Music by Lucas Grindley
We’ve gone numb to the images on our screens.
I write music that helps us reconnect with the world and our own power to change it.
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Everything I’ve written has appeared on SoundCloud as my composition sketchpad.
2025 International Songwriting Competition · Semi‑Finalist
Latest tracks
Hear everything on SoundCloud →Scoring the News
What if current events had a movie score? Scoring the News is where I find out. Original music for footage we’ve stopped feeling.
Projects
Original score · short film · 2025
I composed the original score for the short film “Redlining,” including a reimagination of Clair de Lune that is the film’s first scene. The film debuted in 2025 and is in festivals in 2026.
View on IMDb →Music · podcast & promotional video
I created the music for Next City’s promotional video and the 30-second ads airing on the eponymous podcast, which I host. Next City is the solutions newsroom where I serve as Executive Director.
Watch the promo on YouTube →About
Composing is a practice of manifestation. Philip Glass once said he listens for the ghost river and tries to reveal it on this side. When something is trying to break through, I’m grateful to help reveal it. But I’m not the end of the process. As you listen, you interpret, and what the music expresses is ultimately both collective and individual.
For two decades I’ve worked in journalism. I’m Executive Director of Next City and the host of its podcast. I am a two-time NLGJA LGBTQ Journalist of the Year, and a three-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ national Sigma Delta Chi award. Being a journalist makes me a better composer.
I often say that a narrative is like the music that’s been playing in the room before we got there. To write music is to become the narrative, letting us feel what’s happening even before the scene begins.
Hudson Valley, New York.
