Zazie Kanwar-Torge
Asheville,United States
Summary
Experimental composer, producer, multimedia artist, and creative strategist known as Zazie Productions. Strong record of independent releases and cross-media projects. Experienced in playlist curation, digital distribution, and building niche audiences through social media platforms with substantial reach and engagement. Recognized for early prodigy-level abilities and innovative approaches to sound design, film scoring, and experimental composition. Young, adaptive, and skilled at leveraging both creative output and online influence to connect with diverse audiences and collaborators.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Independent Playlist Curator
Freelance
- Curator of one of the top Goa Trance playlists in North America (31K+ organic followers); known for spotlighting cutting-edge psytrance, psy-tech, and ambient-trance artists.
- Has gotten over 10k streams to emerging independent artists from 2022 to 2024.
- Active reviewer on Groover, PlaylistPush, and SoundCampaign, offering musically literate, track-specific feedback that blends compositional analysis with playlist viability.
- Managed all phases of production in 4 months: artist outreach and communication across time zones, metadata tracking, mastering coordination, track ordering, and visual design.
Social Media Influencer / Mental Health Advocate
- Forecasting viral trends across Instagram and other platforms to optimize content relevance.
- He has 28k followers, 10M monthly views, and a dedicated following on his mental health satire page via a viral meme format (targeted towards Gen Z demographic).
- Mapping emotional triggers to increase engagement rates through targeted microcontent.
- Optimizing content deployment schedules for peak algorithmic visibility.
- Designing high-retention captions to maximize post saves and shares.
- Engineering organic community growth without paid advertising.
- Conducting rapid A/B testing of narrative tones to predict virality potential.
- Repurposing content efficiently across multiple platforms without redundancy.
- Leveraging deep analytics to refine audience targeting and content strategy monthly.
- Developing adaptive brand voices that resonate with young audiences.
- Designs high-conversion visual content using Canva and Pixlr — tailors visuals to platform-specific engagement logic (memes, flyers, posters, graphic design).
Founder, Label Owner
The Vanishing Point Syndicate
01.2025 - Current
- Produced and released Dissonance Index Vol. 1, a 105-track international compilation.
- Managed artist outreach, metadata tracking, mastering coordination, and visual design.
- Promoted the release across Bandcamp, Discord, and underground music communities. Spearheaded the production of Dissonance Index Vol. 1, resulting in increased international visibility and engagement within the music community.
- Developed a streamlined process for artist outreach and metadata tracking, enhancing overall project efficiency and improving collaboration.
- Analyzed community feedback from various platforms to refine promotional strategies, leading to noticeable growth in listener engagement.
- Cultivated a positive team environment, encouraging creativity and innovation among collaborators to drive project success.
- Managed all phases of production in 4 months: artist outreach and communication across time zones, metadata tracking, mastering coordination, track ordering, and visual design.
- Constructs strategic publicity materials — writes press kits, artist one-sheets, and pitch emails optimized for curators, journalists, and collaborators.
Music Producer / Composer
Zazie Productions
01.2017 - Current
- Breaks down full mixes by ear in real time — pinpointing layers, FX chains, synth patches, and arrangement details.
- Self-producing since age 9; fluent in Logic Pro X, GarageBand, MIDI instrumentation, and hybrid acoustic/electronic workflows.
- Creates across genres — from ambient horror to experimental hip hop and cinematic scoring — with the ability to match, blend, or reinvent styles as needed.
- Delivers polished, multi-layered mixes optimized for both headphone detail and speaker impact.
- Skilled in sampling, looping, and turning unconventional sounds into tight, memorable hooks and textures.
- Composes with narrative and visual context in mind, scoring for mood, movement, and audience experience.
- Can produce quick-turnaround cues while maintaining high production quality.
- Crafted intricate soundscapes that enhanced storytelling in projects, resulting in elevated audience engagement and positive feedback.
- Collaborated with artists to refine compositions, ensuring alignment with their vision and resulting in enriched final products.
