Featured Music

As part of our mission to include diverse voices in our scholarship, SMT-Pod aims to showcase a variety of music in our podcast. We encourage SMT members and non-members alike to submit their compositions for both theme and bumper music. All music will be credited verbally on the episode and in writing here.

Call for Music

SMT-Pod invites music makers to submit recordings for theme music and transitional (bumper) music for the upcoming season of the podcast. See more info here.

Featured Musicians

Theme music composer bios appear below. Visit our season pages to read more about composers and performers featured in each season's episodes:

Compositions were submitted as part of a Call for Compositions (see archived call below). Theme and closing music were selected from the submissions by a panel of judges consisting of the members of the Editorial Board. Bumper/transitional music is chosen on an as-needed basis from the corpus of submissions.

Credits for individual episodes can also be seen on our Episode Archive pages.

Theme Composer Biographies

SMT-Pod Theme Music Composer: Zhangcheng Lu

Run Up Studio Website
Piece Title: "BGM Scales"

Uen. L is a multi-talented musician. Piano player with many years of experience and a passion for improvisation. On the rise as a composer, arranger, mixer and established multi-instrumentalist. He created his own band in 2018. He experimented with various styles of music and later developed a passion for ACG music. Due to his love for anime, creativity, and jazz. Now he is working as a music producer and mixer at Run Up Studio, creating music for ACG & OST.

SMT-Pod Closing Theme Composer: David Voss

Composer Website's
Piece Title: "hnna"

David Voss is an award-winning composer who the Pi Kappa Lambda Composition Award described as “a composer…whose artistic concepts are complex and multi-faceted.” He was a finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the Sarasota Orchestra EarShot residency. His works have been performed all over the country and have been recorded by such ensembles as Yarn/Wire and Singer Pur. He attended the Atlantic Music Festival, Nief-Norf Summer Festival, and the Fresh Inc Festival, where he worked with a number of respected composers, including Anna Thorvaldsdottir, David Ludwig, Hannah Lash, and Ken Ueno, to name a few. He has been commissioned by individuals and arts organizations like the International Double Reed Society and continues to enjoy writing music for his friends.

He graduated with his Master of Arts in composition from Stony Brook University, where he worked with Perry Goldstein and Daria Semegen, and received his Bachelor of Music in music theory/composition from Lawrence University, studying with Asha Srinivasan and Joanne Metcalf.