Art and science documentary

Phenomena

Featured as Audio Expert

I feature in Phenomena as the Audio Expert — an award-winning art and science documentary directed by Josef Gatti, screening at film festivals around the world.

I worked with Josef on this for eight years before it was released, from the earliest iterations. I started as composer on the pilot of the web series it grew out of, and we kept working together on various projects from there.

For the film I was brought in to build the waves experiment — a practical demonstration of how sound frequencies can be made visible, and the patterns they form. Every image in Phenomena was captured in camera, with no visual effects. So the music and sound I produced for that sequence weren’t scoring the visuals. They were generating them.

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  • Audience Award AFO Olomouc — International Competition
  • Best Science Communication AFO Olomouc — International Competition
  • Finalist, Documentary Australia Award Sydney Film Festival
  • True/False Film Fest
  • CPH:DOX
  • Melbourne International Film Festival
  • Sydney Film Festival
  • Sheffield DocFest
  • DC/DOX Film Festival

The full festival run is on phenomena.film.

Phenomena key art: a hand reaching towards a petri dish of swirling red, purple and orange chemical reaction on a pale surface, surrounded by film festival laurels.

Josef Gatti also directed Metamorphosis, the immersive short now showing in Melbourne Museum’s Learning Lab, where I was Composer, Sound Designer and Mixer.

See Metamorphosis