NAC is seeking a freelance composer to develop an original musical identity for our upcoming external podcast. We’re looking for music that reflects NAC’s personality: curious, warm, collaborative, grounded, confident, and a little unexpected. The music should make you curious about what you’re about to hear, not tell you how excited you’re supposed to feel.
The right sound should feel professional without feeling corporate, polished without feeling generic, and playful without becoming quirky. A little funk or groove is welcome. We’re open to acoustic, electronic, or blended approaches and especially interested in distinctive instrumentation, texture, rhythm, and musical ideas that evolve rather than simply loop.
Creative direction:
• Curious, human, warm, and confident
• Distinctive and slightly unexpected
• Room for groove, personality, and experimentation
• Sophisticated enough to support thoughtful conversations without becoming overly serious
• Flexible enough to work beneath speech and across different episode topics
Please avoid: hand claps, finger snaps, whistling, ukulele, stomps, cymbal swells, pulsing kick drums, predictable inspirational builds, or other conventions associated with generic corporate music.
If it could soundtrack almost any company’s corporate video, it probably isn’t right for this use.
Anticipated deliverables include:
• 10–20 second intro
• 20–30 second outro
• Several 2–5 second transitions/bumpers
• Loopable music bed
We’re looking for a composer who can create a sonic identity, not simply background music, and who is excited to interpret an established visual and verbal brand through sound.
Note: We request that AI-generation is not utilized in the composition of these tracks.
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