Creations — Music & Sound Design for Animation, Commercials and Dance
Kuba is an animation film composer and sound designer based in Montreal, creating original scores and sound design for animated films, commercials, and dance. His work has been recognized internationally, including Best Sound Award (Concordia Film Festival), Audience Award (Musiques en Courts, Sceaux), and First Prize at Animegaron (Athens). He is available for commissions in film scoring, animation, commercial sound design and game audio.
See some selection of completed projects.
We are nature, nature is us
Kuba composed the score and sound design for this non-commercial World Wildlife Fund campaign, a stop-motion animation hand-illustrated frame by frame in colored pencil by artist Natasza Cetner, produced by BluBlu Studios. Inspired by the poem “We Are Nature,” the film reflects on humanity’s connection to the natural world. To match the animation’s organic, hand-made character, Kuba built the soundtrack from field recordings — forest ambience, wind, leaves, branches, and percussive hits on tree trunks — layered with cello, ukulele and light percussion for a warm, intimate sound.
Type of project
Animation Commercial
instrumentation
Sound design / Cello, Ukulele, Percussions,
Date
September 2025
Location
Montreal / Canada
KANARINI
Kuba composed the score and sound design for Kanarini, an animated short telling the story of miners who once used canaries as living alarms for danger underground. To capture the atmosphere, he built the soundtrack around factory noise, industrial textures and a simple melodic line on synthesizer.
Award 1st Prize for Music and Creative Sound Design, Animegaron
Type of project
Film / Animation
instrumentation
Sound design / Electronic
Date
Mai 2024
Location
Athens / Greece
I am Celine Dion
Kuba composed the opening title score for I Am Celine Dion. The excerpt scores the film’s disorienting opening sequence — a dynamic run of shots from a car following Celine’s attack — building from long string textures into a melodic theme carried by solo cello, then bass clarinet, over an interlocking rhythmic pattern of piano, xylophone, harp and percussion. The title music resolves into a warm, positive chord as the story arrives at the house in Las Vegas, where a lighter string theme signals home.
Composed for the Young Talent Award 2025, Kraków Film Music Festival
Type of project
Film
instrumentation
Orchestral
Date
Jan/Feb 2025
Location
Montreal / Canada
Glacier
Through semi-abstract visuals and non-linear narrative, Glacier is an experimental film that explores the emotional journey of living through the harshness of anxiety and finding that it is not an end, however bleak and overwhelming.
Experimental sound design inspired by art techniques, used paper, plastic, sand, canvas. The soundtrack features a live string quartet and harp, recorded at McGill University.
The audio work was recognized with the Best Sound Award at the Concordia Film Festival 2025
Type of project
Sound Design and Music
Location
Montreal/ Canada
Date
Mai 2025
orchestration
strings quartet and harp
Voyagers
Kuba composed the music for Voyagers, a playful animated short about a tiger who escapes its hunter and ends up on a space station with an astronaut and his fish. To keep the score coherent with the image, each character was scored with a signature instrument — oriental flute for the hunter, congas for the tiger, trumpet for the astronaut. The piece premiered as a live cine-concert at Cinéma Trianon in Sceaux.
Award Audience Award for music composition and sound design, Musiques en Courts, Sceaux 2023
Type of project
Film / Animation
instrumentation
Oriental flute, Trumpet, Violin, Cello, Percussions, Piano
Date
11 / 2023
Location
Sceaux / France
GAME MUSIC CONTEST - Katowice
For the Game Music Contest at Game Music Fest Katowice, Kuba composed a one-minute symphonic musical logo for the festival, aiming for a big, cinematic sound with rich orchestral color and dynamic contrast.
Award 1st Prize for Music Composition for Symphony Orchestra
Type of project
Media / Commerce
instrumentation
Symphonic Orchestra
Date
18.02.2023
Location
Katowice / Poland
Fall
Kuba composed peaceful solo piano music for Fall, a short nature film directed by Julien Hulin.
Type of project
Film / Nature
instrumentation
Piano
Date
Fall 2023
Location
Paris / France
Someone in Love
Music composition for big orchestra, an application for composing competition Call for Scores – European Recording Orchestra’s 2023.
The composition was successful and got into the Top 50.
Type of project
Hollywood Film Music
instrumentation
Symphonic Orchestra
Date
01.06.2023
Location
Paris / France
Wing it !
This short animation tells the adventures of a cat and a dog. Kids just love this little funny animation movie.
In this type of animation, I find it necessary to emphasize key elements in the narrative and to exaggerate the tempo and emotions by music. Such exaggeration of musical elements is what characterizes this composition. The composition received positive feedback and was shortlisted as
FINALIST in Score Relief 2024 Film Music Competition
Type of project
Film music / Animation
instrumentation
Symphonic Orchestra
Date
January 2023
Location
Manchester / England
pourquoi as-tu laissé le cheval à la solitude ?
Musical composition for String Orchestra.
To relate to the African landscape I limited myself to rhythmic music. In order to create an original sound, I used a much expanded playing technique.
Work inspired by the compositions of Kevin Volans and Maurice Ravel.
Directed by Faouzi Bensaïdi
Produced by Barney Production
Composed for OST Challange 2024.
