Niko likesNerds

A lot of what shows up in the music started somewhere nerdy. When I was a kid, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time completely blew my mind. The graphics felt unbelievable at the time, but what really stuck with me was the music. Not just the melodies themselves, but the idea that music could do something inside a story. Songs opened doors, changed time, revealed memories, connected characters. The soundtrack wasn’t sitting in the background. It was part of the world.

A lot of creative ideas still start in places like that. A D&D campaign needing a theme. A sci-fi hallway needing ambient sound. A boss fight that got lodged in my brain. Over time, the nerd shelf and the studio shelf basically became the same shelf. Games, scores, books, dice, soundtracks, old movies, guitars, plugins… It all feeds the same creative loop.