COFER

COFER is a composer and music production specialist whose style blends classic film scoring, unique rhythms, sound design, remixes, and pop songwriting to create unique and unforgettable songs.  His work and style is sought after by some of the biggest creative advertising agencies in the world.  He creates custom high-end music and sound design for Hollywood's biggest films and advertising campaigns.  His recent credits include, 'Dumbo', 'Handmaid's Tale 2019 Super Bowl ad', 'Creed II', 'The Mummy', 'Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales, 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse', Independence Day: Resurgence', 'The Magnificent Seven', and many more.  COFER has worked on film projects such as the Emmy Award Winning 'Wasteland' and a documentary series following the USA Rugby Team 'American Rugger'. He loves to talk music, film, and synths... just ask!

MOST INFLUENTIAL SCORE

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS | DANNY ELFMAN

Danny Elfman's score for the film Edward Scissorhands was the first time I noticed film music as a kid.  It engrained in me the grandness and importance of music in film that can be so powerful and moving.  The score has a perfect blend of melody, emotion, and instrumentation. The sounds were so new to me, the celeste, harp, and pizzicato strings fascinated me.  It's fun, quirky, dramatic, epic, and takes me into a fantasy world that I never want to leave.  Listen to 'Ice Dance'... I can still remember hearing the choir in this and it just being the coolest thing I had ever heard. Later in life, when I started learning about music, the first thing I wanted to find is the chord change in this.  I had never heard that major I to a minor III chord, and when I found it, it felt like I discovered a brand new emotion. 'Ice Dance' is just a perfect piece of music how it's used in the film. It feels so warm and safe It unfolds into this beautiful moment that will forever give me goose bumps.  

MOST INFLUENTIAL ALBUM

WILDFLOWERS | TOM PETTY

At a time when I was listening to mostly reggae and hip hop, a friend introduced me to this album.  I played it one time through and fell in love.  It became the soundtrack to my life for a few years when I was driving back home from college. There are thousands of moments of my life that are tied into this album. After this album, I started writing songs and recording music that I hoped could be as great as 'You Don't Know How It Feels', have the energy of 'You Wreck Me', or as simple as 'Wildflowers'.  It also opened up the door backwards into whole catalog of classic Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers songs, which then opened up the whole door to the world of 60's and 70's rock.  It opened up the door to Rick Rubin as a producer and trying to emulate what he did on the records he produced. To this day Wildflowers is the album I play on my birthday.