David Kudell Music

I am an LA-based film, TV, and games composer who was chosen by JJ Abrams, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and composer Ramin Dwajadi from among 11,000 entries as the winner of a scoring competition to score a scene for the HBO show Westworld. Here you'll find my latest compositions, Out of the Studio interviews with fellow composers, and some behind-the-scenes videos on how I create my music.


David Kudell Music

Check out this awesome vocal version of my track “Infiltrate” created by vocalist Heli Andrea!

https://youtu.be/v2SIr5Pb8uE

1 month ago | [YT] | 1

David Kudell Music

I had the pleasure of composing additional music for the game Metro Awakening, as part of ‪@AnneKathrinDernComposer‬'s team. Check out Anne's awesome BTS video of the score, which has some clips of me talking about parts I worked on.

11 months ago | [YT] | 8

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The new Mac Mini M4 with the M4 Pro has way faster single core score than the M2 Ultra and even has faster Multi-core score. You can now get a killer Mac for composing for $2399 with 64GB of RAM and a 1TB internal SSD. And the size of it is incredibly small. Just amazing!

For those of you who watched my Mac for Composers video, I don’t recommend the M2 anymore but the SSD speed tests and RAM discussions are still useful.

1 year ago | [YT] | 10

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I've have several people reach out and ask if I can do 1-on-1 zoom calls to provide advice about all sorts of things related to composing, templates, mockups, workflow, video marketing, and more. I finally have some availability to do this, so if you're interested, it's now an option on Buy Me a Coffee! Hope to see some of you on Zoom! buymeacoffee.com/davidkudell/e/289661

1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 9

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Mark your dance card! Saturday Feb 3rd is the premiere of "Paging Mr. Darcy" - a film I co-composed with ‪@AnneKathrinDernComposer‬ . Thanks to Anne for the opportunity to do a co-write with her. It was a blast coming up with themes and the movie is really great too!

Thanks also to Kenny Wood, who contributed additional music and our music editor Shayla Swanson.

Catch "Paging Mr Darcy" on the Hallmark Channel Feb 3rd 8/7c. Summary: "When an overly serious scholar attends a Jane Austen annual conference, she strikes a deal with the man playing Mr. Darcy and finds her perspective, and her heart, changed. Starring Mallory Jansen and Will Kemp."

1 year ago | [YT] | 14

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You’re my kind of people.

2 years ago | [YT] | 35

David Kudell Music

Some people have asked for a way to show their appreciation for the Negative Track Delay Database or some of my YouTube videos, so now you can buy me a coffee at buymeacoffee.com/davidkudell

2 years ago | [YT] | 9

David Kudell Music

Part 2 of my video about the Mac Studio for Composers is coming out on Tuesday! This one is THE definitive comparison between running VEPro vs a disabled track template so get ready!

2 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 19

David Kudell Music

Just wanted to say welcome to all the new subscribers who found me through my video about Macs for composing! Some folks have asked where they can find my music. Besides working on various films I have an album you can listen to on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. lnk.to/cRowiteiWE

2 years ago | [YT] | 21

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This year I had the opportunity to work on a dream project that exercised all of my creative muscles - music composing, as well as filming & editing. In March, I journeyed to the beautiful Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia - a sanctuary in the middle of a forest. I filmed lots of footage of the making of Salu, a new sample library. I captured some amazing drone footage too, and got to spend time with Michael Pärt, Hendrik, and my friends from Orchestral Tools. I even saw Arvo himself several times when he would just walk in the room and go about his day, while I tried not to squeal with excitement!

Then I returned home and edited many videos over the course of 9 months - trailers, interviews, and tours of the property. But the crown jewel is a 12 minute documentary called “The inward journey: The making of Salu,” which I composed the music for using only the instruments from Salu. I’m quite proud of it and I hope I was able to capture a little bit of the spirit of the place.

2 years ago | [YT] | 6