Antfood Music & Sound Design

06/15/2026

Antfood was fired up to write an original track to celebrating the brand evolution of — the world’s most iconic chicken brand.

Our partners at truly built an expressive and flavorful universe centered around the iconic bucket. To bring it to life, Antfood’s composed this banger with on vocals. Finger Lickin’ Good.

06/11/2026

NYC! Join us at Index Chinatown on June 18 as Antfood traces the history of human creative expression from bone flutes to hemlines to AI.

📍 Index Space, Chinatown, NYC
🗓 June 18
🎟 Link in bio

06/11/2026

NYC! Are you coming out next Thursday? Ticket link in our bio!
Everything Is Waves Index , Thursday, June 18th

06/02/2026

Sound isn’t the last thing you add to a space. It’s the first thing people feel when they walk into one.

We hosted architects, strategists, experience designers, and neuroscientists in our New York studio to talk about exactly that. What happens when sound is designed into a space from the start, not bolted on at the end?

The conversation went places. Noisy restaurants that cut the perceived flavor of your food. Mercedes building bespoke soundscapes for electric vehicles that adjust in real time. The gap between what a space looks like and what it actually feels like and why sound is almost always the answer to that gap.

This is the work that doesn’t get talked about enough. Sonic experience design is architecture. It shapes attention, behavior, memory, and wellbeing, whether the people in the space know it or not.

Thank you to Steve Keller, Emilie Baltz, Léonard Roussel, and James Cathcart for bringing real depth to the conversation, and to SEGD New York for making it happen!

What was your favorite moment from the evening?

05/20/2026

In honor of the AMP Awards tonight, we are dredging up a controversial project we envisioned, composed and directed exactly two years ago.

When asked to create a cold open for the 2024 show, feeding off the buzz of generative AI music, we asked ourselves, “what if the AMP Awards had been cancelled?” And was replaced by the “Best Musics Awards”, the world’s first ceremony honoring exclusively non-human creations?

We wrote it. We directed it. We cast our colleagues. We gave an AI robot a more expressive face. Busta Bumps ran for president.

Some people loved it. Some people hated it. And responses ranged from “f*** the robots!!!!” to “I can’t wait to build with these tools.” Which is, in the end, what we were hoping for.

Two years later, with the AMP Awards back tonight, we keep coming back to the same feeling: the fear is real, and so is the excitement. Excited for the show tonight and Busta Bumps 4EVA!

https://antfood.com/work/amp-awards-2024

05/14/2026

05/08/2026

Our favorite kind of collaboration.
Honoring the Antfood moms who bring so much heart to our studios every day, and the little
ones who keep them (and us) inspired.
Happy Mother’s Day!

05/06/2026

Most brands sound like five different companies.
Not because nobody cares. Because there isn’t a system.

Visual identity has been systematized for fifty years. Typography rules, color hierarchies, motion guidelines — everything documented and governed. Meanwhile, someone exports a video with $800 stock music chosen on Friday afternoon before delivery.

Sonic identity is where visual was in 1970.
The brands you can hum — Apple, Netflix, McDonald’s — built systems, not moments. That’s the difference.

05/05/2026

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Let’s celebrate today with some beautiful music from Antfood’s interactive music calendar! Original compositions by our in-house team at Antfood, and beautiful cover art by 🌷

Every listen is a little different, so make sure to scrub through! Link in our story 🔗

04/09/2026

The Russi Hive is not your typical art gallery podcast.

Hosted by Alejandra Russi, it considers creativity from many different disciplines and lived perspectives. The show is “rooted in Ricco/Maresca’s 40+ year history of challenging hierarchies and blurring the boundaries between fine art and the vernacular,” expanding that same spirit into dialogue.

The brand ecosystem was already strong. Our role at Antfood was to extend it into sound.

We developed a sonic identity that mirrors the podcast’s expansive creative lens — interweaving piano and vocal layers inspired by 20th Century American composers. The result is anticipatory, luminous, and quietly ecstatic. Layered textures create a sense of internal momentum, and what Alejandra describes as “a feeling of energy gathering from within.”

Working in tandem with the talented team at , we ensured the sonic and visual systems move as one — giving The Russi Hive a cohesive identity across mediums.

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