In sanguine umbram! “Afterglow” (Thronum Immortalem) is Maffe’s most recent contribution to the Arknights game, and is perhaps his most ambitious track to date. The score features a full orchestra (Funk Studio Recording Orchestra, dir. Nathan Hofheins) and choir (dir. Dr. Jane Fjeldsted) in an epic musical...

Three years after the release of the sucessful short film, "Milk Teeth" (2020). Maffe teams up once again with visionary young filmmaker Felipe Vargas in a new short, "Thorn". This bite-sized horror film delivers a strong and concise scare wherein...

A brand new brass premiere shook the stage at the Biola University Conservatory of Music this evening. Maffe's latest concert piece, "Portrait in Brass" was commissioned by his friend Renee Yam, a graduating french horn major. The music harkens back to Maffe's "The Artisan," a sonic self portrait...

“The light has forsaken Elderym, and left us to face the darkness, but we do not stand alone.” In a recent collaboration between Hexany Audio and Immutable game developers, Sterling Maffe scores the newest trailer for Guild of Guardians, a a mobile RPG where players can turn their gaming passion...

The music of Arena of Valor, a multiplayer online battle arena, has had a long tradition of well-known and prestigious composers (Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Jeff Broadbent, Russell Brower, Matthew Carl Earl, Obadiah Brown-Beach, to name a few). With his recent contribution of map and battle music...

The newest collaboration between Sterling Maffe, Hexany Audio, and Hypergryph is a release titled "Chalice of Turbidity" (濁杯照影). It was originally used as battle music for the 2022 event, "Invitation to Wine," and was recently included on the most recent Official Soundtrack Album for Arknights by...

With the release of "Dagger Gang" last week. Sterling Maffe and Honor of Kings collaborate once again on a piece of epic, ethnic orchestra music for the celebration of Chinese New Year with a re-arrangement of the classic tune "Good Luck" (by Jianbo Qi). There are familiar faces in the orchestra as Funk Studios in...

Building on his previous work in adapting melodies from the classic Chinese story "Journey to the West" (having adapted "Zhu Bajie" last year), Maffe took on the challenge of arranging another theme for the blockbuster game "Honor of Kings". This time it was from the "Dagger Gang Overture" (by Yi Shang)...

Happy Lunar New Year! The newest collaboration between Sterling Maffe, Hexany Audio, and Hypergryph is a release titled "Honor to the Spring Mountain" (敬属春山). It was originally used as a lobby theme for the 2022 event, "Invitation to Wine," and was recently included on the most recent Official Soundtrack Album...