music custom-written for production music libraries and TV.

TV/Film Music

A soaring Chinese erhu melody builds to a climax with orchestral strings and driving synth arpeggios.

A piece written as part of an album of epic trailer music with oriental instruments. The full album can be listened to here: https://search.twelvetonesproductionmusic.com/#/album/TWPM044/e9cba3ceda614823

Jade Dragon

Rising Phoenix

Zen atmosphere with taiko drumming and koto  leads to a building climax   with ominous synths. A samurai's adventure.

A piece written as part of an album of epic trailer music with oriental instruments. The full album can be listened to here: https://search.twelvetonesproductionmusic.com/#/album/TWPM044/e9cba3ceda614823

Path of the Samurai

Path Of The Samurai

Driving chase action trailer music - synth arpeggios and massive drums incessantly build into a climax.

A piece written as part of an album of epic trailer music with oriental instruments. The full album can be listened to here: https://search.twelvetonesproductionmusic.com/#/album/TWPM044/e9cba3ceda614823

Chase Through Chinatown

Dark, industrial and cinematic music cue for TV/Film with orchestral, synth, and dubstep/house elements.
Drama / Action / Trailer / Promo / Sports / Extreme Sports

Composed, performed & produced by Anna Hetherington, released by Evolution Media Music 2014 on their 'Power Trailers' album. 

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Emergence - Power Trailers (Evolution Media)

Romantic, sweeping, orchestral music suitable for a TV/film period drama.

Custom composed & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Northstar Music Publishing/Stock Music Library, 2016

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Period Drama

Portrait of a Lady

Portrait Of A Lady - Period Drama (Northstar Music Publishing)

Heavy, dark, drum n bass/rock tinged music featuring bowed distorted guitars, squealing synths and melodic guitars. To soundtrack a heist, with ideas of order and chaos.

Composed for National Geographic/Channel 5's Banged Up Abroad UK television series

Written, performed & produced by Anna Hetherington, released by Arms Production Music, 2018.

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Entropy

Entropy -  National Geographic/Channel 5 Banged Up Abroad

60s hippy road trip! 
Motown/northern soul meets 1960s surf (driving drums and bass, slapback guitars, sax section and organ melodies)

Composed for National Geographic/Channel 5's Banged Up Abroad UK TV series

Written, performed & produced by Anna Hetherington, released by Arms Production Music/Anara/BAM, 2018.

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Freewheeling - pitch for National Geographic/Channel 5 Banged Up Abroad

Atmospheric, glitchy, wonky electronica.
Written for Vice TV's 'How to Rob a Bank' series

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Arms Production Music, 2018.

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Kovaz - Vice TV 'How to Rob a Bank' (Arms Production Music)

A minimalist, quirky, polyphonic marimba-led piece, written in a pitch for Channel 4's Secret Life of the Zoo. Imagine beautiful creatures interacting and playing.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Arms Production Music, April 2019.

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Commote - pitch for C4 Secret Life of the Zoo (Arms Production Music)

Rising synth arpeggios lead to a drop with big, processed chopped up drums, sub bass & chords. A serious, epic mood with Tesla coil sampled synths adding a futuristic technological element.

From an album called Digitise on the theme of tech, science, thinking, breakthroughs, plotting and scheming. 

Influences include Atticus Ross' soundtrack for The Social Network & Trentemoller.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Strophic Music Publishing, February 2020.

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Digitise

Uprising

Techy electronica with orchestral string breakdown creating an epic, hopeful & futuristic mood.
Think robots/science/technology with contrast between pulsating synths and humanistic vocal synths. 

From an album called Digitise on the theme of tech, science, thinking, breakthroughs, plotting and scheming. 

Influences include Atticus Ross' soundtrack for The Social Network & Trentemoller.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Strophic Music Publishing, February 2020.

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Quantum Leap

Pulsating and arpeggiated synth textures over house beats & a building distorted synth create a dark, sinister mood.
Think evil plans being made, something dark emerging, or a change from good to bad.

From an album called Digitise on the theme of tech, science, thinking, breakthroughs, plotting and scheming. 

