With a unique sonic language that synthesizes the worlds of classical chamber music with textural, modular electronics, acclaimed contemporary ambient and cinematic producer Simon Goff stands out with his broad conceptual soundscapes and deeply evocative work. A Grammy Award-winner, the classically trained British musician, now based in Berlin, has collaborated with the likes of Hildur Guðnadóttir, Tara Nome Doyle and Jóhann Jóhannsson, as well as having provided the score for the BAFTA-nominated TV series The Gold, and contributed to the Grammy-winning scores for Chernobyl and Joker. 

With his third solo album ‘Interior Realms – Vol. I,’ the violinist further strengthens his progressive orchestral sound. With an aesthetic rooted in contextual minimalism, parallel phasing, and pioneering, modular sound design, the album transcends musical ideologies into reflective moments of atmospheric ambiance, rooted in the human experience. Recorded across four architecturally distinct spaces, including a Berlin cistern and church, and a wartime sound mirror on the English coast, Goff seeks to explore music as a space both physically shared and internally experienced, transforming rigid architecture into a living, breathing instrument. 

“The album is a philosophical inquiry into music as space – spaces we physically occupy and share with others, but also spaces that occupy us internally. Every location on the record was chosen because it has a distinct acoustic identity. The recording techniques, including binaural, exist to serve that idea: capturing not just the music but the room itself as part of the composition. The central question: How do the spaces we inhabit affect us – and where does the boundary between inner and outer experience actually lie?” says Goff.  

Building a sonic, immersive experience that’s centered around ideological premises established by the early New York downtown avant-garde scene, and the likes of Steve Reich, and Terry Riley, Goff toys with phasing and loops, making use of spatial, dynamic, and natural reverb. Using a binaural microphone, live orchestral musicians and modular synthesizers, ‘Interior Realms’ uses space as an instrument and asks the listener to journey inside themself to realise the music. Expanding on his love for chamber music, the record interplays modular and sounds and questions how music exists within our living environment. Goff’s work further connects the listener through music and begs further questions about our relationship with space and ourselves. “It’s something that I am searching for in my own music, creating a space that not only allows people to have their own experience within, but to also have a collective experience at the same time,” he adds. 

A conceptual album of atmospherics, space creates an added layer of instrumentation. It’s an organic, spatial audio recording that goes beyond being just an immersive, 3D recording. The end result features no digital delay, presets, or post-recording modifications. The concept of space is captured in its truest form, creating moving motifs and sweeping soundscapes, providing deeper emotional form to the spaces in which we inhabit, allowing us to interpret the space inside and out. “For me, it's about using these techniques as ways to invite people to come on their own journey, to explore both the spaces that I recorded in and the spaces that the music takes them to inside of themselves.”

Goff released his critically acclaimed debut solo album ‘Vale’ in 2021, closely followed by ‘Spark Like Living Mothers’ in 2023. Both releases reflect Goff’s broader artistic interest in expanding the sonic capabilities of the violin and challenging traditional genre boundaries. He has performed at leading international venues and festivals including the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Union Chapel in London, Funkhaus Berlin, and CTM Festival.  

In parallel with his solo career, Goff has established himself as an accomplished composer for film and television. His score for the 2023, BAFTA nominated TV series The Gold (BBC/Paramount+), received critical acclaim. The same year, his score for the Czech feature We Have Never Been Modern was nominated for Best Score at the Czech Lion Awards, and he went on to compose for the 2024 film, Waves (Vlny), which was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and saw him collaborate with the Czech National Radio Orchestra. Goff also wrote the score for Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, released this summer.