The World of The Music Detective
The music business generates billions every year — the kind of money people will cheat, lie and kill for. This is Emma Kord’s world. An expert in music forensics, she doesn’t just listen for clues — she sees them: sonic fingerprints, strands of musical DNA. But her gift is also her curse. Enveloped by synaesthesia, she relies on pills to mute the symphony in her mind, walking a constant tightrope between brilliance and disaster.
The Sonic Experience
The Music Detective uses the intimacy of audio drama to place listeners inside Emma’s neurodiverse mind. The way she hears the world, we do too — through sound design that represents her synaesthesia. Binaural recording and spatial mixing in Dolby Atmos immerse us in three dimensions — the click of a cassette, the echo of a rehearsal room, the swell of applause. Original composition threads through the series, from fragments of Childhood to the haunting piano phrases that unlock Emma’s memories. The result is a dramatic experience where sound itself becomes a protagonist.
Music and Science
In a music business awash with human and AI plagiarism, forensic musicologists are in high demand. Like their counterparts in the lab, these “music detectives” use science to crack cases — alongside expertly trained ears and a vast musical memory. On their beat, the smoking gun is a manuscript or a master tape: proof beyond doubt of when a piece was created and who wrote it. But when multiple sources lay claim to the original, the stakes are high — fortunes and reputations can be won or lost.