Oarsmarket
The Thief
Music worldbuilding for storytellers
Give your
world a sound.
363+ royalty-free fantasy tracks, custom scores, and musical worldbuilding for stories that need a voice of their own.
363tracks
Royalty-free library
223 free with email
53albums
Original soundtracks
8years
Writing for storytellers
games · films · TTRPGs
1,400+ patrons
In the community
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Hear the library.
A few tracks to start with — free to stream, right here. 363 more waiting in the songbook.
Proof in practice
Worlds I've helped find their sound.
A few projects where the music was built around story logic — cultures, characters, places — not laid on top of it like a wash.
Eight of many
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Original soundtrack
Dinosauria
Film-history scoring techniques, live cello, and a long collaboration with director David Armsby across three feature-length episodes.
Read the case study →Worldbuilding
Rise of the Runelords
Fourteen musical themes built from Pathfinder's seven virtues and seven sins — the narrative logic of the adventure path becomes the structure of the score.
Read the case study →Original soundtrack
Shepherds of Haven
Character themes, faction identities, and orchestral worldbuilding for a long-running dark fantasy game — each motif written to belong to someone before it belongs to a scene.
Read the case study →Original soundtrack
Sauria
A prehistoric sound world shaped around fictional cultures — ritual instruments, solitude, and survival music for David Armsby’s animated film series.
Read the case study →Worldbuilding
Primarch
Celtic instruments, modular synths, and orchestral colours fused into the sonic identity of an alien-but-familiar game world. A study in two musical traditions inhabiting the same room.
Read the case study →Worldbuilding
Honorable Orcs
A Pathfinder collaboration that treats orcs as a noble, communal, complex culture — and writes a music to match. The hardest part wasn't the notes, it was the assumptions.
Read the case study →Worldbuilding
Bloodpunk
A Victorian, blood-fuelled dystopia for Dream Realm Storytellers — two tyrannical cities given opposed sonic identities from one string palette, held together by a faction leitmotif system.
Read the case study →Worldbuilding
Svilland
Scoring a Norse mythology rather than a scene — tagelharpa, frame drums, and deliberate restraint for a gritty low-fantasy 5E setting where instrument choice does the worldbuilding.
Read the case study →Three ways to work with me
Pick the one that fits the work.
Whether you need a track for tonight, a year of monthly access, or a custom score written around your story — the same library, three doors.
Path 01 · most commonLibrary
Use the Songbook.
For DMs, streamers, podcasters, video creators, and indie devs.
- 363+ royalty-free tracks, browsable by scene
- 223 free with an email — instantly
- Patreon ($5/mo) unlocks the full library
- Lifetime Bundle makes it yours forever
- Use in streams, videos, games and client work
From $0 — $120 · royalty-free, perpetual
Open the Songbook →Path 02 · bespokeCommission
A score written for your world.
For filmmakers, game studios, podcast producers, ad agencies, and TTRPG publishers.
- Original themes for characters, cultures, places
- Live players where the budget allows
- Stems, alt mixes and integration-ready formats
- 8 years collaborating across film, games & TTRPGs
By application · tailored to scope
Start a project →Path 03 · the patronsSupport
Fund what comes next.
For fans, regular Patreon listeners, and people who love the music for its own sake.
- Patreon: stems, demos, monthly tracks
- Discord access & behind-the-scenes notes
- Listen on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music
- 1,400+ patrons in the community
From $5/mo · cancel any time
Join on Patreon →Open studio
Currently on the desk.
An open log of what's being scored right now. Updated as sessions wrap and stems land. Subscribers see the bars move first.
Hand-written
Human
Craft
Craft
Ivan Duch · 2018
Composing for storytellers since 2018 · learning music since age six.
Human music writing
Hand-written music gives your world intention.
Every track is composed by hand. Themes are shaped around emotion and narrative function — not stitched from generic mood filler or algorithmic library padding.
Whenever the budget allows, I record live players. The rest of the time I record and perform virtual instruments myself, keeping the writing and production human from the first idea to the final master. A few honest notes on AI and my work.
"Deliberate music made to support scenes — characters, places, stories — not laid over them."
On all platforms
Just want to listen?
Most of the catalogue lives on Bandcamp first. Spotify and Apple Music carry the released albums; Patreon carries everything in between. No matter where you press play, it's the same music.