Music Direction/Composition/Production
Selected work
- Chery Launch Event 2024: problems I sonicalyy solved
- Lucid Launch Event 2023: music for the factory opening in Saudi Arabia and the launch event
- 9th Saudi Film Festival 2023: opening animation score
- iRead (Ithra), Sheikh Zayed International Airport, Studio B TV station, Moon Hunters podcast: scoring and sound branding
- Music Curation for Rolls-Royce, Red Bull, Sephora, Marc Jacobs
About
A classically trained pianist from Belgrade, Nikodia has worked in recording studios since she was 15. She toured the Balkans with her own band and played Exit festival before moving to Dubai, where she spent ten years as a performer, DJ, host and curator then became a Music Director at AweStruckPro Creative Agency in 2023. She studied film and TV scoring and music therapy at Berklee Online, and is driven by one mission: bringing more original music to the UAE.
Unexplainable Music
The primary task of music composition is finding the right emotion in the brief. What is the feeling that the music has to provide? Is it something powerful and joyful, celebratory… or is it mystical, dark, ominous and hidden? Or is it maybe funny, silly, mean but innocent? Or does it make us feel in peace and connected to each other? What is the meaning of the message that the music can support? This is how all the scoring is approached: from the level of emotional intelligence.
Translating the emotion into pulse, rhythm, melody and, finally, harmony, and combining that with another experimental layer of timbre, tempo and flavor of the sound, is a challenge always worth taking. The compositions can align smoothly with the message only when the music is true to itself. The goal is goosebumps on the skin, closing eyes and being immersed in the unexplainable.
That’s how the Music is made.
