Greg Lapinski is also a composer for feature films, short films, theatre productions, Polish Radio Theatre dramas, and audiobooks. In his work with image and text, the first question he asks is not “what music should I write?”, but rather “does this scene need music at all?”. If the answer is yes, the next step is to search for the purpose of its presence — not as illustration, but as an additional, invisible layer of meaning. Music can then become an emotional scenography: something that does not replicate what is visible, but reveals what remains hidden.
Selected Works
Two scenes from the Television Theatre production "Halo, halo, tu mówi Warszawa", which premiered on TVP1. The film portrays the beginning of World War II through the eyes of Polish Radio broadcasters.
A scene in which the radio directors evacuate to another city, while their staff decide to stay and continue broadcasting.
The musical concept was based on a contemporary sound inspired by the space of Polish Radio in 1939, with subtle tension beneath the dialogue and a layer of textures referring to the analogue materiality of radio.
A scene revealing the deserted interiors of the Polish Radio building after a night bombardment.
The musical layer intensifies the sense of abandonment, inner resistance to the reality on screen, and the hopelessness of the situation.
Full film available on VOD: https://vod.tvp.pl/teatr-telewizji,202/widok-z-mojego-balkonu,1696629
Two scenes from the Television Theatre film "Widok z Mojego Balkonu". The film tells a layered story of a family awaiting the return of their son from prison, portrayed through the perspectives of the mother, father, and sister.
Flashback to innocent childhood years seen through the sister’s perspective.
Music acts as a magnet for attention, drawing the viewer deeper into the emotional layer of the scene.
Final scene of the film.
Music builds tension between rebellion and refusal to accept reality, and a cognitive distortion that warps perception in order to make it more bearable.
The film "I Am Here" tells the story of searching for safety in a world where home is no longer a place of refuge.
It received a Special Award in the Short Film category at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (2020) and an Honorable Mention in the Feature category at the Opolskie Lamy Film Festival in Opole.
The music in the opening scene does not yet reveal the direction of the story.
It accompanies the protagonist, allowing the viewer to enter their perspective.
In the scene of the frightened boy’s escape and the search led by his older sister, the music introduces a sense of disorientation and rising tension.
In the second part, it gradually softens, easing the emotional conflict between the sister and the mother and allowing space for a temporary calm.
Selected compositions created for audiobook productions.
The first episode of the audio series Sprawa Rusałki is a crime story in which music helps shape a dark and unsettling atmosphere.
Alongside electric guitars and processed electronics, an unusual instrumentation based on recordings of branches, leaves, and natural textures evokes the forest environment surrounding Lake Rusałka.
Virga is an epilogue to a science fiction series set in a post-apocalyptic world after the third pandemic.
The music creates a futuristic yet devastated sonic landscape by combining electronics with elements of white singing and influences from ethnic music, forming an aural scenography for the story.
He is open to new collaborations in film, and theatre.