Film Scoring

"The most significant thing a film composer brings to the table is the ability to emotionally connect with a film and express that through music. If you’re not able to do that, you’re not going to be very good, no matter how much training you’ve had. This is why it’s so important for composers to trust their instincts. That’s one of the main things I’ve learned—I do best when I don’t get in my own way and over-analyze things. There is a magical thing that happens that is almost like alchemy when music and image link up in a way neither you nor the director could have predicted. Those are the moments I live for."

• Ph.D. studies, Music Composition, Royal Holloway University of London
• Superior Degree, Modern Music, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya
• Certificate, Film Scoring, University of California - Los Angeles
• Pianist and keyboardist
• Score composition for films El Callejon, Viento en Contra, La Mosquitera, No-Do, The Dark Hour, The Beckoning, Excuses!, and more 
• Music preparation for films The Phantom, The Stupids, The Negotiator, and more

"I teach a class I designed called Scoring the Moment. Every week students look at a classic scene in a movie. For example, I show them scenes of kisses from famous movies, and then I show a scene from a movie I did where somebody kisses, and then they score that kiss next week. When they come back and play it for me, then I play them what I did. The next week we do gun fight or we do abandoned or we do tornado. It's great fun to see what they do on scenes I've already done. And I tell them, if you're going to do this for a living, sooner or later, you're going to do one of those things."

"Even if some of my students don't go into careers in video games, I think these are important concepts. How to structure nonlinear media, the applications for that go beyond video games. We're having digitally mediated interactive experiences all around us every day. Going through the subway turnstile, there's audio feedback; increasingly, we're seeing interactive kiosks in advertising contexts or shopping venues, museum installations, things like that."