Electronic/Action/Modern

Orchestral/Traditional

Comedy/Exciting/Quirky

Acoustic/Ambient/World

Extracts from the soundtrack for the 2013 film 'Tis Folly To Be Wise directed by Justin Spray as part of the Inspired by the Collection project in collaboration with the National Gallery.

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'Tis Folly To Be Wise

Travel beneath the seas to a long-lost mystical kingdom...

Set as a personal challenge to compose a 60-second cue in just 60 minutes.

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Journey to Atlantis

From 'A Deep Breath', an upcoming documentary about free diving directed by Justin Spray.

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A Deep Breath

Music pitch for an advert for a national bank.
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Magic Mum

Beneath the serene beauty of a sunny meadow lies a callous dystopia and a battle to the death...
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Contrast

When the Grim Reaper comes to a remote town in the American Wild West, he finds his latest target to be quite the handful...

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A Million Ways (Not) To Die In The West

Tense cue for a modern indie thriller that begins with suspense and builds to a powerful finish.

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Discovering the Truth

Excerpts from the soundtrack for a short animation comedy about an trainee alien who's trying to work out how to abduct people (not entirely successfully).

Recorded with the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra in the college's famous Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, conducted by Alastair King (Shrek, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey).

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Lifted

Rescoring of the chase scene in 'The Boxtrolls' (2014) - set as a challenge by the film's original composer, Dario Marianelli.

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Escape from the Exterminators

Emma is an inanimate character in a pop-up book, but when she suddenly comes to life she discovers that her paperback world is full of wondrous things...

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Flip

Rescoring of the Shanghai skyscraper scene from Skyfall (2012).

Bond tails Patrice, a hit man, in Shanghai - as the assassin falls to his death 007 suddenly notices a mysterious woman observing him from the opposite window...

This 7-minute cue has been split into five separate files to make it easier to navigate: https://soundcloud.com/davidallencomposer/sets/skyfall-shanghai-skyscraper-scene

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Skyfall - The Bond Girl/Gathering Intelligence (5/5)

Rescoring of the Shanghai skyscraper scene from Skyfall (2012).

Bond tails Patrice, a hit man, in Shanghai - 007's cover is suddenly blown and the assassin attacks him, resulting in a claustrophobic fist-fight that ends with Bond dropping Patrice out of the broken window...

This 7-minute cue has been split into five separate files to make it easier to navigate: https://soundcloud.com/davidallencomposer/sets/skyfall-shanghai-skyscraper-scene

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Skyfall - Silhouette Fight (4/5)

Rescoring of the Shanghai skyscraper scene from Skyfall (2012).

Bond tails Patrice, a hit man, in Shanghai - running to grab the underside of the elevator, 007 follows the assassin to the top of the skyscraper and stealthily observes as he sets up to perform his latest hit...

This 7-minute cue has been split into five separate files to make it easier to navigate: https://soundcloud.com/davidallencomposer/sets/skyfall-shanghai-skyscraper-scene

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Skyfall - Elevator Ride/Stalking the Assassin (3/5)

Rescoring of the Shanghai skyscraper scene from Skyfall (2012).

Bond tails Patrice, a hit man, in Shanghai - tracking him cautiously and discreetly through the lower floors of a modern skyscraper while passing the bodies of dead guards...

This 7-minute cue has been split into five separate files to make it easier to navigate: https://soundcloud.com/davidallencomposer/sets/skyfall-shanghai-skyscraper-scene

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Skyfall - Time for Action (2/5)

Rescoring of the Shanghai skyscraper scene from Skyfall (2012).

Bond tails Patrice, a hit man, in Shanghai - observing him from a distance as he enters a skyscraper with a suspicious package...

This 7-minute cue has been split into five separate files to make it easier to navigate: https://soundcloud.com/davidallencomposer/sets/skyfall-shanghai-skyscraper-scene

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Skyfall - Bond Prepares (1/5)

From the modern dance film 'An Allegory of Love', directed by Kateryna Zabulonska, which depicts a relationship from meeting, to attraction, intimacy, and rejection.

