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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I’ve written over 60 songs. Receiving an Offering of Roses reached the semi‑finals of both the International Songwriting Competition and the Unsigned Only Music Awards. You can start there, then the rest of the playlist was curated by combat.
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.
Nine pieces so far, each one scoring real footage, from a January 6 hearing to a NASA launch. People are talking back in the comments, and that conversation is half the point.
Step inside the series →Projects
Best ScoreAMT International Film Festival 2026
Original score · short film · 2025
I composed the original score for the short film “Redlining,” including a reimagination of Clair de Lune that opens the film. It debuted in 2025 — and in 2026 the score won Best Score at the AMT International Film Festival.
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.
Working on something that could use music? I’d genuinely love to hear about it.