Type of project
Film
instrumentation
Strings Orchestra
Date
February 2025
Location
Clermont-Ferrant / France
Gatekeeper
Minimalistic composition for a documentary film.
The sound of the flute symbolizes the wind. It is the reason for the suicides of people who throw themselves off the cliff.
It’s an experiment with the timbre of the instrument using extended playing techniques to achieve an organic sonority.
Flute Julien
Piano, Melodica Jakub Tokarczyk
Directed by Yung Chang
Produced by Erico Miyagava, Bob Moor, Yung Chang
Composed for a course of “Techniques de composition de musique de film” at the University of Montreal
Type of project
Film / Doc
instrumentation
Flute, melodica, piano,
Date
February 2025
Location
University of Montreal / Canada
Solei
Musical composition inspired by minimalism pulsatif style and the works of Terry Riley and Steve Reich. Used the chop-and-screw technique, but in the other way, I stretched the soundtrack in time and making the sound pick up. The recording at the end is the record orginally, and non treated, is the lowest string lowered by an octave on the viola de gamba.
Played by Sussie Napper,
Recorded 1 Feb 2025 in Montreal,
Film “Ali Shan” directed by Yung Chang
Made for a course of “Techniques de composition de musique de film” at the University of Montreal.
Type of project
Film / Doc
instrumentation
Viola de gamba
Date
07.02.2025
Location
University of Montreal / Canada
The Peasants
Orchestral music compostions made for a submission to music rescore competition Young Talents Award during the Film Music Festival Krakow 2024.
The participants’ task is to compose music for a fragment of the film “The Peasants” (2023) (pl. Chłopi) . The score should be composed for the instruments included in the orchestra lineup.
Type of project
Film / Animation
instrumentation
Symphonic Orchestra
Date
mai 2024
Location
Kraków / Poland
"EMBOUCANATOR"
Kuba created the full sound design and part of the score for Emboucanator, a student animated film about a character trying to escape his fate despite his partner’s persistence. Produced as a collaboration between Master MAAAV Lyon and MOPA Arles animation school.
Type of project
Film / Animation
Location
Arles / France
Date
Mai 2024
Infernal Bonds
Among all the students at the academy of hell, Balam is a mediocre demon.
He decides to prove himself when his teacher introduces a new exercise: making a human child cry. He then chooses his target: Charlie, a naive little girl who enjoys playing with the strange little creature that follows her everywhere.
Type of project
Animation
instrumentation
various instruments /jazz
Date
Mai 2024
Location
LISAA Paris / France
HopeGuard
Hopeguard is a third-person dark fantasy game.
Journey through caves, ruins, and forests to solve environmental puzzles and fulfill your quest -but with a new perspective.
As Lead Sound Designer, I supervised the audio team, directed the overall sound identity of the game, and crafted key elements of the sonic experience.
My responsibilities included recording and editing custom Foley (sword clashes, footsteps, impacts), dialogue recording, cinematic sound mixing, and ensuring coherence between sound design and game mechanics. Working closely with other sound designers, I led the creative and technical direction of the audio pipeline from concept to implementation.
Type of project
Sound Design / Game
Location
Montreal/ Canada
Date
January / Mars 2025
composer of the year award 2023
Kubaès entry for the Sonuscore Composer of the Year Award 2023, composed using a range of virtual instruments.
Type of project
Media / Commerce
instrumentation
Varied VST instruments
Date
February 2023
Location
Paris / France
Sang d'encre
A short animation about inspiration. A writer can’t find inspiration to write a poem. She comes but when we do not know when she will leave. Author of the lyrics is Charles Baudelaire
Director: Tom Gouill Joeffrey Lavanche Melanie Tournois
Music and Sound Design: Jakub Tokarczyk
Voice: Charlie Tokeley
Type of project
Film / Animation
instrumentation
Varied VST
Date
January 2024
Location
Lyon / France
Templum
Instrumental piece composed during a collaboration between the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Master MAAAV.
The inspiration for the music was a painting “Les marchands chassés du temple” (ang. “Jesus drives the merchants out of the temple”) by Jean Baptiste Jouvenet from the 17th century.
Type of project
Live / Concert
instrumentation
flute, trumpet, basson, accordion, contrabas, piano
Date
March 2024
Location
Lyon / France
PERFUME
Kuba composed Perfume, a modern industrial-electro score for the graduation performance of choreographer Sebastian Szul’s contemporary ballet piece.
Type of project
Dance / Live
instrumentation
Electronics
Date
2020
Location
Łódź / Poland
MYTH OF MIDAS
The music, composed to the choreography of Lukasz Szkiłądz (Cracovia Danza Ballet) based on the Greek “Myth of Midas”. It’s a combination of modern electronics and traditional Greek music played on characteristic intruments from that era, lyre, harp, flutes ect. It puts the listener in a kind of trance.
Type of project
Dance / Live
instrumentation
oriental instruments +
electronics
Date
2.12.2019
Location
Kraków / Poland
EASTERN FASHION WEEK BIALYSTOK
Composing the gala’s opening song to the cheography of Łukasz Szkiłądź.Composition “Pavana” is a contemporary interpretation of Pavane des Saisons by J.B.Lully.
Type of project
Dance / Live
instrumentation
Electronics
Date
2019
Location
Białystok / Poland
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