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Calvary

This is the final scene of the film. No dialogue or sound fx, The music alone carries the story to it’s conclusion.The innocent priest is shot dead. We immediately see a series of ...

#klangberlins: S-Bahn

The tempo for the whole piece came from the big station clock. The challenge of the piece was to get all different kinds of screeching-sounds for the different perspectives of the trains. We achieved this through ...

ANZ – holdtight

The brief was to compose a piece that loosely matched the cuts, sets the tone and shapes the narrative. The music should blend the stories together and have it’s own internal voice, driving the film and ...

Dystopia

The music for the film came mainly from duo improvisation sessions in the studio - using live electronics on drums, lap-steel guitar and synthesizer. It was all about getting a clear vibe together through ...

Officeworks – Xmas

Playful composition and orchestration in the style of Pixar or Disney. Tightly following the picture and cuts to define the story in a clear and emotive way. I kept the composition mostly in the lydian ...

The Clockmaker’s Dream – In Love

Director: Cashell Horgan Producer: Made Films (Ireland) Composer: Michael Edwards

Mazda CX-5

The client wanted a triumphant, majestic wide open feel for this commercial. The temp music was from Enrico Morricone. It was important for the client that we follow his sound and aesthetics, enabling us free range to use harmony, melody and rhythm to compose as we saw fit. We enjoyed maintaining a diatonic chord structure whilst experimenting with the harmonic rhythm to give it a unique flavour.

The Clockmaker’s Dream – Village

The Clockmaker’s Dream is essentially a silent film with very occasional narration. The orchestral score programmatically narrates the Clockmaker's emotional journey. A Clockmaker is entrusted to care for a world that runs like clockwork. But when ...

The Clockmaker’s Dream – Doctor

The Clockmaker’s Dream is essentially a silent film with very occasional narration. The orchestral score programmatically narrates the Clockmaker's emotional journey. A Clockmaker is entrusted to care for a world that runs like clockwork. But when ...

Narcan

This is the final scene of the film. The main character tormented by his predicament and the weight of the decision he has to make. The solo piano reflects his isolation and loneliness, the orchestra joins then, he’s emotions are released. In the end, he ...

Whale Rider

My first feature film, I had the honour to work on with Lisa Gerrard. An independent film that went on to gain an Oscar nomination for best actress for Keisha Castle-Hughes in 2004.

Snooze-On – White Satin Leaves

Being a hybrid track of classical instruments (string quartet, harp) as well as a rock-based band playing (drums, guitar, etc), the recording process had to be planned through precicely beforehand, since those instruments ...

Mishka

With this piece I basically turned a dog into music. I wrote it for my masters degree in composition at the UdK Berlin. My goal was to find a different and unusual approach on treating and developing musical ideas. Sometimes it ...

#klangberlins: Making Of

Our challenge was to compose 13 pieces whereby the ‘sound of berlin’ is performed only by using traditional orchestral instruments in non traditional ways. We brainstormed with the producers, director and...

#klangberlins: Tempelhof

The key to unlocking the sound of an abandoned airport was noticing how closely the sound of a pencil on paper is to the sound of a skateboard on concrete. Instead of ...

#klangberlins: Handwerk

This piece is driven by an inner industrial rhythmic pulse. Many of the industrial sounds were created by layering extended technique percussion. Such as ...

#klangberlins: Zoo

This was a lot of fun to compose. We went for an overall comic feel, mimicking the timing of the animals actions rather than composing strictly to tempo Some of ...

#klangberlins: Trabi

Turning an orchestra into a car was a lot of fun! We used different ensemble sizes to sonically match the rapid visual perspective changes. Harsh bowing for ...

#klangberlins: Spielplatz

The most distinctive sound of playground is the sound or children playing. Certain focused sounds we could achieve through extended orchestral playing. Such as ...

#klangberlins: Rollkoffer

This is essentially a duo percussion piece, with each player drumming on 5 different surfaces to create 5 different surface sounds of the suitcase wheels. There is a ...

#klangberlins: Photoautomat

The flash sound was created by layering a number of percussion and woodwind instruments making the pfff sound. The sound of an electronic flash sounds ...

#klangberlins: Natur

Creating background ambient sounds without specific visual focus was a definite challenge throughout the entire project. Especially here in this clip as ...

#klangberlins: Currywurst

In this clip we brought two Berlin icons together for the first time, Currywurst and Classical music. A great sound match was the use of a rainmaker for ...

#klangberlins: CSD

The idea of this piece began with the idea of a kiss. In the rehearsal, the musicians competed on who could make the best sound with their mouthpiece. There was a ...

Ichi

I scored this film working with Lisa Gerrard giving voice to Ichi the blind female warrior. Set in mythical time, I wanted the music to be epic and timeless, yet fragile enough to ...

1916 Irish Rebelion

I composed music for the official 3 hour documentary to mark the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin with Patrick Cassidy. Recorded with the RTE Concert Orchestra. Narrated by Liam Neeson.