FILM / TV / GAMES
A HAUNTING IN VENICE
by HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR
Score Producer
A Haunting in Venice is a film directed by Kenneth Branagh featuring a super unusual score, based around the instruments and tonalities of post-war western classical music. The influences of Messian and Luigi Nono hover in the air. As a producer, I developed techniques for spatialising dissonant woodwind materials around the cinema, so that the score oscilates between simple stereo, and a gasping 3D maze of overtones - like a spirit being conjured from the center of the room.
THE RAILWAYMEN
A television series by YRF
Composer
Bold, thriller from Indian producers YRF about the Bohpal Gas Disaster. The score, features heavily warped strings, juxtaposed against modern, driving synthesis, to create a sense of tension and struggle.
SIX OF ONE
A film by MINKA BLEAKLEY
Composer
Striking, bold first film from Australian director Minka Bleakley, telling the story of a young mother is overwhelmed by her new responsibilities. She takes off from her rural-suburban home, leaving her hard-partying husband to pick up the pieces. The score is simple, working with looped, gently broken guitars and looming, melancholy atmospheres.
BATTLEFIELD 2042
A video game by EA and DICE
Composer
This score is unusually heavy and conceptual, bringing hyper processed sounds into a dystopian near-future world in which climate change has taken hold. Each sound is made from materials in the level, so what sounds like drums, electronics and strings is really made of metals, sand, glass, custom AI Scripts to tease out new textures from field recordings, and big bass drivers stuck in chaotic feedback systems.
THE RIVER BETWEEN US
A film by CARL GIERSTORFER
Composer
A gorgeous film about an uncontacted Peruvian tribe and a neighbouring villages attempts to understand them. The simple string and organ score features a Peruvian funeral song reharmonised and reorchestrated, which slowly deconstructs as the film moves on.
I’M NOT A MONSTER
A BBC / PBS series by JOSHUA BAKER
Composer
Joshua Baker is one of the UK’s most promising journalists. The series follows his 4 year long challenge to find Sam, a mother from the USA who brings her young family to ISIS controlled Syria to fight for the terrorist group. The highly awarded series was applauded for its weighty sound world of processed field recordings.
CHERNOBYL
by HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR
Score Producer
Chernobyl was the highest rated TV Show ever on its release, and its score quickly became celebrated the world over, winning an EMMY for Best Score in a Limited Series as well as numerous other accolades. The score is made entirely from recordings of a Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania, processed using tape machines and computers in my studio in Berlin alongside composer Hildur Gudnadottir.
JOKER
by HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR
Score Producer
This score began in 2018 with tiny recording sessions in the Funkhaus in Berlin, and then developing with Hildur’s string writing in her studio and hefty amounts of sound mangling in mine here in Berlin. Finally we ended up in New York with a 100 piece Orchestra to bring the work to life. It went on to win an Academy Award for Best Original Score, a Golden Globe for Best Original Score, a BAFTA for Best Original Score and the film itself won the Golden Lion at Venice.
MOTHER!
by DARREN ARONOFSKY
Score Production & Musical Sound Design
ARONOFSKY makes some of the most challenging films around, emotional, dark and on the edge of lunacy. mother! is a religious allegory dressed up as a classic home invasion movie and the sound world is truly unique. The music-less sound world is entirely made of textures and scrapes from the original score, layered into the SFX of the house to bring the world to life.
CANDYMAN
ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE
Additional Engineering
MANDY
JOHANN JOHANNSSON
Musical Sound Design
MARY MAGDELENE
HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR
& JOHANN JOHANNSSON
Programming & Mix Engineer
SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO
HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR
Soundtrack Producer
RECORDS
Simon Goff
VALE (7K Records)
Producer
Andreas Dzialocha
For Always (Hyperdelia)
Producer / Mix Engineer
Mammút
Ride The Fire (Karkari Records)
Producer / Mix Engineer
Shapednoise
Aesthesis (Numbers)
Sound Design / Production
Zebrakatz
Less is Moor (ZFK Records)
Mix Engineer
Zebrakatz
Less is Moor (ZFK Records)
Producer
Valgeir Sigurðsson
Dissonance (Bedroom Community)
Engineer
Julia Reidy
Brace, Brace
Recording / Mix Engineer
Ryuchi Sakamoto
"Solari - Jóhann Jóhannsson Rework" (async Remodels)
Musical Sound Design / Mix Engineer
Ben Frost
The Centre Cannot Hold (Mute)
Additional Musical Sound Design
Nadia Sirota
Tessellatum (Bedroom Community)
Engineer
Mica Levi & Eliza McCarthy
Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall (Slip)
Mix Engineer
Johann Johannsson
Englabörn & Variations (DG)
Programming, Musical Sound Design & Mix Engineer
IMMERSIVE REALITY
ANIMATE
by Chris Salter
Music/ Sound by Sam Slater, Caterina Barbieri, Limpe Fuchs
»Animate« sits at the crossroads of performance, installation and radio play utilizing the newest Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies in order to blur the experience between the physical and the digital world. An interdisciplinary international artistic and technological team from Montreal and Berlin thus takes the Weimar audience on an extraordinary participatory journey that uses the creative potential of new technologies to address the urgency of climate catastrophe.
Featuring MONOM / 4D Sound’s custom 48 Channel Speaker system, audience members are drawn through climate affected Canada, and brought to a peak in an earthquake of sound, generative VR rocks and poinency, asking us in what way we wish to inhabit our earth.
Curated by DISK Initiative, CTM Festival, Kunstfest Weimar, Canadian Cultural Fund.
Temple of Alternative Histories
by Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Anna Rún Tryggvadottir and Staatstheater Kassel
Consisting of three major components—an arts exhibition, public programme, and stage work—Temple of Alternative Histories was inspired by the origins of the theater as a ritualistic meeting place, a structure built around an empty metaphorical space intended to stage and host meaning.
Working directly with the Orchestra, recycling motifs from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, stretching and distorting them into unheard shapes with new meanings using electronics and then re-scoring this for the Orchestra, the music becomes a living reaction to a divisive work in the canon.
LIVE / TOURING
VANDALS
Sam Slater, Theresa Baumgartner
CTM Festival 2022, Berlin
Commissioned by CTM and Arctic Arts
Chernobyl Live
feat. Hildur Gudnadottir, Sam Slater and Chris Watson
Touring 2020-2023
A Winged Victory For The Sullen
2020 EU / UK Tour
Live Electronics Development
Jóhann Jóhannsson
2017 European Tour
Tape Machines & Electronics Development / Engineer