Ep 241-Nainita Desai on Blurring the Line Between Sound Design & Composing

The Portfolio Composer

Nainita Desai is an award-winning composer for film and media. Her recent projects include the critically acclaimed Oscar 2000 nominated film For Sama, Sundance 2020 winning feature The Reason I Jump, Netflix' most-watched documentary feature to date, American Murder, and the Annapurna Interactive Film-Game Telling Lies. Film4 labelled her as one of the top 5 "composers who should be on your radar" and her projects have been in the Top 5 Scores and Video Games lists of 2019 by Scala Radio. This episode is sponsored by Dorico by Steinberg, the future of scoring. Visit www.steinberg.net/tpc for a free 30-day trial version.

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Composer Nainita Desai discusses how the line between sound design and composing can be blurry, and how it's a good thing.

Topics Covered:

• Nainita's portfolio
• Lots of crumbs make a biscuit
• Mathematics
• The Reason I Jump
• Autism
• Sound design

Website:

• www.nainitadesai.com

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This episode was edited by Studio184.