Beyond the noise

Wim Kock — also known by his earlier recording alias Vince Ladd — is a South African-born composer working in sync and production music for film, television, and advertising. He works under the umbrella Beyond The Noise.

Composing for over twenty-five years, Wim’s work is shaped by a life lived across continents — over twelve years spent in NYC, Norway, the UK, and China, alongside his South African roots. He’s now based in Mauritius, where that cross-cultural path continues to run through the music itself: a minimal Scandinavian sensibility layered with ancient traditional instruments from Africa and Asia.

Early in his career, under the alias Vince Ladd, Wim released two solo albums, Plastic Surgery and Pop Psychology, did sound design for artists Barbara Wildenboer and Theresa-Anne Mackintosh, and scored for film and television, with credits including Hard to Get, Daddy’s Girl, Agterplaas, and Mystify. His compositions also featured in international ad campaigns for Subaru, Tiger Beer, Nando’s, and Black & Decker, alongside remixes for Lindstrom (Norway) and Lifelike (France).

Ten years ago, Wim stepped back from the wider music industry to focus solely on writing for royalties and production music. Today, that work spans Nordic noir-inflected drone underscores and dark amapiano for crime television, atmospheric underscore and ambient guitar for documentaries and travel programming, etc. Released through Mamadance and available via Universal Records, Sonoton, etc.