Music for Film & Media

‘We’ Are Not Different — RCA Collaboration

COMPOSER/ SOUND DESIGN/ MIXING ENGINEER

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2025

About the project

We’re Not Different is an animated film created in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, exploring the emotional experiences and psychological weight of depression. I was responsible for the composition, sound design, and mixing.

Creative process

Creative process

I built the sound world around instability, suffocation, emotional pressure, and loss of control, using arpeggiators, electronic textures, and evolving synthetic sounds to create a sense of psychological unease. As the film progresses, the musical language becomes increasingly restrained. In the later section, I reduced the musical material to simple, recurring melodic ideas to reflect the repetitive and cyclical nature of everyday life. The contrast between evolving electronic textures and minimal recurring material allowed the sound to follow the protagonist’s changing psychological state.

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Credits

Director/ Animator : Ruixue Peng Composer/ SoundDesign/ Mixing Engineer: Xinrui Ma Recording Studio: L10

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