Music can boost a story. Instrumental music often works best because it is abstract. But it is real in the sense that it creates feelings. It communicates emotions.

And since instrumental music is without words it doesn’t fight with the content of the story. And it doesn’t fight with the speaking voices.

Music should not fight with the voice frequency range, so often ambient music works really well. As well as lo-fi sounds, or combined tweaked nature sounds, to create an atmosphere which goes well against very clear recorded vocals.

I have this theory that hi-fi sounds together with lo-fi sounds creates an interesting marriage. If everything sounds super transparent and clean, boring! But too lo-fi and saturated is no good either.

My name is Marco Raaphorst. I provide music as a service: scores, leader tunes, bumper music and audio logos.

Listen to some of the examples down below.

Interested? Let me know!