Film music composer with over 10 years of professional experience creating original scores for film, TV, advertising, interactive digital art, and other media. He has produced several thousand tracks across many genres and emotional narratives, delivering production-ready results under tight deadlines. In addition to that, he teaches film music at a university. Since starting his Master’s in 2023, Daniel has closely followed generative AI and applied it in both academic and professional workflows, with a focus on understanding limitations and extending creative audio production. Alongside composing, he works as a freelance audiobook producer for ElevenLabs and as a German music quality expert for Mercor.

Daniel Pohl

Film music composer with over 10 years of professional experience creating original scores for film, TV, advertising, interactive digital art, and other media. He has produced several thousand tracks across many genres and emotional narratives, delivering production-ready results under tight deadlines. In addition to that, he teaches film music at a university. Since starting his Master’s in 2023, Daniel has closely followed generative AI and applied it in both academic and professional workflows, with a focus on understanding limitations and extending creative audio production. Alongside composing, he works as a freelance audiobook producer for ElevenLabs and as a German music quality expert for Mercor.

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Film music composer with over 10 years of professional experience creating original scores for film, TV, advertising, interactive digital art, and other media. He has produced several thousand tracks across many genres and emotional narratives, delivering production-ready results under tight deadlines.

In addition to that, he teaches film music at a university.

Since starting his Master’s in 2023, Daniel has closely followed generative AI and applied it in both academic and professional workflows, with a focus on understanding limitations and extending creative audio production. Alongside composing, he works as a freelance audiobook producer for ElevenLabs and as a German music quality expert for Mercor.

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Language

German
Fluent
English
Fluent

Work Experience

Music Audio Expert (German) at Mercor
July 1, 2026 - Present
Evaluate the quality of AI-generated music from upcoming state-of-the-art models. Compare AI outputs to original reference tracks, and rate generated music in terms of quality, artistic skill, and technical precision. Reliably assess model behavior and precisely categorize generated music across multiple hundreds of criteria.
Freelance Audiobook Producer and Evaluator at ElevenLabs
June 1, 2026 - Present
Produce AI-assisted audiobook content using speech synthesis technologies. Ensure quality and realism through editing, quality control, and audio refinement. Work with state-of-the-art AI audio tools, evaluating outputs from both creative and technical perspectives. Also engaged in improving the UI for advanced workflows.
Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
April 1, 2026 - Present
Elective 'Scoring for Media' with focus on film music.
Lecturer at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
October 1, 2025 - Present
Teach Film Scoring at university level, covering conceptual development, composition, music production, and scoring techniques. Plan and present course content focused on professional film music workflows and industry practices. Mentor students in developing original scores for visual media through interdisciplinary collaboration and guide creative/technical workflows between composers, filmmakers, and other creative disciplines.
Lecturer
October 1, 2025 - Present
Lecturer for workshop series 'Scoring Workshop'; focusing on composition and production for music for various media (film, video games, theater exhibitions).
Project Engineer for media technology
August 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025
Planning and commissioning of media technology installations.
Intern at FunDeMental
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
Film sound and music studio; gained experiences for film sound and music production / composition for feature films and documentaries.
Film Composer at Self Employed
August 1, 2016 - Present
Composed several thousand original music tracks for hundreds of commercial and creative projects. Specialized in cinematic orchestral music and cross-genre compositions with modern compositional and production workflows. Experienced delivering production-ready music under tight deadlines while adapting compositions to different emotional narratives, genres, and technical production requirements. Developed efficient workflows to generate high-quality original music at scale while meeting delivery timelines.
Freelance Composer / Producer / Audio Engineer
January 1, 2016 - Present
Freelancing work as composer, producer and audio engineer; 10 years, 150+ film projects.

Education

Master of Arts at University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025
Bachelor of Arts at University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2023
Master of Arts (Expanded Media) at Hochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences
October 1, 2023 - May 31, 2025
Bachelor of Arts (Sound and Music Production) at Hochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences
October 1, 2017 - February 28, 2023

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services, Software & Internet
    Origin: A Journey Through Time

    This was my Master’s project. It included creating 45 mins of music (mostly orchestral), editing a film, and creating a technological setup to show said film in sync with the music in a church. All music, as well as the parts played by the church organ, was created by me. Additionally, I played the organ live in concert.
    The music consisted of a total of instrument tracks that needed production, mixing, and mastering.
    The full project was created in 3 months, two weeks for creating the full music,1.5 months to create the film, and 1 month for prototyping.

    Just a Different Flow

    In this project, my primary responsibility was creating the sound design as well as mixing and mastering the audio. Additionally, I produced remixes of the music at various points to ensure it followed the dramatic arc of the film. Every sound in this film is created by me. There was no initial camera audio.

    SAMUEL

    One of my all-time favorite projects by the great Olivia Nigl.
    I was responsible for the music. Since this was a time-critical project, the entire music was created in 2 days.

    Counterclock

    One of the first internationally successful films I was composing the music for.
    The film won a total of five international prizes, including the “LA Independent Women Film Award 2021”, as well as winning a prize at the “Cannes World Film Festival 2021”.
    One of the most unique parts of the music for this project was the usage of a church organ as the main instrument.

    Morgen irgendwo am Meer

    For this feature film, I created film music and was responsible for putting together a team of audio professionals to take care of the entire post-production of the film.
    The film drew more than 10,000 people into theaters around the world and won prestigious prizes, such as the “Winner Filmfest Bremen 2023”. Additionally, it received the “Prädikat besonders wertvoll” from the official German film and media rating agency.