Composer • Sound Artist
Creating cinematic music and immersive soundscapes for film, games, and interactive experiences.
Alvéolos — Animation Teaser (Original Score)
Featured Works
Scores and sound worlds for stories in motion.
Selected projects across games, films, and interactive atmospheres.
Original soundtrack created for the video game developed by Fun Fortress. The score explores deep ambient textures and immersive soundscapes, designed to evoke the mystery, scale, and beauty of space.
Collaboration with King Lu, an Asian American filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia, on his upcoming film Nomad, which explores themes of family, the Korean War, and separation. The goal was to create a nostalgic and melancholic score that supports the emotional weight of the film.
Collaboration with Threading Squirrel to compose the original soundtrack for PolyTown. The soundtrack is currently in development, with select tracks already available to listen to.
Composed for string orchestra, crafting slow emotional climaxes through meticulous orchestration.
Created teaser music for Nuno, a Portuguese animation artist. The teaser was featured at the CINANIMA and MONSTRA festivals.
Musical Languages
Piano & Acoustic
Intimate compositions exploring melody, harmony, and human expression through acoustic instruments.
Melancholic · ominous · serene
Film
Emotional storytelling through themes, orchestration, and atmospheric scoring.
Memory · movement · restraint
Games
Immersive sound worlds and adaptive music designed to support exploration, interaction, and narrative.
Worldbuilding · systems · flow
Ambient
Expansive textures, evolving environments, and sonic landscapes shaped by space and emotion.
Space · silence · depth
Electronic
Experimental synthesis, processed sound, and rhythmic structures exploring texture and movement.
Pulse · grain · tension
Orchestral
Classical composition techniques combined with modern production and cinematic expression.
Harmony · theme · scale
Farid Saryev is a composer and sound artist based in Philadelphia. Born in Azerbaijan and raised in Russia, his work is shaped by a multicultural background and a wide spectrum of musical influences.
His music moves between orchestral writing, electronic textures, instrumental forms, and experimental sound, often blending these languages into cohesive, atmospheric works for narrative-driven media, with a focus on emotional narrative and spatial sound design.