Andreas Aaser makes music that starts with listening — to a forest, to the resonance of a room, or to the raw noise of a string released from control. His work inhabits the intersection of orchestral composition and the textures of the physical world, building immersive sound worlds where field recordings and found sounds carry as much emotional weight as a full symphony.

Whether crafting the twisted, manipulated vocals for best score-nominated Supervision or the urgent, frenetic guitars of the multi-award-winning Heatwave, each of Aaser's film scores finds its own sound world. Aaser has also contributed to some of the biggest scores in television through his collaboration with Emmy-nominated composer Natalie Holt, including Marvel’s Loki, Star Wars’ Obi-Wan Kenobi, AMC’s The Talamasca, and Aardman’s upcoming Shaun the Sheep movie. Originally from Norway, he trained at the National Film and Television School before settling in London.

His 2023 EP, Songs of Tomorrow, explored a post-apocalyptic world through a "roughed-up" string quartet, timpani and electronics. His debut album, arriving later this year, goes further. Written for string quartet and field recordings of trees, the record traces the life cycle of a tree — from seed to canopy to decay. It is a celebration of growth and change, inviting the listener to step into the forest and listen as the world quiets down.

This impulse to treat music as "sound first, notation second" was forged in Trondheim, Norway. Immersed in the independent film scene as a sound designer while studying music technology, Aaser learned that a recording of wind through branches could be as cinematic as a cello solo. From writing for the Oslo Philharmonic in high school to playing the nose flute on Star Wars in his East London studio years later, Aaser’s work remains anchored in that early discovery - the world is already making music; you just have to listen.