Trained in the Screen Scoring Department at Berklee College of Music after spending his formative years amongst a family of physicists in Livermore, CA, Jake K. Siders is a synth programmer and musical sound designer specializing in horror and science fiction. Fascinated by fear of the unknown, Jake particularly enjoys working in the Lovecraftian/cosmic horror genre. Through synthesis and musical sound design, he creates compelling new soundscapes that your audience won’t have heard before.

Using modular synths, processed field recordings, unusual impulse responses, contact microphones and more, Jake creates custom score sound design assets (audio files, loops, Kontakt instruments, soft-synth patches) for media composers on a project to project basis. He also works with synthesizer developers, creating exciting and deep presets for instruments like Anukari, the 3D physics-based synthesizer.

In addition, Jake has worked directly with filmmakers to create highly atmospheric original scores for their films that have screened at genre festivals across the country. He has received 2 Best Score awards at Las Po Film Fest.

Jake’s filmic influences include the films of Moorhead & Benson, David Prior’s The Empty Man, Mike Flanagan’s work, Kubrick’s The Shining, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and Joseph Kosinski's Tron: Legacy.