SST Workshop

To cap off a great (and super busy) year for SST, our head composer Ryan Walsh was lucky enough to come away with the APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award for Best Music for an Advertisement for his work on “Let It Shine (feat. MAY)” commissioned by Tourism & Events Queensland. The awards were presented on Dec. 1 at Sydney’s City Recital Hall and honoured the incredible depth and diversity of Australian screen music talent. Honorees included David Hirschfelder (taking out Feature Film Score of the Year for The Railway Man) and Cezary Skubiszewski (who scored a three awards including Best Music for A Television Series or Serial for ABC TV’s Serangoon Road).

Brisbane-based Ryan was the only Queensland composer to take out an award this year with SST also being the first music house outside Sydney or Melbourne to take home an APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award.

Check out a full list of the winners here.

Great news this week with SST Composer Ryan Walsh being nominated for an APRA award for his score to Tourism & Events Queensland’s “Where Australia Shines” campaign. This is Ryan’s second nomination in two years having been recognised last year in the “Best Music for a Documentary” category for his original score to the ABC-TV documentary “Polly Borland – Polymorphous”.

SST is excited to announce a new sound and mix suite located in inner-city Brisbane. Located just off the city end of the Gray St. Bridge we are now able to offer progress and presentation screenings to local clients in a central location. Come have a coffee (and play X-Box).

SST Composer Ryan Walsh was luck enough to this month have the chance to conduct sessions at Fox Studios in Los Angeles as part of this year’s ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop. Writing for and conducting a 60-piece orchestra of some of Hollywood’s finest musicians in what is one of the most hallowed locations in film-scoring history: The 20th Century Fox – Alfred Newman Scoring Stage . The first independent Australian composer selected for this program, Ryan was asked to re-compose a section of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones (originally scored by Brian Eno). Check out the final results here.

SST were recently asked to reprise our role in creating a custom suite of of music for AirAsia to use internationally. Based on our original brand TVCs (shot by director Israel Rivera), we were asked to take a piece of music that was ethereal and atmospheric and turn into into something a little more “retail” for use across a number of media. Check out the new spots here. (via Publicis Mojo Brisbane)

SST Composer Ryan Walsh has just been announced as a participant in the 2014 ASCAP Film Scoring Program based in Los Angeles. Ryan has been selected as one of twelve composers world-wide and will have an opportunity to record and conduct an “A list” of Hollywood professionals, including a 60-piece orchestra of LA’s finest on a major studio film scoring stage, a legendary scoring mixer, professional music editors, copyists and composers acting as coaches and mentors.

Selected composers are chosen from approximately 1000 submissions each year  with prospective participants having their work judged by some of the biggest names in film-scoring. Recent alumni of this prestigious program include Cliff Martinez (Drive, Only God Forgives), Joseph Trapanese (Tron Legacy, Oblivion) and Matt Margerson (Kick Ass 2, X-Men: First Class).