The Cut is the production duo of Nathan Swedlow and Cory Todd. Together, they possess a rich suite of tools that enable them to move music through every stage of development, from ideation to fully mastered recordings. Their music lives at the intersection of acoustic and electronic, weaving traditional orchestration and instrumentation with sound design, synthesis, and experimental production.
Few studios offer traditional notation, orchestration, and arranging alongside sound design, synthesis, mixing, mastering, and full production under one roof. That range means a project can move fluidly across disciplines without losing continuity of vision.
Where many producers impose their own aesthetic on a collaborator's work, The Cut takes the opposite approach, working closely with artists to ensure that preservation of intent threads through every stage of the process, transforming ideas into something fully realized.
Whether you are a filmmaker, musician, multimedia artist, or beyond, The Cut provides original composition, arrangement of existing works, and full-scale production for film, television, music and multimedia, delivering music built for sync and scoring.
Nathan Swedlow is a composer, arranger, orchestrator, bassist, and multi-instrumentalist whose work is rooted in the architecture of music, how sounds are built, voiced, and realized. Based in the Bay Area, he works across concert music, screen scoring, and experimental sound, with fluency in the language of notation, production and the tools of the studio.
Cory Todd is an artist & engineer based in the Bay Area, California. Projects have included collaborations and releases in a multitude of settings and genres, from film & video game scoring to extensive studio work. With a focus on both clientele and personal creative output, he works from concept to completion in an artist-forward process.