COFER

COFER creates exceptional music for Hollywood’s biggest studios. With a diverse portfolio that includes work for Warner Brothers, Disney, A24, Marvel, Universal, Sony, Hulu, Amazon Netflix, and Apple. COFER has garnered recognition for his custom music and masterful remixes of iconic artists. His work can be heard in movies and franchises such as Barbie, The Creed Franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spiderman: Homecoming, The Handmaid’s Tale, and many more. His notable film projects consist of scoring a Roger Corman film, “Art School Of Horrors”, the Emmy Award-winning “Wasteland,” and his award-winning score for the Short Film “Stars in New Mexico”. COFER’s is known for his ability to blend classic film scoring, unique rhythms, sound design, remixes, and pop songwriting. His distinct style and unparalleled ability to craft unforgettable songs for media have made him a sought-after composer for prominent creative advertising agencies worldwide.

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.