Journal
Fragments of a creative life
Showreels showdown
After taking a pause to concentrate on fine art, I realized how much I needed to go back to making music as a hobby, to find solace and be free to fail without pressure.
I started composing mainly for my Showreels, to accompany my professional work. Obviously, that excuse grew into something more: a never-ending work in progress that, to this day, challenges me as much as it comforts me.
These are some of the tracks i composed. I laugh listening to them now, but i see them as building blocks, technically and artistically, of what’s to come.
After taking a pause to concentrate on fine art, I realized how much I needed to go back to making music as a hobby, to find solace and be free to fail without pressure.
I started composing mainly for my Showreels, to accompany my professional work. Obviously, that excuse grew into something more: a never-ending work in progress that, to this day, challenges me as much as it comforts me.
These are some of the tracks i composed. I laugh listening to them now, but i see them as building blocks, technically and artistically, of what’s to come.
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
Invasion
Designing for Apple TV Invasion gave me the inspiration to explore new sounds creation techniques which i used to create this short track for my VFX design reel on the project
Designing for Apple TV Invasion gave me the inspiration to explore new sounds creation techniques which i used to create this short track for my VFX design reel on the project
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
A book
Printing photographs changes the way we experience them.
Printing photographs changes the way we experience them.
In a world where most images exist only on screens, and honestly being personally a little bit tired of this, holding a print in your hands slows everything down ( concept of Time, again)
You notice details differently. You spend more time with the image. It becomes something physical, it enters a new world. Paper, inks, the sound of. the printer.. all part of the process.
And when those photographs become part of a book, they turn into an archive of places, people, and memories. Something you can return to years later, page by page, accumulated finger marks on the paper.
Digital photography has made images more accessible than ever, but paper still speaks a different language.
Some things are meant to be seen. Others are meant to be held.
Thor - music sketch
Music idea to accompany another making of video yet again, from my design work on Thor Love and Thunder
Music idea to accompany another making of video yet again, from my design work on Thor Love and Thunder
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
Amsterdam Central - silhouettes
Some moments feel almost choreographed.
Some moments feel almost choreographed.
A hand in a pocket. A look at the phone. Someone waiting, frozen.
Perfectly ordinary, yet impossible to direct.
They exist for a fraction of a second before disappearing into the flow of the station.
I see this in slow motion
Sketchbook #232
Pages from my sketchbook, master studies
Pages of master studies from my sketchbook
Mass Effect - score
When i worked on the TV AD for the new Mass Effect game at Psyop i decided to put some chords and sounds together for the making of.
When i worked on the TV AD for the new Mass Effect game at Psyop i decided to put some chords and sounds together for the making of.
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
A Man - story of music
A few frames from a film set.
as usual my camera was with me, so I tried to capture quieter moments,
actors getting ready, details of the set, fragments of the day,
almost like a colorful storyboard… a story within the story
A few frames from a film set.
as usual my camera was with me, so I tried to capture quieter moments,
actors getting ready, details of the set, fragments of the day,
almost like a colorful storyboard… a story within the story
My Streets
Visual diary of presence, transition, and observation across the city.
Same places, different stories..
Visual diary of presence, transition, and observation across the city.
Same places, different stories..
My streets.
Rain - field notes
05:18
La Défense, Paris
05:18
La Défense, Paris
Low clouds.
Light rain.
Almost no people.
The city sleeps.
Few silhouettes, umbrellas.
Silence.
As concept artists, we spend countless hours trying to invent believable atmospheres.
Sometimes reality does all the work for us.
An unusually early morning, low clouds hiding the tops of the towers,
light rain and an empty financial district transformed La Défense into something that felt strangely cinematic.
La stanza vuota
Some places never forget.
Some places never forget.
The objects remain, marks of your hands.
The silence remains.
That silence still speak of you.
The Empty Room
Sketchbook #145 - Nothing is more personal than a brush stroke
I love drawing in my sketchbook. When I think about it, it’s incredible how much time I’ve spent drawing traditionally, even if the results have often been slow to appear….
I love drawing in my sketchbook. When I think about it, it’s incredible how much time I’ve spent drawing traditionally, even if the results have often been slow to appear.
