Andrew Horning is an composer and mixer specializing in cinematic sound to enhance stories, games, and film.

Leitmotif Score — "The Forgiveness Story" (Living on the Edge)

Short description: Original score composed for a feature narrative series documenting a father's journey through grief and forgiveness after his son's violent crime. Three distinct reactive themes — a gentle melody tied to the wife's memory, a dissonant cue for the moment of discovery, and a resolving theme for the courtroom forgiveness scene. Each cue was written to respond to the emotional beat of the narration in real time.

This is the same instinct that drives adaptive music in narrative games.

Featured Implementation: 1 Clip, 3 Dynamic Mood Environments

A technical and creative demonstration showing how contrasting compositional languages and sound design matrices completely reshape the player's emotional immersion within the exact same gameplay loop.

Project Spotlight: Thoughtfulls (In Active Development)

  • The Blueprint: A multi-genre cozy couch co-op video game built on the Godot engine, targeting native Steam and Linux-based physical handhelds.

  • My Mandate: Collaborating directly with the independent studio By The Book Games to execute a comprehensive asset overhaul for the game's initial RPG mode phase. My focus is systematically replacing early development placeholder audio with custom, high-fidelity sound design.

  • The Constraint: Sourcing, designing, and rendering all custom SFX to meet rigid platform optimization metrics, utilizing .ogg format compression to maximize disk-space efficiency without spiking low-spec handheld CPU limits.

  • "Andrew Horning is one of those rare people who brings both incredible talent and genuine kindness to everything he does. He’s a brilliant audio editor and music composer with an ear for beauty and detail. Few people combine technical mastery and genuine artistry the way Andrew does. Every project he touches carries his trademark blend of excellence, humility, and heart. Working with him isn’t just a creative partnership… it’s an absolute gift."

    Seth Bartlette, Creative Producer

  • "Andrew Horning is one of the best in the business.  High quality work, easy to work with, and fast.  I highly recommend him for editing and mixing audio."

    Andrew Accardy, SVP, Global Ministries goes here

Multi-Platform Sonic Branding Matrix (Passages Travel Organization)

  • The Context: Composed a foundational thematic "brand song" and programmatically deconstructed it into scalable audio variants, including short visual video stingers and a lo-fi podcast configuration.

Passages Theme
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This is a shortened version for an animated logo.

Music Production & Mixing Portfolio

The Context: Studio production and engineering spanning multiple streaming assets, leveraging high-end mixing, spatial widening, and acoustic layering.

This is the long version of the main theme I composed

The intro music of this podcast is a reimagined version of the song, taking inspiration from part of the original melody and transforming it into a lofi beat.

Cinematic Mix & Narrative Soundscapes — "Ink in the Ocean" Documentary

Short description: I contributed music to the end credits and cleaned up and mixed the voices in this documentary.

Short Compositions:

  • “Andrew ensured broadcast-quality audio for more than 600 radio and podcast programs reaching an audience of over one million listeners. His commitment to excellence, meticulous editing, and dependable delivery set a consistently high standard that helped the ministry’s message come through with clarity and impact. Anyone who partners with Andrew will quickly experience the benefit of his expertise—reliable production, refined sound quality, and a heartfelt dedication to helping your content truly stand apart.”

    Chip Ingram, CEO, Living on the Edge

  • "Andrew delivers. For two and a half years he has produced six programs a week, each released for radio, podcast, and app, which comes to about 2,340 releases, reaching one million weekly listeners plus thousands online. Meticulous editing, rock-solid reliability, custom music beds for special programs, and his leadership moving our production suite to ProTools raised our quality bar and sped up our workflow. I trust him with our most visible content."

    Greg Kucala, SVP,  Broadcasting & Technology