Piet Broms

piet broms

/music

/film scoring exercises

/visual mediums

Hello, I’m Piet!

I’m an aspiring composer and creator recently graduated with a degree in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices from the California Institute of the Arts.

My training and background draws me toward mood, setting, and light, bridging the worlds of sound and image.

I'm currently seeking a position that will allow me to explore these ideas.

About me

I’m originally from Los Angeles, but was raised in Marin County, California. I come from a family of architects, designers, engineers, writers and educators, who have inspired in me the value of design and curiosity. I’m interested in all aspects of design composition: design of a photographic image, design of physical objects, design of a piece of music or score.

I enjoy delving deeply into an idea or concept in order to implement my design. I've learned the value of developing and exploring a big idea by focusing on the smaller details, researching and fully immersing myself in a project to realize my concept.

During high school I hand-built the acoustic guitar pictured left - I didn’t have a large amount of skill in woodworking so I researched the process and techniques luthiers use in their craft and implemented my research into the project.

The website you are viewing is also a hand-built effort that started with research and then the application of the information I gleaned into a design project. I had no experience with web design or coding prior to determining to design and implement my site. Please excuse any imperfections! It's an ongoing project.

/music

Of music compositions I’ve studied, my favorites evoke emotion, inspire, motivate, uplift, and help tell a story. CalArts taught me the critical role music plays in motion picture production, including the worlds of film, television, and gaming. On this site I’ve included examples of my composition focusing on cinematic electronic and orchestral concepts, and ideas in experimental sound.

Cresting the Hill➞↖

(Orchestral, Uplifting)

Flight of Bytes➞↖

(Synths, Soundscapes, Immersive)

Voltage Lullaby➞↖

(Synths, Soundscapes, Immersive)

Butterscotch Corduroy➞↖

(Electronic, Synths, Funk)

Disk Select➞↖

(Experimental, Soundscapes, Immersive)

All music written by me

Improvisation➞↖

(Solo Piano)

Cruising on Callisto➞↖

(Polyrhythms, Electronic)

Mix 2 Final➞↖

(Electronic, Synths, Funk)

Spring Rain ➞↖

Quartet for Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, and Bassoon.

Please view the written score here

/film scoring exercises

I’m interested in the impact music provides to the audience’s experience and music’s unique characteristics that contribute to finished content. I’ve included examples from my work at CalArts focusing on scoring ideas that explore characteristics of, among other things, setting, movement, emotion, and impact.

Original score for a short clip from an unreleased childrens show called Family Tree.

This project was an assignment from the class "Composing for Animation" at UCLA Extension, taught by the very talented Charles Fernandez. The class challenged me to explore techniques of composing I hadn't practiced much before, as a result making me a more well-rounded composer.

An original rescore of a scene from the film Ratatouille (2007).

The sound in this scene has been completely rerecorded by me as well as my friend Weston Winkler, down to the voice acting and each sound effect. You may notice there are a few sound effects and a voice lines missing, as this was a project that unfortunately succumbed to its deadline incomplete.

An original rescore of a trailer for the videogame Hitman 2.

A project for a class called Aesthetics of Sound and Image. The aim was to select a single image and create three different sound spaces to accompany it, each being different in tone while remaining effective with the visual.

Original music by me

Image: Blade Runner 2049

An original rescore of a scene from the film Frida (2002).

/visual mediums

For me, creating images is about telling a story: whether that be a photograph, drawing or architectural rendering.

I enjoy using my camera to compose and carry it with me to capture everyday moments that I find visually interesting in light and color, or tell a story. I look for balance (or lack thereof), compelling shapes and patterns, and mood.

While I am not formally trained in hand-drawing, I enjoy sketching to capture mood or a snippet of an idea.

Being from a family of architects and designers, I have been trained to understand spatial thinking and the power of texture and color to propel an idea forward. I enjoy working on the transition from working drawing to rendering where the mood and the story of the space can be explored.