In 2014, I moved to Paris with the idea of settling down and working remotely after years of traveling around the world. At that time, driven by my desire to explore the world of concept art for film and television, I decided to return to fine art school. My background was mostly rooted in photography and heavily focused on 3D-based design, but I felt the need to go back to the basics — to refine and strengthen my fundamentals.
That journey into traditional work never left me. Despite the daily use of technology in my professional life, it gradually became more and more important in my artistic path.
The struggle, the frustration, but also the passion that fuels the discipline required to show up every day eventually became almost addictive to me.
I can hardly express how difficult this journey has been, especially for someone like me, who sometimes feels as though he was born with no natural predisposition for it. And yet, at the same time, it has also become a form of therapy — a space of silence, honesty, and meaningful hard work where I can slowly find myself again, stroke after stroke.
A moveable feast
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you…”
Ernest Hemingway
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you…”
Ernest Hemingway
I travelled widely in my younger years, living in different cities, each leaving their own trace. Later, more mature, I arrived in Paris.
It didn’t feel like a beginning. More like a place where everything I had lived before could finally converge.
The city works for me as a container for memory and experience, quietly stirring them, letting them collide and evolve.
From that mixture, something beautiful sometimes emerges.
Whitechapel - ambient pill
Short track i composed to accompany a making of video of a personal concept art piece about Jack the Ripper and my love for this mystery and for Victorian Era London. Tried to capture the mood of the place while imagining what it could feel like to wander those poorly illuminated and filthy streets, how could this not be a playground for a serial killer !?
Short track i composed to accompany a making of video of a personal concept art piece about Jack the Ripper and my love for this mystery and for Victorian Era London. Tried to capture the mood of the place while imagining what it could feel like to wander those poorly illuminated and filthy streets, how could this not be a playground for a serial killer !?
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
Structures - ambient
Skyscrapers vanish into the clouds as colossal ships glide between them. Below lies nothing but an endless ocean, the surface of a forgotten world. A glimpse into the future, an imagined civilization where architecture reaches beyond the sky.
Skyscrapers vanish into the clouds as colossal ships glide between them. Below lies nothing but an endless ocean, the surface of a forgotten world. A glimpse into the future, an imagined civilization where architecture reaches beyond the sky.
Structures.
This is the idea behind the writing of this piece of ambient music which accompanied one of my illustrations.
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
Fog
For me, fog feeds the imagination. It refuses to reveal the landscape all at once, asking you to trust that what has disappeared from view is still there.
For me, fog feeds the imagination. It refuses to reveal the landscape all at once, asking you to trust that what has disappeared from view is still there.
In a way, if you think about it, fog doesn't add anything to the world, it takes things away.
And, much like the finest paintings, it is through that absence that what truly matters begins to emerge…
Veils of Istanbul
Beautiful old corners bathed in sunset light, night-time shopfronts glowing softly in the dark
There is a very interesting concept called hüzün, introduced by Orhan Pamuk in his beautiful book Istanbul: Memories and the City.
It is not easy to translate, but it can be described as a kind of shared melancholy, almost a poetic sadness that seems to permeate the very walls of Istanbul.
I think it takes living there for a long time, and perhaps also the sensitivity of a master like Pamuk, to truly understand it, and probably feel it.
I cannot say I do. But during my visit there was definitely something special: an atmosphere, an energy that I still remember clearly, beautiful old corners bathed in sunset light, night-time shopfronts glowing softly in the dark… i do still miss it just by writing about it
This mood surrounded the city’s beautiful, timeworn architecture, buildings that have witnessed centuries of change and history.
I just love Istanbul.
Form A - score
Form A, shortfilm score
A track i composed scoring an abstract shortfilm for which i shot a lot of macro photography and i’m actually revisiting right now to see if i can “upgrade” it.
Music wise i wanted something slow and contemplative, but also mysterious, which is generally what i like in music.
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
True North
Glimpses of Canada's breathtaking wilderness, where black and white transforms the landscape into something timeless.
I still vividly remember a long walk along an old trail with my other half.
Glimpses of Canada's breathtaking wilderness, where black and white transforms the landscape into something timeless.
I still vividly remember a long walk along an old trail with my other half.
Surrounded by the silence of those vast landscapes, we followed abandoned railway tracks as a gentle rain began to fall.
The atmosphere was impossible to recreate, something quietly magical,
revealed only to those willing to slow down, to truly see, and to deeply feel.