Composing / Arranging / Songwriting

To perfect Olivia Dean’s intimate, personal sound world, the artist and producer/songwriter Zach Nahome decided to step outside the studio.

With our nu‑disco tune mixed and mastered, we turn our attention to distributing and promoting it...

Remember the nu‑disco tune we wrote last month, using the loops and instruments in SOS For Artists? Now it’s time to flesh it out, mix it and master it...

Five years in the making, Netflix’s smash hit animated movie tested its music production team to the limit.

This month, we set ourselves a real‑world challenge: compose and release a new tune, using the tools provided in an SOS For Artists subscription!

Aviram Barath’s musical direction inspired rapper Loyle Carner to work with a live band for his hit album hopefully!

Mercury-nominated vocalist, composer and producer ESKA talks about her favourite studio gear and how her background as a live jazz musician shapes her approach to writing and recording.

If your beats are static, your melodies predictable, or if you’re just plain out of ideas, perhaps it’s time to introduce some random elements?

There is nothing ordinary about the success of Alex Warren’s breakthrough hit — or its signature sound, created by producer Adam Yaron.

Born in Cairo, Egypt, Nadah El Shazly is now based in Montreal. Her recent album Laini Tani blends Egyptian improvised music, manipulated vocals, deft electronic production and acoustic percussion.

South Korean dramas Parasite and Squid Game have been worldwide hits — and Jung Jae‑il’s scores have played a key role in their success.

The fearless sonic experimentation of composers Evgueni and Sacha Galperine is proving equally at home in mainstream and arthouse cinema — not to mention last year’s surprise hit TV series Baby Reindeer.

Working with Kacey Musgraves catapulted Ian Fitchuk from respected producer to one of Nashville’s busiest songwriters.

Divisimate 2 brings a host of improvements and new features to Nextmidi’s orchestration software.

Widely credited with not just inventing techno but also coining the name, Juan Atkins tells the story of his genre-defining record, ‘No UFOs’.

For musicians and producers that struggle to finish tracks, Eddie Bazil explains the benefits of creating musical snippets and gives us some examples as to how we can tap into different moods, and use sound design techniques to create something unique.