orchestral percussion

Dec 6, 2011:

Off the back of 15 international festival screenings of her last film Habibti, director Nour Wazzi is now crowdfunding her next short, Shackled.

A psychological thriller, it’s co-produced by Shirine Best and Ellie Emptage through Panacea Productions and Traveller Films.  They sent us a beautiful hand-drawn title sequence and an irresistible brief – sinister 1950s circus music.

Here’s the result – a score for two music boxes, soprano voice, violin, accordion, calliope, tuba and orchestral percussion:

And here’s the music:

Film: Shackled – Titles (Panacea Productions/Traveller Films) by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Please visit the crowdfunding page for Shackled now! For a few dollars you can get an on-screen ‘Special Thanks’; for a few more you can get even better perks…

Apr 16, 2010:

We’ve composed a quiet, balletic waltz soundtrack for Oliver Crowther’s Straight 8 short film Sleeping Lions.

The film’s ensemble cast includes Robert Sample. It was filmed in one take on Bexhill seafront.

Our score stars haunting organ as The Clown, music box as The Girl, and piano and violin as Omniscient Narrators. Listen past the gap for the full ending…

Sleeping Lions – original soundtrack by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor
Sleeping Lions – original soundtrack by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Or click here to listen to more music we’ve composed for films.