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Tom Kinsella designs the musical identity of interactive worlds.

TKIMUSE is the professional composer and music designer brand of Tom Kinsella: a UK-based composer working across games, animation, documentaries, trailers and other media.

Tom Kinsella

Tom Kinsella is a Royal Leamington Spa-based composer who has freelanced since 2019, writing music for more than 30 indie games alongside work for documentaries, animation, trailers and other media.

The modern TKIMUSE offer is broader than soundtrack delivery: Tom can help define a project's musical language, compose the score, orchestrate it, produce it, design adaptive behaviour and support implementation in tools such as Wwise and Unity.

Tom has an extensive background as a music educator, teaching Music, Musical Theatre and Music Technology in UK schools and academies since 2015.

BMus (Hons) Degree in Music and Popular Music.

Master of Fine Arts in Professional Composition / Video Game Composition & Orchestration through ThinkSpace Education — completed 2026. Postgraduate work developed expertise in interactive music, orchestration, video-game composition, Wwise, Unity and music implementation.

Tom’s study and training included work with expert professionals Guy Michelmore, award-winning screen composer known for Marvel animation including Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Iron Man: Armored Adventures; Dr Norman Ludwin, Hollywood orchestrator whose credits include Jurassic World, Inside Out and Star Trek Into Darkness; and Dr Tim Summers, video-game-music scholar, co-founder of the Ludomusicology Research Group, and author of Understanding Video Game Music and Pixel Soundtracks.

Musical influences

Themes, atmosphere, colour and interactive storytelling.

Joe Hisaishi performing music from Studio Ghibli films

Joe Hisaishi

memorable themes and emotional clarity

Halo soundtrack artwork associated with Martin O'Donnell

Martin O'Donnell

world-building through bold musical identity

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim landscape associated with Jeremy Soule's score

Jeremy Soule

atmosphere, landscape and fantasy immersion

Portrait of Claude Debussy photographed by Nadar around 1908

Claude Debussy

colour, texture and orchestral impression

Start the conversation

Building a world? Let’s give it a sound.

Bring Tom in early to shape the score, the musical language and the way the music behaves in the finished experience.