Jamie Masters
Musical Intelligence

25 years professional experience making music for ads, promos and idents, unique expertise in audio branding, and a lifetime as an independent creative artist.

Explore my work

Choose one of the options below:

Advertising

Original music – arrangements – rerecords

Audio branding

Brand music analysis – strategy – podcast

Labours of love

Music for concert – dance – theatre

My services

  • Original musical composition, to any brief
  • Arrangements, reworks of existing tracks, edits and adaptations
  • Audio branding consultancy
  • Expert musical profiling of brand and competitors
  • Evidence-based musicological research
  • Podcast production and editing
  • Written notation for performance: transcriptions from score, midi, or audio
  • Musicological reports in cases of potential copyright infringement
  • Lyrics for songs

About me

Creativity and critical thinking

For 20 years I was one of the core team of in-house composers at Adelphoi Music in London, where I learned to deliver professional quality musical content on demand, to tight deadlines. But my early career was as an academic at Cambridge, in the field of Latin Literature, and there I developed a different set of skills: logical rigour, intellectual curiosity, and a dissatisfaction with received wisdom.

Both sides come together in my work on audio branding, where my evidence-based approach cuts through the smoke and mirrors and shows where the benefits actually lie. 

What has always driven me, in everything I do, is the urge to get to the heart of how things work, to explain those processes to others, and to use that knowledge to create new things – fun things, useful things, beautiful things

A wide range of activity…

Poetry and Civil War in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Cambridge University Press 1992
Dr Faustess musical theatre show
Sonic logo longevity graphs
orchestral session
Bloopidoop electronic instrument circuit design
Baxxaqazil board game
Infinite Glimpse dance theatre (photo © Jane Hobson)
brass players in Prague
4th Symphony score (detail)
Minotaur board game
Hippolytos chorus dancers
Medea poster