Ascend
Single player game | KorpCorp and TGA | Release 2024
In a serene, mysterious setting you wake up and need to find your way out. While making your way through the grass-clad landscape you will face your own emotions and memories and learn to deal with and accept them to move on. Beautiful and thoughtful, this game provides the player with an emotional journey. The score features breathy textures and clear harmonic influences from Baltic minimalism.
Developed by KorpCorp through The Game Assembly. Score composed and mixed by Adam Hesselbom. Music system implementation by Elias Böök.
Earth
Horror short film | Directed by John Stenberg | Release 2024
An anonymous city girl seeks her roots in the depths of the forest, but Earth herself has awakened and wants revenge on man’s greedy ways. The story and score uses the language of spirituality and religion to portray the complex relationship between the Earth and mankind. Folkloristic and spiritual yet heavily loaded with industrial tone, the score delivers an impactful companion to the striking cinematography.
Score composed by Adam Hesselbom
Vocals by Alice Thors
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Single player game
Play as an ambitious chef who sets up a restaurant in space during the early days of astro-colonization. Your task is to cook up delicious food for the eager customers before they get impatient and leave. Use your profits to upgrade your gear and recipe bank and invest in the splendor of your dining room.
Developed by Benjamin Bodin, Niels Pagnon Eriksson, Sara Golob, Axel Jervill, Johannes Lundberg, Vera Teahan, Malin Ågren. Score composed, mixed and implemented by Adam Hesselbom, Natalie Schäfer and Alan Haksten
The Discarded Ones
Drama short film | Directed by Johan Andrén | Release 2024
A Union soldier of the American Civil war, notorious for his high kill count on confederate troops, gets captured and forms an unlikely alliance to plan his escape.
Score composed by Adam Hesselbom
Produced by Magical Pictures
Boxaren
Drama short film | Directed by Visar Makolli | Premiere TBA
A passionate, young boxing talent in Malmö’s Rosengård suburb deals with losing an important fight, shedding light on issues of macho culture and facing setbacks.
Score composed and recorded by Adam Hesselbom, final mix by Yehya Breshe
Produced in collaboration with Kortfilmsprogrammet - Film i Skåne
The City
Piece for orchestra | 3’30 mins
Commissioned by Malmö University, this piece explores the city of Malmö and how its vibrant and diverse cultural life breaks through the hard, industrial constructions of steel and concrete on which it was built.
World premiere on Oct 13th at Malmö Live by Malmö University Orchestra conducted by Daniel Hansson
Setting: 2 flutes (2nd doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (2nd doubling on bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, timpani, percussion, strings
Josefine Modig
Documentary | Directed by Olivers Abens | Premiere TBA
In this 30-minute documentary we meet Josefine Modig, who has devoted her life to MMA fighting. We embark on a journey into the mind and everyday life of an athlete at a high level, and get glimpses of the situation for female fighters in a male-dominated sport.
The score to Josefine Modig is built around the sound of a string quartet, the elegant chamber setting reflecting on the dance-like consideration and respect MMA fighters exercise while beating each other up.
Score composed, recorded and mixed by Adam Hesselbom, Alan Haksten and Natalie Schäfer
Malmö Academy of Music: Professional musician programmes
Advertising/PR, Library music
For this short information film showcasing the bachelor’s programmes in symphonic and classical instruments, the Malmö Academy of Music wanted music that was reminiscent of walking down the corridor and hearing students rehearse. My piece Tribute to Steve R is played towards the end of the video. The track was delivered in three different lengths to suit the filmmakers’ needs in edit.
Joel Wååg, trumpet; Thea Lundbäck, flute; David Westerdahl, violin.
Music composed, recorded and mixed by Adam Hesselbom.
Eulogy for an American Hero
Concert piece for orchestra | 5 mins
Symphonic concert piece based on the opening of the script of JFK by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar. Military and patriotic motifs form the basis for this sonic exploration of the state of the nation during a particular time, as well as specifically the plot to murder its young president.
World premiere by Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra on May 17th in Helsingborgs Konserthus, conducted by Jakob Hultberg.
Setting: 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 2 trumpets in C, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion, strings.
Detached
Online multiplayer puzzle game for PC
Join with a friend and play as the two robots Deta and Ched and solve a series of puzzles by detaching the robots’ limbs and throwing them around the room. Game developed as a part of the game engine-driven development course at Malmö University by Hoang Luu, David Hoang, Olof Norrlind, Simon Wennolf, Truls Rockström, Fredrik Andreasson.
I was responsible for the whole production chain from coming up with a concept for the music that fitted the development team’s vision, composing and producing all the tracks and doing the implementation in FMOD to make the music adaptive to the game. The music uses additive layering and the game itself can dictate based on game parameters how intense the music will be based upon events in the gameplay.
Demo tracks.
A selection of demos available through my SoundCloud.