Music for Film
PROJECTS
FISH IN THE SEA
Finnish director Aino Salmi commissioned this soundtrack for her final thesis film at the Baltic Film and Media School which enjoyed screenings in Tallin in the summer of 2015 and beyond. The plot concerns a young woman who finds her feet after a hard breakup, meanwhile haunted by ever more menacing visions.
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.
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 now.
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.
Music for Games
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.
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.
Music for Visual Art
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. One of the pieces, "On The Roof" later became the seed material for my ensemble piece, "Furrows in the Fold". Similarly, "Ghost Dancer" became seed material for the vocal piece "Ubi Est Mors".
The Beaux Arts Ballet
Ghost Dancer
The Machine
On The Roof
Music for Train Stations
Ambient Electronic
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