ANOUK DYUSSEMBAYEVA
ABOUT
Composium's mission & story
I am Anouk Dyussembayeva, a Kazakh film composer and music experience designer.

I launched Composium from scratch in 2020. Learning about the underrepresentation of female composers in the film scoring industry, I wanted to shed light on this issue and began interviewing women composers. According to the New York Times, "for the top 100 fictional films at the box office every year from 2007 to 2017, only 16 female composers were hired, compared with more than 1,200 men."

As I started looking at the application process of conservatories and universities that offer undergraduate degrees in music, I still had a lot of questions and decided to start reaching out to music professors.

Since then, Composium has done over 130 interviews with renowned Hollywood composers, industry giants (Sony, NVIDIA), stellar startups (Musiio, Mandolin, Vampr), VCs (Techstars, APEX Capital), and some of the best universities in the world (Harvard, Yale, Cornell, USC, and more), and leading professionals in the industry (Abby North, Dmitri Vietze, B.Earl, Eric Spivak, David Boyle). The list goes on.

At the same time, Composium runs different events and experiments. Calling myself a music experience designer, I launched BookXperience, where the audience experience a book on a deeper level with original music written specifically for the storyline. BookXperience: Episode One was organized in partnership with Starbucks and one of the leading publishing houses "MIF". Recently, I also collaborated with Jel Coffee to create a musical coffee. The main idea is that people buy this drink and get an original composition from a local artist.

With its Ambassador Program and the newly launched "Build Your Media" course, Composium aims to help students and aspiring professionals master the craft of writing high-quality articles, building connections, and creating new projects.

Composium's mission is to challenge the conventional way of thinking, deliver high-quality content, foster innovation, and educate — with every step of your journey in the entertainment industry.
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