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Current/Recent projectsTV/FilmHere's the Nikon HD Video Showcase - four beautifully-shot video clips that I was commissioned to compose and produce music for Nikon Asia in 2010 and 2011. Thanks to Mike Fudakowski (bass and co-writer of "Coffee"), Mike Ferrar and Harry Harrison (guitars) and Laura Tomlin (vocals). And thanks also to the amazing guys at Nomadic Planet for the chance to work on such beautiful footage. June 2010: I've started in on a very stylish short film. Looking forward to the creative sound design needed for the scene where the character withdraws into her subconscious... A 2009 short film - "Homefront" (Picture The Difference) - features piano composition of mine. It has plenty of opportunities for the underscore to gently set the scene and move things along as the dialog is very sparse. In late 2008 another of Southern Screen Productions' documentaries I've composed for was broadcast. It followed the progress of the trial of a new drug for Parkinson's disease. "Bumble" is being broadcast every day on the new digital TV channel TVNZ6 in NZ. It is a series aimed at pre-schoolers I wrote music for some time ago (1999 - 2001). My music for a short film was given the Best Score award in the regional finals of the 2007 48 Hours Film Competition. The film; "Carboys and the Indian", won the regional competition and went on to win the Runner-Up award nationally. Some samples of the music are on this page and this page. The film itself is here (7 minutes). In early 2007 I did the score to "Looking Up" - a bittersweet short film entry into that year's Tropfest short film festival. TheatreI am proud to be part of the Loons Circus Theatre Company as composer/sound designer/musician for "Macbeth". The rubble of demolished buildings in Lyttelton created a fantastic opportunity to have a suitably ravaged and even post-apocalyptic feel for our version. And my duduk playing is getting better and better... March/April 2010: sound design for the Court Theatre's play "The Female Of The Species". Not much call for music, but recorded a nice version of "Mad World" (a jazz-tinged version of the Gary Jules version of the classic Tears For Fears original...) with Jennine Bailey on vocals. I created a music/sound design for a production of the Dylan Thomas play "Under Milk Wood" at Christchurch's Court Theatre in February/March 2008. Also in February/March 2008 I completed original music for a live show in Christchurch Cathedral - "Appassionata" - featuring amazing custom-built costumes (by Jenny Gillies) based around a floral concept.Carl Nixon's new play "The Raft" was performed as part of the 2007 Christchurch Arts Festival. My music for it is written for cello and clarinet, and includes a liberal dose of processed cello harmonics for the more surreal moments. There's a review here. Composition for live performanceThe February 2008 "Appassionata" Gala Concert (details here) featured original music of mine being performed by treble choir, arch-lute, recorders (and various processed and synthetic textures from Logic). Also appearing were Dame Malvina Major, Fiona Pears, Ballantyne Haines, Brain Law and the ChristChurch Cathedral Choir.
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