This is music I wrote for Stephen McNally's gorgeous animation 'Forgot' which is currently doing the rounds at Festivals. 
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014
Nominated for the McLaren Award for Best British Animation
Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh 2014
Best First Animated Short Special Mention Galway Film Fleadh 2014
The trailer can be found here https://vimeo.com/81117784 and some info on Stephen is available here http://stephenmcnallydraws.com/


'Forgot' Soundtrack

My setting of Sarah Griffin's poem, Granite. 
Orla Colleton: Soprano
Peter Leavy: Piano

This dark corridor, that starless night,
those faces made bizarre by a hunger I can’t abate.
Strange clattering and bangs
-Suggestions of a likening, or at least some quickening
in this slow march, slow movement through the days.
Signals, I think – or hope – of a changing.
‘Or perhaps not’, whispers the stone.
Perhaps not.
That cold stone – that granite,
leaning above you
like a sentinel frozen and solid.
Cold, cold, cold
– where once I ran
Through heather and bog,
Legs slashed by sharper twigs
Fingers and lips stained
by blackberries
(scratches ignored, as plump and juicy they called to us from the ditches).
The run up the hill – always with the wind at my back, or blessedly in my face,
Until we reached the height- the summit
– where all below us was all before us
And here the sun had warmed
the cold, cold rock of Wicklow,
so I would lie panting like a young pup
against the stone,
the granite,
as I looked down over rolling hills,
waiting for you
to come smiling over the brow.

Granite

The fourth movement from my Suite for Woodwinds (2014). Performed by Cassiopeia Winds. Flute - Susan Doyle, Oboe - Matthew Manning, Clarinet in Bb - Deirdre O'Leary, Bassoon - John Hearne.

Movement IV

The fifth movement from my Suite for Woodwinds (2014). Performed by Cassiopeia Winds. Flute - Susan Doyle, Oboe - Matthew Manning, Clarinet in Bb - Deirdre O'Leary, Bassoon - John Hearne.

Movement V

The title track I wrote for the debut album by Llangollen 2015 'Choir of the World' Maynooth Chamber Choir. Conducted here by Michael Dawson and recorded, edited, and mastered by Brian Masterson. The cover art is courtesy of alandunne.ie

Lorica

I wrote this piece for violist Brett Walfish.  Here is a recording of the premiere performance, 23rd of April 2016, at the Staller Center for the Arts, New York with Matthieu Cognet accompanying.

It is in three movements, movement two is at 2:56 and movement three is at 5:53

Feeling, Thinking, to the Frozen Sea

Talker Soundtrack 16-09 draft

Rough cut of a piece I wrote for the Mad4Strings orchestra, Madrid, conducted by Juanjo Molina

Bitter Diamond

Found this on the hard drive. A while ago I was asked to do something in the style of some shoegazing rock, so I wrote something about my son kicking away in his cot.

Shoegazing demo

I am a classically trained composer writing for media and live ensembles. 
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Email: adamcullenmusic@gmail.com

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