About This Project
This dance film pairs choreography with a score that draws equally from live instrumentation and electronic production. Toby composed music that follows the body on screen — syncopated rhythms that lock with the footwork, sustained pads that stretch through moments of suspension, and textural shifts that mark transitions in the visual narrative.
Dance films sit at the intersection of two different art forms with different relationships to time. A film edit is precise; a dancer's phrasing is fluid. The score needed to anchor the piece rhythmically while leaving enough space for the movement to feel unforced. Toby built the tracks in layers, recording live saxophone and guitar parts over programmed percussion and synth beds, then editing the arrangement against the final cut.
The result is a score that bridges the organic and the electronic — warm acoustic tones sitting inside a tightly produced framework that serves both the eye and the ear.