Influences include Atticus Ross' soundtrack for The Social Network & Trentemoller.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Strophic Music Publishing, February 2020.

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Something Brewing

Epic piano-led indie electronica with syncopated acoustic drums, fat synth bass and airy delay-rich synth chords and arps. A mood of hope, discovery and awakenings.

From an album called Digitise on the theme of tech, science, thinking, breakthroughs, plotting and scheming. 

Influences include Atticus Ross' soundtrack for The Social Network & Trentemoller.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Strophic Music Publishing, February 2020.

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Conscious Particle

Orchestral Strings, Massive Drums, Synth Arps and processed Trip-hop beats create a dramatically building and epic atmosphere, contrasting with quietly contemplative string moments. Futuristic and orchestral elements create a mood of plans or plots falling into place.

From an album  called Digitise on the theme of tech, science, thinking, breakthroughs, plotting and scheming. 

Influences include Atticus Ross' soundtrack for The Social Network & Trentemoller.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Strophic Music Publishing, February 2020.

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www.youtube.com/user/spanwise/
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Kismet

A nostalgic film music piece on the theme of returning home, for piano and strings.

Track 2 from 'Film Stories', a reflective & cinematic library music album.
https://search.upright-music.dk/track/8d5cbe92-bac7-4025-93c4-03670334c02f

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by North Star Music Publishing 1st June 2020.

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Film Stories

A Journey Home

Somewhere in the City

Warm, joyful romantic music on piano and strings.

Track 1 from 'Film Stories', a reflective & cinematic library music album.
https://search.upright-music.dk/track/15cacd2a-7220-46b3-b155-11f42765444b

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by North Star Music Publishing 1st June 2020.

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A Love Without Time

Romantic Movie

A glitchy piece of electronica written for a production album of 'Wrong Things'

Things going out of tune and time, things swerving and veering.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Arms Production Music, 2020.

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Diverge

Track 4 from 'Spatial Awareness' - a collection of minimal, gentle & ambient songs with lots of space. Good to float away to.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by North Star Music Publishing 1st June 2020.
https://search.upright-music.dk/track/b615ad19-eaff-4439-9bae-21d0fa637928

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Spatial Awareness

Forgotten Landscape

Distant Dimension

Final track from 'Spatial Awareness' - a collection of minimal, gentle & ambient songs with lots of space. Good to float away to.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by North Star Music Publishing 1st June 2020.

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Theme on a Reflection

Dark & dirty breaks with hints of India.

Written & performed by Anna Hetherington, released by Arms Production Music 2020

Karma Cycle

the official Soundcloud page of Anna Hetherington, a songwriter & composer based in Manchester.

Her music has been played on national and international tv, radio and online with credits including UNICEF, BBC Radio 4, BBC 2, Channel 4, Channel 5 and VICE.

Her writing is distinctive and varied, and ranging in style from cutting-edge electronica, ambient, rock and jazz to contemporary classical and orchestral.

She began songwriting from a young age, and would perform her songs live on vocals and guitar/piano in local establishments in her home town of Middlewich, Cheshire. Meanwhile she would record these early songs to an old 4-track tape recorder. In her teens she learnt the saxophone and as her tastes widened began playing in rock, funk and jazz bands. She later voyaged into electronic and experimental music and began computer-based composition.

Whilst studying music production at Leeds Conservatoire from 2003 she was a lead singer & saxophonist in Red Go Green Stop, a dance-indie band who performed regularly across the UK. After this Anna continued honing her skills through futher writing, performing and collaborating within the local scene in rock/electronica bands and as a solo artist.

Having obtained a PGCE at Huddersfield University in 2008 Anna went on to teach Music & Music Technology at schools and 6th Form colleges around Yorkshire and Manchester.

With an interest in the power of music to help people psychologically, Anna gained her Masters in Music Therapy in 2016 from Queen Margaret’s University in Edinburgh.

She is now based in Manchester where she performs, composes, teaches privately and works as a music therapist.
She regularly releases music for media (tv, radio and online) and is recording an album of original songs for release in the near future.