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Devin Anderson

Don't take any guff from those swine

About Me

Composition, Sound Design, Filmmaking and General Mayhem.

Born in San Diego, California in 1980, Devin Anderson has studied classical piano with Nancy Bussard, composition with Prix de Rome winner Jim Heinke, film music with composer Hummie Mann and attended The Seattle Film Institutes 40 week Total Immersion program.
As a composer, in addition to scoring his own short picture 'Folie à Deux', he has composed music for several independent pictures, including Wisconsin born filmmaker Jack Bennett's short surrealist film 'Synthetik' (which received it's World Premiere at The Beloit International Film Festival in January of 2008, and won it's Director the Emerging Artist Grant) and Tim Boyd's film 'Uniforms' which starred members of the popular group Death Cab for Cutie.
He has also provided music for two promotional films produced by The Northwest Film Forum, the regions first and only non-profit organization for the film arts. He has composed concert works in various genres, including solo instrumental works, vocal works, and chamber ensemble, and recently was commissioned to compose for an Art Exhibition of egg tempura painter Nathan DiPietro.
He has just completed musical duties on a short film, again for director Jack Bennett, entitled 'The Neu Transients'. The picture runs 5 minutes and is a memorial to the City of old now over-run by condos and commercial construction, and uses the Seattle cityscape, the music, and the film's two lead actors (Benjamin Moody and Astrid Benet) to explore ideas of reflection, space, rhythm and transformation. The work premiered at the Northwest Film Forum as part of their City Symphony program on November 19th 2007.
Devin has been awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence at the 2008 Park City Film Music Festival in the category Best Original Music for a Short Film.
He hopes to continue being involved in film and music until his death.
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Songs

With Rope and Gunblack Dragon tongueThe HumpThe TouchMr BlackMy Little Catholic Mexican GirlTensleepCar Crash in VegasSpells Gloria

Orchestral Music for Film and Stage

Paranormal Impromtu - Theme from The Paranormal PodcastThe WindmillTrifles - a play in one actTheme from 'Uniforms'Violin ConcertoMonster Symphony 1st Movement

Electronic and Experimental

Horse in WaterPop ScienceFainting SeizurePigs Eating BloodThe End of a Rope (black angels)Bouncing to the Morgue (are you ready? let's begin)

all music copyright 2005 devin anderson

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is mearly energy condensed through a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, life is only a dream and we are the imaginations of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."~bill hicks

"All hardware items must be admired for their sonic properties; pitchforks, egg beaters, crowbars, fireplace grates, shovels, anvils, rebars (the structural reinforcement rods used in poured concrete), trash cans - the list goes on and on and they're all waiting to be played."~tom waits


Other People's Music
Folie a Deux
RED Camera

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/1/2005
Band Website: devinanderson.com
Band Members:

"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it. Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless."~paul bowles

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

"When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for."~ john lennon
Influences: a few of my favorites (in no particular order) ...
Composers -
JS Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giacomo Puccini, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Nino Rota, Georges Delerue, Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini, Arvo Pärt, Richard Strauss, Ennio Morricone, Krzysztof Penderecki, Richard Wagner, Wojciech Kilar, Dmitri Shostakovich, Michael Nyman, Jerry Goldsmith, Harry Partch, Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin), Danny Elfman, Thomas Newman, Philip Glass, Mychael Danna
Bands -
J Marie Anderson, Eric Hunter and Rod Bailey (PCP Berzerker), Ben McCombs (Uma Floresta), Dexter Riley, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Cab Calloway, John Lennon, Oingo Boingo, Björk, Nick Cave, Skip James, The Tielman Brothers, Cream, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Gene Vincent, Robert and Johnny, Rosie and the Originals, Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson, Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry, The Students, Marc Bolan, Nine Inch Nails, Paul Simon, Johnny Cash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Radiohead, The Faint, The Smiths, The Pixies, The White Stripes
Literary -
Cornell Woolrich, George Orwell, William S. Burroughs, Edgar Allan Poe, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Anaïs Nin, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Hunter S. Thompson, David Icke, Robert Frost, Robert Anton Wilson, Jack Kerouac, Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, H.G. Wells
Painters / Comic Book Artists / Photography / Visual Art -
Astrid Benet, H.R. Giger, Edward Gorey, Gary Larson, Robert Crumb, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, Bill Watterson, Ralph Steadman, Dr. Seuss, Viktor Koen, Henry Fuseli, Brian Froud, Nathan DiPietro, Sarina Brewer, Joel-Peter Witkin, José Guadalupe Posada
Filmmakers -
Jack Bennett, Frederico Fellini, Carol Reed, Orson Welles, Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, Tim Burton, Joel and Ethan Coen, Alejandro Jodorowski, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Jan Svankmajer, Michel Gondry, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jim Jarmusch, Mel Brooks, Spike Jonze, Sergio Leone, Wim Wenders, John Carpenter, Jean Cocteau, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Russ Meyer, George A. Romero, Brothers Quay, Stanley Kubrick, James Whale, Edward D. Wood Jr.
Films -
Otto e mezzo (8 1/2), The Third Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, Chinatown, Nostalghia, Rear Window, Drowning by Numbers, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Paris Texas, Young Frankenstein. The Shining, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, Dawn of the Dead (Romero's), The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Ed Wood, Dead Man, Back to the Future, Wings of Desire, Vertigo, El Topo, Solyaris, Night Tide, La Strada, Lost Highway, The Thing, Laura, Dracula,many others...
Performers -
Bill Hicks, Leo Kottke, Korla Pandit, Kronos Quartet, Andy Kaufman, Orkestar Zirkonium, Gene Wilder, Harry Dean Stanton, Crispin Glover, Peter Sellers, Grace Kelly, Maila Nurmi (Vampira), Bob Newhart, Jimmy Stewart, George Carlin, Wanda Jackson, Marcello Mastroianni, Max Schreck, Marilyn Manson, Bela Lugosi, Cate Blanchett, Paul Reubens, Johnny Carson, Lesley Gore
Producers -
Justin O'Neill
Sounds Like: Some videos featuring my music.
Folie a Deux - trailer for my short picture
Cinematography by Drew Dawson
The sax tune towards the end was composed and performed by J Marie Anderson

