Soundtracking the Feeling
1. The Handmaid’s Tale + Final Breath
Music written and produced by Vanessa Fernandez
Handmaid’s Tale footage comp
In this piece, I’ve paired distorted piano and vocals with ambient acoustic textures — slightly industrial, almost tool like. The soundscape is designed to breathe inside the emotional tension of The Handmaid’s Tale, not to overwhelm it, but to echo it.
My intention was to capture the stillness beneath the violence, the internal resistance beneath obedience. The music reflects a quiet defiance, a ghost of feeling in a world where feeling is dangerous.
This is the kind of emotional terrain I write for: atmospheric, haunting, and deeply human.
This is a non-commercial, artistic demonstration intended solely to illustrate the cinematic potential of my music. All video footage remains the property of its original creators and rights holders. No copyright infringement is intended. This work is not for distribution or sale.
2. Severance (S1 Office Dance Scene) + Kitsch Bossa Nova Track
Music written and produced by Vanessa Fernandez
Disassociation With a Smile: Music + Severance
Here, I’ve soundtracked one of Severance’s most surreal and oddly joyful moments, the office dance incentive, with a tongue-in-cheek bossa nova inspired by 1960s cocktail lounges and elevator music.
The juxtaposition is intentional. Beneath the kitsch, there’s discomfort, the sonic equivalent of smiling while everything inside you splits in two. It plays into Severance’s absurdity, its warped optimism, its sense of manufactured pleasure.
I love working in spaces where genre nostalgia can be bent into something uncanny and sharp.
This is a non-commercial, artistic demonstration intended solely to illustrate the cinematic potential of my music. All video footage remains the property of its original creators and rights holders. No copyright infringement is intended. This work is not for distribution or sale.
3. The Cook (Swiss Short Film) + Don’t Speak to Me Now
Music written by Vanessa Fernandez, production by Greg J Walker
Don’t Speak to Me Now begins with a sense of ritual, controlled, deliberate, and quietly foreboding. The lyrics hint at finality, disconnection, and a calm refusal to engage.
“Enjoy this meal / it’s the last one you’ll get... Drink up / don’t wake up.”
As the scene ends and the credits roll, the music shifts. The voice fractures the calm. There’s a sudden rupture, a refusal to stay polite. The track builds into something fierce, final, and unignorable.
This is a goodbye without softness. A send-off without apology.
This is a non-commercial, artistic demonstration intended solely to illustrate the cinematic potential of my music. All video footage remains the property of its original creators and rights holders. No copyright infringement is intended. This work is not for distribution or sale.