Namak
Composer and sound designer on an independent Marathi feature.
Official Selection, 2 international independent film festivals
Music producer · Composer · Sound designer · Mumbai
Kabir Fernandes
Six years scoring ad films and independent films, designing sonic identities and releasing original music — now past 4.6M streams.
- 85+ad films and digital spots scored
- 2 + 5independent features and short films
- 4.6Mstreams on original releases
- 48Mviews for a 6-film monsoon campaign
Selected credits
Films, campaigns and a sonic logo
Scores and sound design for independent cinema, ad films and a digital payments brand.
Kinara
Original score for an independent Konkani and Hindi feature.
Best Original Score nominee, a national independent film awards
Paani Kam Hai
Sound design for a short film.
Best Sound, a Mumbai short film festival
Monsoon campaign
Scored a six-film monsoon campaign for a fashion e-commerce platform.
48M views across video platforms
Digital payments app
A sonic logo and sound palette for a digital payments app.
Used across 14 campaign films and in-app notifications
Festive jewellery film
Composed the music for a festive jewellery ad film released for Diwali.
22M views
Case study
A sound for a payments app
Sonic identity work from Low Tide Sound, his independent Mumbai studio.
One sonic logo, 14 campaign films
Brief
Give a digital payments app a sound of its own, for its campaigns and inside the product.
Approach
Composed a sonic logo and built a wider sound palette around it.
Outcome
The logo and palette run across 14 campaign films and the app's in-app notifications.
Original releases
His own music
- “Salt & Static” — EP, 5 tracks, released independently · 40+ editorial and listener playlists2.1M streams · 2024
- “Mahim Nights” — single · licensed for an episode of a streaming web series1.8M streams · 2023
- “Varsha” — single, with a Hindustani classical vocalist700K streams · 2025
A music producer, composer and sound designer for ad films, independent cinema and his own releases.
Kabir founded Low Tide Sound, an independent audio studio in Mumbai, where he writes and produces music for D2C, fintech, auto and packaged-food brands — typically five to seven days from brief to final mix — and scores independent features and shorts with a pool of 20+ session musicians. He trained in sound recording and sound design at FTII, Pune, and before his own studio spent 18 months producing jingles and ad tracks at Harbour Lane Audio.
- Based inMumbai, Maharashtra
- StudioLow Tide Sound
- DeliversStereo and 5.1 mixes
- Works inHindi, Marathi, Konkani, English
- TrainingFTII, Pune
Studio & tools
In the room
Experience
From jingles to his own studio
- Apr 2022 — Now
Founder, Composer & Sound Designer
Low Tide Sound, Mumbai
85+ ad films and digital spots; a sonic identity for a digital payments app; scores and sound design for 2 independent features and 5 short films.
- Sep 2020 — Mar 2022
Assistant Music Producer & Sound Designer
Harbour Lane Audio, Mumbai
Produced, arranged and mixed 140+ jingles and ad tracks in four languages; built a 3,200+ sound house library; sound-designed 30+ animated explainers.
- 2017 — 2020
PG Diploma, Sound Recording & Sound Design
Film and Television Institute of India, Pune
Diploma film sound design selected for the institute's annual showcase.
- 2014 — 2017
B.A., Economics
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
Undergraduate degree, completed before the FTII diploma.
Contact
Need a score?
kabir.fernandes@email.com
- +91 98195 27460
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- kabir.studio
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