About

Sydney Pollack is a seventh-semester student pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Writing & Production Game and Interactive Media Scoring with a minor in Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music. She was born in Northern Virginia and started taking guitar lessons when she was eleven years old. Throughout her adolescence, she developed skills on both the electric and classical guitar. Her love of music ignited with the thrill of live performances. "The feeling of truly connecting with an audience and seeing their faces while they experience the music cannot be replicated anywhere else."

 

At Berklee, she has refined her skills in music production, mixing, and arranging, embracing a variety of genres that reflect her diverse musical tastes. Her main compositional concentration is electronic music, influenced by jungle, ambient, and house music, but she also draws inspiration from genres like rock, metal, pop, and indie that she grew up listening to. "I frequently experiment with combining acoustic instruments and electronics as part of my creative process, creating hybrid soundscapes that are as much about atmosphere as they are about melody. I like writing pieces that develop gradually, adding a new element every few bars, and developing fresh textures that combine to produce something unique and powerful.”

 

"I take an unconventional approach to music, constantly seeking to combine unexpected ideas to produce something original and special. Every artist's composition, in my opinion, is influenced by their own experiences, and it is this individualism that lends each composition its own unique personality. Sharing musical experiences with one another is crucial because it helps every one of us build our own unique and beautiful sounds.”