I'm beyond excited to be nominated alongside the other talented composers at Hexany Audio for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for our collaboration on the “Arknights: Ambience Synesthesia” live concert! Among the featured music in this concert are two tracks of mine. The concert opener...

New soundtrack release! About a year ago, Zac Villanueva graciously invited me to score his film “Late”, about a soon-to-be father who desperately fights to protect his family after an affair places him in the center of a murder investigation. The score needed to be dark, intimate, and personal...

We just released a brand new film! SwiftyMart is an ambitious short film comedy that shows the wildly different perspectives of two supermarket shoppers, one who sees the world through rose-colored lenses, and one who is living in a perpetual nightmare. The story begins as the two of them meet, and...

I’m honored to have written the lobby music for the Honor of Kings 2023 Asian Games! Comparable to the Olympics, the Asian games are held every four years and have recently expanded their competition to Esports. This years games, held in Hangzhou, China, feature the first appearance of "Honor of...

After racking up 500,000 views and counting on Instagram, "The Most Beautiful Sound" reel, part of Maffe's composition secrets series, has been released in a full version on all streaming platforms. The original video opens with "this might be the most beautiful sound in music." Maffe then goes on to explain the...

The third collaboration between composer Sterling Maffe and Evan Richards (prev. "There's a Monster Behind You" and "Two People One Ring"), psychological thriller "Cognitive" screened to a packed audience at the Valley Film Festival in North Hollywood. The feature film stars Rachel Fleischer, who...

Ilan Morgenstern, Principal Bass Trombonist at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Sterling Maffe go back years! In 2015, the two collaborated on the recording of Maffe's award winning piece "Aficionado". The two reconnect after nearly a decade to produce a new composition titled "Little Pictures for Bass...

Maffe continues to expand his career, this time dipping his toes into the internet personality/influencer realm by launching a new short video series his approach to composing for film and video games. This content aims to bring viewers behind the scenes into Maffe's process in a way that is digestible to all...

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...

"This is like musical theater meets art song, meets opera, meets classical music, this is very, very interesting." Marco Meatball is a popular YouTuber known for his opera singing and voice acting. He frequently reacts to video game music and recently took a dive into Sterling Maffe's "Wrathful Cerulean...

Apex Legends is a popular video game that has been a key player in the battle royale genre since it was first released in 2019. Its popularity has only grown since then, and with the recent release of the mobile version, it has become even more accessible to players. Sterling Maffe has worked with...

"Forge your own legacy in a limitless universe." Maffe's newest collaboration with Hexany Audio is a track for the acclaimed sci-fi MMO game, "EVE Echoes". This music for the fast-paced spaceship battle game takes a twist on the traditional orchestral approach of sci-fi music..