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
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
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
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.
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
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
Sic Parvis Magna
The original score of a simple abstract short film i created a few years back, will probably re work and expand this music idea while i go back and refine the short itself. We’re never satisfied of our work, and this is a blessing and a curse.
The original score of a simple abstract short film i created a few years back, will probably re work and expand this music idea while i go back and refine the short itself. We’re never satisfied of our work, and this is a blessing and a curse.
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
Ibiza
It’s not the style i prefer to compose but i have beautiful memories of my young age dancing nights, my love for clubbing faded with age obviously but i still love listening to some good dance music.
This is just a fun weekend exercise to create some beats and go back in time
It’s not the style i prefer to compose but i have beautiful memories of my young age dancing nights, my love for clubbing faded with age obviously but i still love listening to some good dance music.
This is just a fun weekend exercise to create some beats and go back in time
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
Signal
I spent quite some time with Elektron machines, learning ins and outs. Once i decided to go minimal, in the never ending ongoing process of reducing friction and maximizing productivity……
I spent quite some time with Elektron machines, learning ins and outs. Once i decided to go minimal, in the never ending ongoing process of reducing friction and maximizing productivity, i resampled a lot of material i created with these machines to eventually
use it even after having sold the machine.
Signal is a short scifi inspired piece which made use of this material.
June ‘22
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose - Digitakt ii
Clone - A failed idea
I composed this track while working on a personal concept art piece inspired by a story I had in mind about a human cloning facility hidden inside a cave.
I composed this track while working on a personal concept art piece inspired by a story I had in mind about a human cloning facility hidden inside a cave. Not a particularly original idea, and I wasn't especially pleased with the final result, particularly the design of the machine, which was the main focus of the piece. It felt bulky and lacked elegance, and I eventually removed the artwork from my portfolio.
It was, however, a good excuse to compose this short piece of music.
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
Porter
The Short Film “Porter” by talented director Travis Hanour was a joy to work on, here’s a music sketch inspired by it
The Short Film “Porter” by talented director Travis Hanour was a joy to work on, here’s a music sketch inspired by it
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
Hausen - score
Hausen Tv Show for Sky International was such a fun project to work on, this is a small piece i composed to showcase my work on it
Hausen Tv Show for Sky International was such a fun project to work on, this is a small piece i composed to showcase my work on it
Composed in Logic Pro - Kawai Novus NV5S - Expressive-E Osmose
Sketchbook #13
Pages from my sketchbook, practicing using various media
Pages from my sketchbook, practicing using various media
Sketchbook #235 Human forms
Pages from my sketchbook, anatomy studies
Pages from my sketchbook, old studies of human forms.
Anatomy studies from books, from Masters, combining techniques, feeding the passion that keeps me going through continuous failure and random micro successes
