Rayan Telleria is a recording engineer trained by the Abbey Road Institute, and an already prolific producer and composer of film music, songs and lofi music, at only 23 years of age. He was also the drummer of the latin/neo-soul band Naia for several years from its birth, and more recently the band’s producer.
In this episode, Tom Platts and Rayan Telleria dig into the struggles of film composition, songwriting, and production in relation to Rayan’s work (as listed below). Later they debate what the hardest thing is about being an artist - especially one in the early stages of their career. The conversation is pillared with some relevant and less relevant anecdotes that serve to lighten the mood… even though it never gets particularly dark.
The topics of the episode are as follows:
• Scoring “La Lune Est Morte” a short film created by Aya Nour: Instagram aya.nour.a
• Film Composition – tips from an Oscar-winning composer
• The Abbey Road Institute – why you should pay thousands of pounds to hire a professional studio
• What stood out about British people when Rayan first moved to England?
• Production: ‘hi,’ by Bring Me Flowers Rayan’s duo with Faith Norman
• Songwriting – ‘Christmas Alone’ by Kharesma Ravichandran
• Naia – finding its style: Instagram naia_sounds
• Living in London working a bar job, gigging weekly, and getting to Glastonbury 2022 with Naia – both Rayan and Tom’s highlights of the festival.
• C. Tangana’s Tiny Desk – listen here!
• The difficulty of being an artist just out of higher education – why you need to be as productive as possible, juggling another job alongside your artistic projects, and not really having a day off!
• Specialising: finding what you find easiest vs what you enjoy the most.
• Being a lofi artist under the name Voyäge – getting over the ‘intimidating first release’, going from 45 streams per year to 4600 monthly listeners (just on Spotify).
• “The song I put the least effort into musically has the most streams… there’s a lesson in that.”
• Rayan’s favourite meal chosen from his diverse cultural background…
Follow Rayan Telleria on Instagram: rayantelleria
Credits:
Matthew McConaughey impression by Tom Platts
‘hi,’ by Bring Me Flowers
‘Freedom’ , ‘Dizzy’, & ‘You Gotta Go’ by Naia
‘killua’s theme (hunter x hunter lofi)’ and ‘nocturne’ by Voyäge
This podcast is produced by Sound Sapien
soundsapien.com
Rayan Telleria is a recording engineer trained by the Abbey Road Institute, and an already prolific producer and composer of film music, songs and lofi music, at only 23 years of age. He was also the drummer of the latin/neo-soul band Naia for several years from its birth, and more recently the band’s producer.
In this episode, Tom Platts and Rayan Telleria dig into the struggles of film composition, songwriting, and production in relation to Rayan’s work (as listed below). Later they debate what the hardest thing is about being an artist - especially one in the early stages of their career. The conversation is pillared with some relevant and less relevant anecdotes that serve to lighten the mood… even though it never gets particularly dark.
The topics of the episode are as follows:
• Scoring “La Lune Est Morte” a short film created by Aya Nour: Instagram aya.nour.a
• Film Composition – tips from an Oscar-winning composer
• The Abbey Road Institute – why you should pay thousands of pounds to hire a professional studio
• What stood out about British people when Rayan first moved to England?
• Production: ‘hi,’ by Bring Me Flowers Rayan’s duo with Faith Norman
• Songwriting – ‘Christmas Alone’ by Kharesma Ravichandran
• Naia – finding its style: Instagram naia_sounds
• Living in London working a bar job, gigging weekly, and getting to Glastonbury 2022 with Naia – both Rayan and Tom’s highlights of the festival.
• C. Tangana’s Tiny Desk – listen here!
• The difficulty of being an artist just out of higher education – why you need to be as productive as possible, juggling another job alongside your artistic projects, and not really having a day off!
• Specialising: finding what you find easiest vs what you enjoy the most.
• Being a lofi artist under the name Voyäge – getting over the ‘intimidating first release’, going from 45 streams per year to 4600 monthly listeners (just on Spotify).
• “The song I put the least effort into musically has the most streams… there’s a lesson in that.”
• Rayan’s favourite meal chosen from his diverse cultural background…
Follow Rayan Telleria on Instagram: rayantelleria
Credits:
Matthew McConaughey impression by Tom Platts
‘hi,’ by Bring Me Flowers
‘Freedom’ , ‘Dizzy’, & ‘You Gotta Go’ by Naia
‘killua’s theme (hunter x hunter lofi)’ and ‘nocturne’ by Voyäge
This podcast is produced by Sound Sapien
soundsapien.com