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.
