Listen to full scores with their scripts.
Stock tracks are written for other purposes and seldom fit the place, the period or the pace of a scene. Licensed recordings come with rights to clear. A live actor never speaks to a fixed running time, so every cue has to be timed to the stage, not the other way round. Most companies end up with a patchwork of borrowed pieces, or with no soundtrack at all. These scores are built cue by cue, for the play, with the sounds listed below.
Instruments, genres and idioms chosen for the place and period of the play: a bowed double bass under a Puritan village's guilt, dhol and madal percussion on a Kolkata terrace, a viol and tabor in Illyria, a bowed vibraphone drone over a Spanish wedding, a pungi phrase and a naal drum in a Marathi drama.
The sounds the story turns on: a fist pounding a door like a gunshot, a halberd butt struck on the ground, a sword drawn slowly from its scabbard, a factory siren giving way to lathes and stamping.
The air of a place: a ceiling fan's creak and a baby crying in another room, a hearth crackling beneath footsteps on stone, thunder rolling into the Witches' industrial clatter. And silence, placed on purpose where a moment needs none.
Our first credit was Equus, scored cue by cue from the script. Since then the same process has been pointed at plays in other languages and idioms. Pilots are under way, including Love, a Hindi play for a director in Chicago, and the showcases now hold full soundtracks for nine plays in English, Hindi, Bengali and Marathi.
Each began the way every commission does, with the script: reading it for its shape and its silences, designing the sonic world, and only then making the music. Hear where that has got to in the showcases below, or tell us about your production.
Every score begins where every good score begins: with the script.
We read the drama for its shape and its silences — where it rises, where it holds, what the audience must feel and when.
We design the production's sonic world and map the moments that need music — and the ones that need none.
You receive your original background score, cue by cue, with performance guides showing exactly how each piece serves the show.
Listen to full soundtracks, work in the tool yourself, or talk to us about your production.
Restricted showcase — password-protected soundtracks for real productions, in a cue-by-cue player with every cue described. Public showcase — full soundtracks for landmark public-domain plays, free with your name and email.
Pilot — expect imperfections. In the showcases now: Macbeth and Equus (English); Andha Yug and Andher Nagari (Hindi); Football (Bengali); Ekach Pyala (Marathi).
Studio — our self-serve scoring tool — is opening early access to a small number of theatre companies and playwrights. Come score your own production, with Studio guiding you through the creative decisions.
Join the pilot queueA play doesn't need a playlist. It needs music that belongs to it — that rises where the drama rises, holds where it holds, and never borrows from somewhere else.
Discuss your productionFull score or scenes only — every commission is priced to the production
Or tell us about the production — the story, the stage, the opening night.
Structured dramatic and aural design before any music is made.
Original cues, built for this drama. You hear drafts before anything is final.
Delivered in formats your team can use — ready for tech rehearsal.