FILMS / GAMES / INSTALLATIONS
I've always found composing and designing sound, foley or voices for films, games and installations exciting and enjoyable. Each collaboration has been an exploration into utterly different but thoroughly convincing worlds. I covet the chance to work with artists and directors on projects on any scale. Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you need professional and timely service in this area.
YELLOW LIGHT MACHINE
Soundtrack for a short film by Hanqi Shen
(trailer viewable here)
CIRCLE OF LIFE
Music/Choreography/Film Project
Project organised by art organisation NOASS in Riga, to form collaborations between choreographers, film-makers and composers to create short video works for exhibition at their annual Waterpieces Festival. This was the resulting work by my team, where my role was of composer. Team members included Agnese Lace, Dana Zvonarjova, Luize Lapsa, Megija Grauzina, Miks Jeluskins, Nauris Mikelis Goba, and Roberts Pogozelkis.
TEMBUSU BEMUSED
Stick and Balloon's point-and-click puzzle adventure game. It combines hand drawn and built set elements with flash animation, earning a feature on culturepush.com in 2012. The above tracks and all sounds including speech in the game were commissioned. Watch the trailer.
JIMMYFISH
Stick and Balloon's side-scrolling point-and-click hand drawn animation computer game. It earned a Jury selection award and was exhibited at the Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo, Spring 2012. The above tracks and all sounds in the game were commissioned.
FISH IN THE SEA
Short film by Aino Salmi, Baltic Film and Media School, 2015 Synopsis: “Fish in the Sea” is an essay about a dark period of life. The film takes the spectator to step inside of the oppressive time after an uttermost break-up. It introduces the theme with poetic style and strong visuals.
FLOWERBUDS
A short film by Taiwan's Cheng Kai Han screened at the 34th Golden Harvest Awards for Outstanding Short Films festival and won the International Student Film Golden Lion Award at the New Taipei City Film Festival in 2011. These two tracks and several shorter music segments were commissioned to accompany the work, which centres upon an imaginative young boy in a culturally steeped family environment.
MOONCHILD
Moonchild is Stick and Balloon's first stop motion film, which screened in cinema October 2011. The above tracks and all sounds in the film were commissioned. The story concerns a lonely violinist who is visited unexpectedly by a rather disruptive muse.
SIBLING RIVALRY
An animated film trailer by Alastair Sew Hoy, a Sydney-based illustrator and animator pursuing the art of visual storytelling and animation. The story concerns a brother and sister who's childhood squabbles turn into epic stylistic battles in the realm of the imagination. Watch it here.
FAIRLANES INSTALLATION
A series of six video art pieces VJzoo in collaboration with the West Australian Ballet which became a permanent installation on the marble facade of the Fairlanes building in east Perth when it opened in 2012. They commissioned the music for these four pieces.