Skills
- Music Production (Expert), Audience targeting (Experienced), Visual content design, Public image management (Experienced), Self-production, Genre emulation (Expert), Sampling and looping (Expert), Conceptual sound integration, Playlist curation, Music industry influence (Experienced), Music licensing, Graphic Art, Creative strategy (Expert), Playlist curation (Expert), Sound art (Expert), Film Composer (Experienced), Social Media Influence (Experienced), Creative Writing, Digital Promotion, Artistic Direction (Experienced), Innovation Strategy, Research (Expert), Sound Design (Skillful), Music Arrangement (Expert), Content Strategy, Audience Engagement, Project Management, Audio Editing
Interests
Music Production, Playlist Curation, Digital Marketing, Multidisciplinary Art, Filmmaking, Social Media Marketing, Meme Creation, Sound Design
AWARDS AND HONORS
Special Jury Mention – Pebbles Underground Film Festival (2024), Official Selection – Octopus Marquee Underground Film Festival, Exclusive Stream – PVTV Fringe Flicks, Special Mention for Artistic Contribution – Kvikmyndalistahatíð Íslands, Reykjavik (2024), Pulitzer Center Finalist – Local Letters for Global Change (2021), Black Mountain College Radio Art Award (2021)
Affiliations
- Member – Musicians United for Social Equity (MUSE)
- Registered Artist – Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
- Mini Film - Brand Ambassador
MEDIA FEATURES & COVERAGE
- Black Mountain College Podcast – Interview
- Album of The Year – Feature
- 1000Subtexts Literary Magazine – Publication
- Who is the Dreamer? – A Tribute to David Lynch – Compilation Feature
- Featured in Ranger Magazine, Superpresent Magazine, Life in Limbo Magazine, Maude Literary Journal for Bipolar Creatives, Bladecatcher Recordings, Thirteenth Quarterly Report of Argali Records, HARSH NOISE CORPUS Vol.4, Ghost Nun Records
- Received critical praise from David Finkelstein (Film Threat, Film International)
- Voidstar Productions’ Solidarity [complete] – ACLU Benefit Compilation
- Black Noise Magazine (2025) – Upcoming Interview & Artist Feature
- Featured alongside KMFDm, Ecc Shnak, and Beauty in Chaos
- Radio: 103.3 Asheville FM, Glacier FM, Indie AM, Five Steps From The Fringe (Podcast)
- Print: HEAVY Magazine, Radiolick Digital, Pop Phantasma, Breaking Hits
- Exhibition: Ripples Gallery, New Media Art Space
LINKS
IMDb Profile: www.imdb.com, LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com, Bandcamp : zazieproductions.bandcamp.com, Spotify : open.spotify.com, Film Freeway : filmfreeway.com
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- MUSIC DISCOGRAPHY Albums
- Sellotape (2020)
- Constrained Capacity (2022)
- To Halt Space Adrift (2023)
- Vermiform (2023)
- A Long Way To Nowhere (2023)
- Greetings From Tinsel Time (2023)
- Stutter to Stammer (Super Deluxe Edition) (2024)
- Greetings From Tinsel Time (Super Deluxe Edition) (2024)
- MUSIC DISCOGRAPHY EPs and Singles
- Stutter to Stammer (2020)
- Interference Archive 01010101 (2022)
- Well Meaning Neurotypicals (2022)
- Anything Can Happen On an Electric Day (2022)
- The Triangular Savant (2022)
- Distant Bells for Surgical Minds (2023)
- Miraculously Unhurt (2023)
- Spectral Ode to Synesthesia (2025)
- FILMOGRAPHY
- Phantom Requiem (2024) – Director, Producer, Animator, Composer, Sound Designer
- Deaf Orphans of Streamcast (2024) – Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Visual Effects Artist
- Beyond The Silken Threads (2025) – Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Visual Effects Artist
- MIKE HAS A VISITOR (2025) - Composer, credited on IMDb
- The Haunted (2025) - Composer, credited on IMDb
SOFT SKILLS & PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Deeply imaginative, introspective, witty, and thoughtful
- High media literacy with platform-specific fluency
- Adaptive communicator: poetic, academic, technical, and satirical tones
- Culturally sensitive and trauma-informed, with an intuitive respect for mental health, gender identity, race, age, and lived experience
- Balances creative intensity with a grounded, non-cynical sense of humor and warm playfulness
- Conflict-averse, respectful of team boundaries, and assertive
- Holds near-encyclopedic knowledge of obscure music subgenres; delivers highly personalized recommendations from 1970s Thai psychedelia to Mongolian bubblegum bass.
- Nuanced understanding of experimental art movements (Fluxus, Dadaism, hauntology, surrealism, discordianism)
- Owns artistic voice across modalities — whether it’s sound, video, text, or visual design, maintains an unmistakable fingerprint.
- Thinks recursively — loops through ideas across time and structure to evolve raw impressions into multidimensional content.
- Invents internally consistent worlds — builds conceptual ecosystems where aesthetics, tone, and logic are aligned across multiple media.
- Compulsively avoids derivative work; driven to produce never-before-seen formats, sounds, and innovative visions—often by fusing unlikely genres, methods, or tools
- Rapid Content Generator — Able to produce high-volume, high-quality multimedia content in a short period—often self-directed, self-edited, and immediately publish-ready.
INTERNSHIPS
- VOLUNTEER
- 103.3 Asheville FM
- Jan 2020 - Jun 2024
- Asheville, North Carolina
- Shadowed and guest-co-hosted on multiple acclaimed programs, including Loose Fit and Ecstatic Listening, gaining hands-on experience in live radio production and audience engagement.
- Interviewed local and touring artists, including the band Shutterings, for broadcast segments.
- Completed training in FCC broadcast compliance, on-air conduct, and station protocols.
- Represented the station at community events such as Grail Movie House’s Music Documentary Night and Asheville Pride, managing tabling, public outreach, and promotional activities.
- Attended and contributed to station meetings, volunteer panels, and programming discussions to support content development and community initiatives.
COURSES
- CANVA FOR WORK CERTIFICATE
- Canva
- Jul 2025
- DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGY
- Skillup Online
- NEGOTIATION MASTERY
- Harvard University
Timeline
Founder, Label Owner
The Vanishing Point Syndicate
01.2025 - Current
Music Producer / Composer
Zazie Productions
01.2017 - Current
Independent Playlist Curator
Freelance