Cue the music and close your eyes, it’s hard to believe that this lush, moving score doesn’t have a movie to go with it. But that’s all right with Adam Young. This month, Young officially launches his new “film soundtrack” project with “Apollo 11: One Giant Leap for Mankind.”

“For the past seven or eight years, I’ve done my main career project called Owl City, and of course that project’s very much pop-oriented and actual songwriting. But something not a lot of people know about me is I’ve always been interested in film music and soundtracks since a young age,” Young said. “I had this interest for all these years and never really had an outlet for it until the end of last year when I was looking ahead at 2016 and the stars aligned.”

Young has been successful with Owl City, making the Billboard music charts and seeing his songs used in commercials, as well as films like Dreamworks’ “The Croods” and “Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Ga’Hoole.” His song, “When Can I See You Again?” from the Disney film, “Wreck-It Ralph,” is featured in Disneyland’s Main Street Electrical Parade, “Paint the Night.”

Young is not only a singer, musician and songwriter, he also is a mixer, engineer and producer who has worked with a number of artists in a range of genres, including singer/songwriters John Mayer and Lights, Christian rockers Jars of Clay, Orange County rockers Something Corporate and rapper Outasight.

For his new endeavor, Young will select a different historical event each month and then write, record and release a complete conceptual film score based on it and how he relates to it. Each album will be available for download or simply to listen to for free at www.ayoungscores.com, as well as on several music platforms, including Apple Music and Spotify.

“It really is a great challenge,” Young said. “I just love the idea of thinking I have to come up with 10-12 pieces of music for an album every month and what are those 12 slots going to be, what types of moods and vibes and aesthetics need to be in each score to fit the mood of the story, to help push that story along.”

This project features instrumentals only, and even though there isn’t a film, there still will be a visual component in the way of a limited-edition movie poster created by Los Angeles artist James R. Eads. Each poster will be signed and numbered by both Young and Eads and available for purchase at Young’s website.

“James is really, really easy to work with and he gets it. I don’t have to work very hard to explain to him the imagery or the feeling of the art. I just say, ‘James, go do your thing,’” Young said.

Eads has a background in painting and printmaking and works primarily creating posters for musicians’ shows and albums (often called “gig art”). He is also the creator of the popular Prisma Vision Tarot deck. He describes his work as modern impressionism based on movement, color and strokes.

For the first poster, “Apollo 11: One Giant Leap for Mankind,” Eads chatted briefly with Young, who didn’t give him a lot of direction other than a couple of reference images that inspired him while creating the soundtrack. Then Eads listened to the album and set to work.

“He gave me a lot of freedom which is always a great thing to have because I think sometimes too much direction can weigh me down. He appreciated my style and trusted that I would create something that would fit the mood correctly,” Eads said.

“One of the things that I was most excited about is that is was an ongoing 12-month project and I think looking back it’s going to be really cool to see. I’m hoping all the prints will be all the same size, same kind of paper, printing technique so that they will work as a suite, but they will also show a progression and change throughout the year as we both develop as artists,” Eads said.

Like Young, Eads has done a lot of his own promotion and marketing and credits much of his success to the Web.

“I wouldn’t be where I am without the Internet,” Eads said. “Like the gig poster scene, there’s a lot of websites that are dedicated to collectors of poster art. That gives me a whole new group of people and exposure that I wouldn’t normally get. When I do art print releases, I release the information on my social media and that’s how people find out about it. Social media is a huge aspect for me because a lot of people who collect my work I’ve never met and are in different countries and different states and I don’t think that they would have that accessibility without the Internet.”

Young agrees.

“I certainly think that with social media and how that’s pushed so many different forms of art, it’s so much more accessible than I remember before the Internet,” Young said. “It was difficult to find new stuff all the time and now there’s so much of it. It takes you 30 seconds to dive into it and feel so inspired by whatever it is. I love that.”

Young also believes that it has become commonplace for artists, musicians and other creative types to go ahead with their projects and release them themselves rather than wait for a label, filmmaker or other backing.

“I want to live in that place where I can do my own thing and I don’t necessarily have to play ball with some major record label. I love to just hunker down, do my own thing and send it out into the world. If there’s folks out there that connect with it, then I’m amazed and very, very humbled and grateful,” Young said.

Young is currently focused on his film score project and has some other ideas in mind, including a band project with a friend, but he promises that he hasn’t given up Owl City.

“The more than I experiment with other projects and the more that I touch on one and then go to another one and come back, I come back twice inspired and motivated,” Young said.

You can see more of Eads’ art by visiting his studio at The Brewery in Los Angeles during artwalk weekend April 2 and 3.