMAL delivers gritty strings, performance-driven percussion, buzzing winds, and atmospheric soundscapes that inject physical energy into modern scoring. This is dirt-under-the-fingernails cinema.
sonible smart:comp 3 rethinks compression around musical intent rather than numbers. With its new Compression Matrix, refined spectral processing, and powerful Group Mode, it’s a fast, flexible, and surprisingly musical compressor for modern mixing and mastering.
A reflective, narrative look into the origins of Heavyocity and the creative philosophy of co-founder Dave Fraser — exploring how curiosity, reinvention, and devotion to the invisible craft behind sound shaped one of the most influential companies in modern cinematic music. This is not a technical breakdown, but a story about resilience, experimentation, and the human intention behind the tools composers rely on.
Polarity Modular is an otherworldly dual-layer granular instrument from Soniccouture that blends Ian Boddy’s analog modular sounds with grainy, cloudy, and truly unidentifiable textures. It’s a wildly creative playground — an alien, exploratory machine that feels like composing inside a parallel dimension.
Vessels by Noon Instruments is a beautifully textural synth instrument built from re-amped analog/digital sources, resonant metal objects, and tape. Grainy, cinematic, organic, and full of character — a truly unique-sounding synth and sound design tool that is one of the notable releases of the year.
Emergence Audio’s Infinite Guitar reimagines the electric guitar as a vessel of motion and stillness — blending ethereal ambience, soft distortion, and organic movement into one of the most evocative instruments the company has released yet.
Wavesfactory’s Re-Esser redefines de-essing by splitting vocals into tonal and sibilant layers you can process independently. It’s not just about taming harshness — it’s a creative, musical vocal tool that’s both surgical and inspiring.
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