Hilary Burt

I create music for animation. As a film composer I will synchronise my music to fit the action of your film. The idiosyncratic nature of stop motion animation in particular seem to fit my style of composition.

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The movie below is a clip by the visual artist and animator Karen Aqua with my score added. It is taken from her nine-minute movie titled Ground Zero/Sacred Ground (1997), a movie created with hand-painted animation. This is the first two minutes of the film set to my music.

 

Being an animation composer  involves quite a different way of creating music. My first 'draft' in the film below was me playing the piano all the way through whilst watching the film. From here I edited the theme, put in the synchronised detail of certain bits of the action (such as the beginning with the rock carving). Then had fun with the orchestration. 

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