Musician, producer, and composer Tiff Randol embarked on her formal career path at NYU where she studied classical voice performance. But she soon found that she had a talent for tinkering with audio, changed her major, and began to expand her repertoire. She interned with Philip Glass at his Looking Glass Studios and went on to compose for film and TV, notably Showtime’s Work in Progress and for both The CW’s Arrow and The Flash. In 2019, following the birth of her child, she established Mamas in Music, a community for—as the name suggests—mothers in music. It now has more than 500 members worldwide.
What Randol loves most about music and composing is that it helps her to communicate her feelings and otherwise express herself. “Music and art is where I’ve always felt safest,” she explains. “When I’m in this flow space and environment, it wraps me with webs and layers of sound and colors that enables me to express myself and feel fulfilled and emotionally connected in ways that only music can do.”
Following the birth of her child in 2018, Randol sensed isolation from the music scene and went in search of community. She didn’t find exactly what she needed so she launched Mamas in Music. “I’d just wrapped several projects and my management team went a different route,” she recollects. “Having a child is a big transition and figuring out where to go in an industry that generally isn’t super friendly towards that transition was hard... I connected with my co-founder Mary Leay in the U.K. and we started to choose what we wanted, needed, and what the organization would look like.”
Randol segued into TV and film composition in a way that was at once indirect yet also fortuitous. “I’d done commercials and little cues,” she recalls. “I was doing a 360 Fulldome show when I mixed sound score with songs. That was how I discovered that I enjoyed working that way. When I first started out, I loved capturing sounds and effects. But I moved away from that for a while and focused more on songwriting and performing.”
Recently she completed a record for BMG and now aims to drop a single a month for the near term. Indeed, her latest song “Free”—a remix of her “Holy Now,” recorded under her pseudonym IAMEVE—was released on June 20, the day after Music Connection spoke with her. Among her favorite anecdotes is the time that she worked at Looking Glass Studios, David Bowie had been in and she got to savor the lyric sheets and other such pieces of studio candy.
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