I compose original music for video - movies, television, animation, documentaries, brand films, ads, trailers, games and all forms of streaming content.

Short-format video a speciality.

Clients include: Chanel, Vans, Lush \\ HBO, BBC, Discovery.

Sound design / music / audio. Whatever serves the narrative.

Commercial commissioned by VANS sneakers. Composer: Meena Ysanne. Director: Joel Fox. Producer: Jennifer Jordan Day.
Film directed and animated by Jo Ratcliffe with an original soundtrack composed by Ysanne Spevack
Trailer for Woodstock Film Festival, which is one of the leading film festivals in the USA for animation. The trailer was animated by Joy and Noelle, a team of creatives, working with original still artwork from Riisa Boogie. All sound by Meena Ysanne, including sound design and original music.
Hand-animated commercial for NYC haute couture fashion brand, Toteme. Illustrations by Jo Ratcliffe. Sound design and original music by Meena Ysanne.
Trailer for independent drama. Directed by James Lawrence Eckhart. Starring Joelle Carter and Todd Stashwick.
Artist Doug Aitken transforms midtown Manhattan with seven monumental projections on the exterior facades of The Museum of Modern Art. Actors Donald Sutherland and Tilda Swinton, musicians Seu Jorge and Cat Power, and actor/street drummer Ryan Donowho star in the interlocking vignettes, visible from the street.
PSA commissioned for Scenic Hudson, a nonprofit based in upstate New York, featuring an original score by Meena Ysanne.

My first commission was Lonely Planet Guides in 1997, when it was the world’s most watched travel series.

So I’ve done this for a really long time. From action movie music to classical ambience, I deliver original soundtracks, written to picture, on budget, on time, at the highest quality.

As one of very few professional female composers - around 4% in 2020 in the US - I offer a fresh perspective. It’s generally agreed that women are more likely to be in touch with their emotions. Music is all about emotions, and film soundtracks steer the emotional content of the narrative. That’s what film music does.

Always been mystified why 96% of composers are male, with this in mind. Don’t get it.

Documentary Sound Design & Original Music:

Scenic Hudson and select partners TBA

  • Vocal Locals - doc series commissioned by Scenic Hudson

  • Parks - doc series by award-winning environmental DP, Jon Bowermaster

Ad music for:

  • Mars Inc - series of online commercials, 2021

  • Vans - commercial, 2020

  • Chanel - commercial for the 'Gabrielle' handbag, 2018

  • Scenic Hudson - mask PSA, 2020 / series of 10 x 2 min promos, 2021

Orchestral strings for:

  • Fame Academy - BBC prime-time reality TV series

  • Sleepwalkers - MoMA commissioned film featuring Tilda Swinton, Cat Power, and Donald Sutherland, directed by Doug Aitken

  • Chrysalis - Ray Bradbury's final feature film

  • Saboteur - cinematic trailer for Pandemic games

  • Big Love - HBO TV series, assisting composer Anton Sanko

  • A World of Conflict - Mini-doc for Yahoo, assisting composer Damian Wagner

Original scores for:

  • To Be Friends - feature film produced by Aaron Eckhart and directed by his brother, James Eckhart, with Meena’s original score

  • The Owls - feature film created by an all-female cast and crew, with Meena’s original score.

  • Globetrekker Lonely Planet Guide - the world's most watched travel TV series, on Discovery in the US with Meena’s original score

  • Crime Team - 12-part prime-time TV series created by Channel 4 UK, with Meena’s original score

Featured original music for:

After our world suffers severe ravages brought on by humankind, an isolated group of scientists search for new ways to sustain life. When one of them falls ill and a chrysalis forms around him, a tug of war ensues about the future of the stricken scientist... and ultimately the fate of the Earth.
Here's a teaser trailer for Saboteur by Pandemic for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360
THE OWLS a film by THE PARLIAMENT FILM COLLECTIVE with Guinevere Turner, Lisa Gornick, Skyler Cooper, V.S. Brodie, Cheryl Dunye, Deak Evgenikos / Directed by Cheryl Dunye / Produced & Production Designed by Candi Guterres / Produced by Ernesto M.
Part 01 / 04 The Rock 'n' Roll Cobbler, Terry de Havilland, discovers he's back in fashion when major fashion label Miu Miu copies one of his 1973 designs, promoting it internationally with product placement in everything from Sex in the City to Madonna's Hollywood video and GAP commercial.