Sound Design / Commissions

Composer · Heli Salomaa (FI)

Suldo Limit (BIRDPARTY REMIX) played in Oulu Art Museum in Oulu, Finland to support the costume design work of Heli Salomaa. The track is brooding and intense, to match her post-apocalyptic costume design for the game Control (Remedy Entertainment, 2019)

Sound Design · Lōemis Festival

For The Night Crossing, I was commissioned to compose a 90 minute soundscape to tell the story of the 10-foot Mother Earth puppet. The story followed her as she acknowledged each of the elements, and then was crowned, symbolising the seasonal change from winter into spring.

Foley | Sound Design | Mix · BitGym

BitGym are a fitness machine company who distribute scenic tours from accross the world for people to immerse themselves in while using exercise machines. I worked closely with Videographer Mark Russell to produce the sonic aspects of his videos. This included heavy editing of audio recordings and often rebuilding the soundscapes from scratch.

Field Recording | Sound Design · Pyramid Club

This project is an attempt to sonically document our environment, acting as a time capsule of sound. The project consists of a downloadable field recording pack of a location, accompanied by a piece written entirely using recordings from that place. This was a commission from Pyramid Club.

Sound Design | Performace · LUMA

LUMA is a 4-day light festival in Queenstown, New Zealand, attracting over 40,000 people. I was comissioned to write a half-hour soundscape to play amongst the light show in the Rose Garden Area. I also performed 3 live sets and 1 DJ set over the duration of the festival

Sound Design | Production · Classical On Cuba

I was commissioned by John Psathas to create a new work in collaboration with Instrumental Composer Julian Kirgan Báez to be played at Classical On Cuba 2023 with Naoto Segawa on Marimba.

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Composer · New Zealand International Film Festival

I composed the track to the Official Trailer for the 2023 New Zealand International Film Festival. There were 131 films playing in 15 regions accross Aotearoa, and the trailer played before every screening of each film.

Sound Design · Keri-Mei Zagrobelna

Keri-Mei Zagrobelna comissioned me to do the sound design for her digital piece Te Pito, a story of connecting to the whenua (land) and ancestry. The work combines jewellry, dance and sound and has played in Aotearoa, Belgium and Australia.

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Sound Design · Performance Arcade

Waterfront Monophony was a free and accessible sound art installation event presented on four occasions across January and February of 2023 near Wellington’s Waterfront / Te Aranui o Pōneke, where performers moved loudspeakers back and forth along the waterfront. I was comissioned alongside 5 other New Zealand composers.

Post-production | Composition · New Zealand Council of Trade Unions

I worked with the Council Of Trade Unions Aotearoa to provide the Title Track for the podcast, and do all of the post-production editing.

Sound Design · CIRCUIT

The Sound of Seeing is a series of three film screenings which present an alternative history of Aotearoa experimental music, seen through the prism of artists film and video 1973-2020. I was commissioned by Pyramid Club and Circuit to provide a soundtrack to two of the films that were made without audio.

Sound Design | Composition · Fringe Festival

Wisdom Of Waters is a full-length dance show I produced the score for. Presented by the all-female collective Speaking Spines, and choreographed by Georgia Beechey, the powerful work somatically explores ancient and modern feminine figures and ideologies through a rolling series of ritual-like scenes and symbolic objects.

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