Boundary Bay Brewery Commercial
Dir. Tim Boyd

The Perfect Pint - trailer
Dir. Tim Boyd

The Human Marvels
J Tithonus Pednaud
Shame the sound quality is not so good - interesting, nonetheless
I wrote a number of carnival-themed cues for his podcasts
The Human Marvels website is at
http://www.thehumanmarvels.com/Very interesting stuff there, and kudos to Mr. Pednaud for his efforts compiling and presenting it.
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My Blog

Folie and Synthetik at Beloit International Festival and Park City Award

Folie (along with two other Northwest films - Dave Hanagan's lovely 'Circadia Sees the Moon' and Jack Bennett's 'Synthetik') played at The Beloit International Film Festival in late January.We had a b...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:08:00 PST

Folie à Deux at Local Sightings Film Festival

Come one, come all - Wake the neighbors and phone the kids.... my short film 'Folie à Deux' will play atThe Northwest Film Forum - Local Sightings ...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:09:00 PST

Folie à Deux - Short Picture - 2007 - b&w and color

the word 'blog' makes me sick.so my short film 'Folie à Deux' is finished and being sent to festivals, I am told. Hope it gets in something, that would be a fun surprise. Anyone interested in seeing t...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:19:00 PST

UPDATES / NEW PROJECTS - Zombies and a beer commercial

UPDATES / NEW PROJECTS Finishing up musical duties on an audio production based on David Moody's popular series of Zombie novels - 'Autumn' The production is being produced by Paul Mannerin...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:02:00 PST

my personal, real life - a true story.

Some Thoughts and Self Reflection. jan. 2007   By day I work at a teleconferencing company. By night I make music and films. These are my passions and I would be a very (even moreso?!) unpleasant...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:59:00 PST

Music for The Human Marvels dot com

I have recently composed music for J Tithonus Pednaud's podcast 'The Human Marvels', which features material derived from his related website http://www.thehumanmarvels.com The material was quite fun...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:26:00 PST

Gallery of works by Nathan Dipietro

the current 4 primary selections on this page are from the Nathan Dipietro Gallery...   due to the last minute nature of the project, I rushed these into production - however ultimately i'm ...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:30:00 PST

'Uniforms' to premiere at Georgia Festival

Uniforms will be showing as part of Paste Magazine's Rock N Reel Film Festival in Decatur, Georgia. Uniforms will show in Screening room 2 on Saturday, Oct 22nd at 8:20 pm  Director, Timothy...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:25:00 PST

gorgeous

High School and Elementary School Dropouts Dropped Out, But Later Received High-School Diploma Equivalency Status (months, years, or decades later: equivalency diploma, honorary diploma, admission t...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:20:00 PST

Devin-related Items = CD, Tee-Shirts, Other weird items...

why would anyone want my ugly mug on a tee-shirt?that i dont know - but it exists...along with a little limited edition disc of quirky tunes. and other weird stuff, which i can't imagine anyone actual...
Posted by Devin Anderson on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST