About ComposerWire
ComposerWire exists because finding legitimate work as a media composer is harder than it should be.
The opportunities are out there — across Reddit, casting boards, games industry job boards, and studio career pages. But they're buried under unpaid "exposure" gigs, vague royalty promises, and listings that never mention a budget. General job boards return noise. Composer-side communities are full of other composers, not hirers. And as AI-generated music takes hold at the lower end of the market, the legitimate paid opportunities that remain are harder to find and easier to miss.
ComposerWire is a free weekly digest of scoring opportunities for film, TV, and game composers. A new issue goes out every Monday. Every listing is reviewed before it reaches you. If a budget is unstated, I say so. If a rate is low for the scope, I say so. If a project looks credible and worth your time, I tell you why.
It's built by a composer who got tired of doing this filtering manually every week — and happened to have the engineering background to make the process more efficient.
How listings are sorted
Every listing that reaches an issue sits in one of three tiers, and the tier is stated above each section so you can skip whatever isn't for you.
Professional — Confirmed budget, from a named studio, library or production company.
Indie — Budget small or not yet confirmed, but there is genuine intent to pay and the project is credible.
Collaborative — Unpaid and transparent about it: a genuine project with real mutual benefit, between people at a comparable career stage.
There is a fourth tier you never see. Reject covers exposure-only briefs, unpaid requests for full feature scores, vague royalty promises with no project history, spec work dressed up as auditions, AI content farms, mass-hiring spam, and anything that can't be independently verified. Marketplace listings from Twine, Upwork and Fiverr are rejected on sight, as is any listing naming cash or Zelle as the payment method — no paper trail, and no recourse for you.
Most of what I read ends up in that fourth tier.
Where the listings come from
Every week I read new listings from Reddit — r/gameDevClassifieds, r/INAT and r/Filmmakers — along with CastingCall.club, Hitmarker, Soundlister, Mandy, and filmmaker groups on Facebook. Each issue names the sources it drew from.
Know a source I should be checking? Reply to any issue and tell me. I read every response.
What readers say
"This is great mate, thank you"
"This is an excellent idea!"
"Another fab article! Can't wait for next week"
— Readers, r/composer
Read the archive
Every issue since #001 is free to read.
About the editor
Antonio Innocente is a software engineer and composer. He built ComposerWire after spending too many weeks filtering listings by hand, and now runs the sourcing pipeline that does it — reading a few hundred listings a week so that the handful worth your time are the ones that reach your inbox.
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