Adrian Gomar

Looking for some broken bones to make a bone flute, preferably human. Let me know! 🎃🎃🎃

Merci Pierre-Henri, très heureux que mon travail te parle 🖖

YouTube video by Adrian Gomar Composer showreel 2025

Happy to present my new reel featuring original music from recent projects 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfnZ...

Each game is a new adventure full of infinite sonic possibilities. From quiet emotions to epic stories, grateful for every opportunity to make a beautiful mess of sounds

Having ideas is the easy part. Anyone can have them. To shape a good idea into something that breathes and shines, that's the difficult part.

Pen and paper. Fishing for ideas. Nothing better to focus on the building blocks of your music

People once said MIDI would replace musicians and make everyone a composer. It didn’t.
Musicians still matter, and composition still takes skill.
The same will happen with AI.

If you're spending a lot of time in your arrangement then your idea wasn't that good. The best ideas make things easier

The jump from linear music to interactive music is the same as the jump from silent films to sounding films

No matter how much tech evolves, the emotional power of music is what we keep looking for.
That's why we keep listening to things recorded with 1 bad microphone on a magnetic tape 75 years ago.

Having an absolute blast turning an Xbox game controller into a fully playable musical instrument 🎵
In this third video I'm playing a hybrid track using hangs, piano and kalimba among several synths, all triggered and manipulated through the controller
Link 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKO1...

We need an AI to replace audio automatically on middlewares, so that you don't need to spend 2 hours editing and replacing the freshly mixed tracks with the older ones

The trouble is, great music doesn’t need to explain itself. When you hear it, you just feel it. You say, ‘Wow, I love this.’ And explanations, if any, come later.

Contemporary music often feels like an ideology trying to convince you that squares are round and triangles have four sides. And then giving you a three-page essay to justify it

Music and music design are not the same. But if you consider them both a part of the gaming experience, then that shifts the way you create music for the better

Replace all your VSTs with real instruments and tell me which version is better

Don't believe guys on social media telling you how to write music. Just write the music you want to write. That's all.

Deadlines are a godsend. They give you everything you need : discipline, time, and focus.

The days I'm inspired I make about 1 minute of music.
The days I'm not inspired I make about 1 minute of music.
The days I'm sad I make about 3 minutes of music.

If you work on games, judge the success of your music by what gamers say about it. The rest doesn't matter

Creating good music is about being authentic. About giving your unadulterated point of view.

Honest question: until now, our way to create music has been having an idea and then adding things to it until sounds finished. Is gen AI going to change that?

That moment when music isn't playing... and you realize you forgot to rebuild the soundbanks. Again

Saying to yourself that you have a 2 minute track to make is such a bad starting point.
It's not about filling time.
Start by having a great idea you love and then you'll see your track growing so much you'll have to decide what do you take out.

AI isn’t going anywhere. While we must protect creators and ensure fair pay, we should also be exploring how it can help us create better music.
Not instead of us but with us. At the end of the day it’s just another tool.

Music design is so deeply tied to the feeling of a game that it should be considered as a separate discipline. It's truly special how much you can achieve with it

It's telling to see how bad sample libraries are aging. Like in the past someone thought it would replace real musicians. Same thing will happen with AI

Composers, don't fear academia's rejection.
It's the best thing that could happen to your music.
It's the start of your real career.

My friend Nelson Malléus from Inoui Samples wrote an excellent article about recording and panning orchestral strings (in french)
nelsonmalleus.com/orch-dispo