Graeme Revell
| Graeme Revell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 October 1955 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Occupation | Composer |
Graeme Revell (born 23 October 1955) is a New Zealand film score composer.[1]
Revell attended Auckland Grammar School, where he finished his final year in 7A. He is relatively unknown to most New Zealanders, despite having worked in the film business for 30 years, compared to fellow Hollywood New Zealanders such as Anna Paquin, Sam Neill and Zoë Bell.
Revell is a classically trained pianist and French horn player, but also graduated from the University of Auckland with degrees in economics and political science. He worked as a regional planner in Australia and Indonesia and as an orderly in an Australian psychiatric hospital. Later, he was a founding member of the industrial music band SPK, playing keyboards and percussion. The SPK single "In Flagrante Delicto" was the basis for his first film score, for Dead Calm, which won him an Australian Film Industry award.
His musical style is very much electronic and computer-based in nature, yet often utilizes classical instruments or entire arrangements for certain pieces, much like his contemporary counterparts Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham. His orchestral scores throughout the years of his career changes, from Bernard Herrmann-like to Ennio Morricone-like. His music is often re-used from movie to movie and in more recent times he has collaborated with other artists on their albums. After the success of his soundtrack on Red Planet where he used the voice of French singer Emma Shapplin to back up and often lead his score, he collaborated with her on her own album Etterna, producing all of her songs. He has recently been interviewed for the independent documentary Finding Kraftland.
He has been assisted in sound design by dark ambient composer Lustmord.[2]
On 18 May 2005, Revell was honored at the BMI annual Film & TV Awards with the Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement. [3]
Credited soundtracks
Film
Television and video
- Bangkok Hilton (1988) (mini-series)
- Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
- Tomb Raider (1996)
- Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (1998)
- Bats Abound (1999)
- Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) (mini-series)
- Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
- CSI: Miami (2002)
- Kung Faux (2003)
- Legends (2004)
- The Forgotten (2009)
- The River (2011)
Video games
- Call of Duty 2 (2005)
- Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005)
References
External links
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