By historical standards, a Composer is commissioned only to write the music Work. Much of the time, they will also be an arranger and/or conductor, during rehearsals and recording. Since you are here at this page of the website, you are likely looking for a studio owner with a large collection of high quality instruments, who is also an audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist. Welcome!

This is also the place to seek assistance with securing song licenses.

Please be mindful that you're expecting one person to accomplish the work of many. While this makes the finished product a little more affordable, it also takes a little more time. This is just the nature of the process.

I'm a musician with four decades performance as a drummer, guitarist & keyboardist. I've owned and operated a large collection of industry standard studio equipment and musical instruments for three decades, with my work screening at the most prestigious festivals in Australia, including Flickerfest, MIFF, and CinefestOZ.

In my youth, I played big-band standards, before finding contemporary music.

My intellectual approach is contrasted by the raw physicality of performing live.

While I'm able to read and write music, I'm not afraid to abandon those tools.

The Watchers (2026), dir. Jez Underwood

This narrative short was a collaboration between Neon Chips, Berry Multimedia and Shogun Studios, as an entrant into the international film competition, 48 Hour Film Project (fka Global48). All films must have been made in the same 48-hour period.

Editing was formally undertaken on the second day, with the picture lock completed before lunch, for transfer to Shogun Studios, where I completed four elements of audio post-production; dialogue editing, sound design, music composition, and session mixing. Submission was strictly at 7:00pm that night.

This provides an example of creating a film score under extraorinary time-pressure. My approach was to keep it simple. I recalled the drama of Neil Young's OST for the 1995 Jim Jarmusch film Dead Man (starring Johnny Depp), which was solely a Gibson electric guitar played through an overdriven and reverb-drenched valve amp. This reinforced the desperation, fear and sense of isolation experienced by the two young woman, as their paranoia leads to suspicions about the new intruder.

Please click the image or title link to hear the music in its visual context.

Graduation (2021), dir. Ollie Wicks

In my capacity as Location Sound Recordist for this VCA Masters student film, I was spontaneously asked to guide the lead actress in composing a piano piece on-the-fly.

Much like the situation with "The Watchers" time-pressure demanded simplicity. While the instrumentation involves only a random melody over the suspension from a 5th to 4th in the left hand, it carries the melancholy weight of the mother character. My experience as a music instrument tutor came in handy.

You can jump to 3:35 if you don't want to wade through the film's introduction.