Two strangers, naked except for body paints, engage in a sensual dance, leaving colourful impressions upon each other. The dance becomes more passionate until one suddenly breaks away, shocked by how different they look now, leaving the other alone and forever changed.

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(Photo credit: 'Step Up')

Ecstasy of Love

Film music showreel for David Allen, an award-winning music composer based in the London area.

Video showreel: http://davidallencomposer.com/media

David composes for orchestras, electronics, synthesisers, choirs and electroacoustic ensembles and has composed for dramas, documentaries, adverts and animations. For details on how to work with him please get in touch via http://davidallencomposer.com.

Demo Reel

Soundtrack selections from 'Wild Side' (2016), directed by Heikki Simppula.

Two Finnish friends embark on an adventure into a mysterious forest in order to tackle the difficulties of growing up - and of trolls...

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The Wild Side

Wild Side - Something Wild This Way Comes

Wild Side - Twilight/The Cave

Wild Side - It's a Kind of Magic

Wild Side - Into the Woods

Wild Side - The Wild Side

Live concert recording of the premiere of 'There Is No Rose', performed on 31st October 2015 by The National Youth Chamber Choir of Great Britain, directed by Ben Parry, at the Grand Concert of the Malta International Choir Festival 2015.

The premiere performance was in honour of the piece winning the 1st Girolamo Abos International Composition Competition at the festival.

Sheet music can be purchased from: http://davidallencomposer.com/shop

"There is no rose of such virtue,
As is the rose that bare Jesu.
Alleluia.

"For in this rose contained was
Heaven and earth in little space;
Res miranda.

"By that rose we may well see
That he is God in persons three,
Pari forma.

"The angels sungen the shepherds to:
Gloria in excelsis Deo:
Gaudeamus.

"Leave we all this worldly mirth,
And follow we this joyful birth;
Transeamus."
 - Anonymous, c. 1420

There Is No Rose

Organ postlude based on the hymn tune Old Hundredth ("All people that on earth do dwell"), in the style of a Carillon Sortie, by David Allen. Performed by the composer.

Composed on Easter Tuesday 18/4/2017 in honour of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, and premiered at Evensong at St John's College, Oxford, on Trinity Sunday 11/6/2017.

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Carillon Sortie on Old Hundredth

Railway Redemption: Main Titles

Railway Redemption: The Journey Continues

Soundtrack for "Dream Land", a short film directed by Sherice Griffiths for the Straight 8 film challenge.

An elderly couple relive the memories of their youth as they remember the fairground where their love first began.

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Dream Land

My entry for the Westworld Scoring Competition 2020. Many thanks to HBO, Spitfire Audio, and the Westworld team for running such an amazing contest.

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/07EF6L7r0zc

The original scene, as broadcast on HBO, was largely accompanied by Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries", as one of the characters is suffering the effects of a drug that makes him experience the chase as if he's in an adrenaline-fuelled action movie, and so I opted to approach the scene as if the Wagner had been provided as a temp track by the producers both to indicate the desired style/genre and for planning the overall narrative structure of the score.

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Libraries used: Arturia V Collection (ARP 2600 Jup-8, Modular, Prophet); East West Hollywood Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra, Stormdrum 2 & 3; Omnisphere 2; Spitfire Audio Albion Neo, Albion Tundra, LABS (Strings & Granular Whalesong).

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Westworld Scoring Competition 2020

Passacaglia and Fugue for organ solo by David Allen on the Lutheran chorale 'Aus der Tiefe' (also known as 'Heinlein'), commonly used for the Lenten hymn 'Forty Days and Forty Nights'.

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Passacaglia and Fugue for Organ (on 40 Days & 40 Nights)

David Allen is an award-winning composer of film, choral, and concert music, who works in a variety of styles & genres for a wide range of musical projects.

Orchestral, electronic, acoustic, synthesisers, choral, voice, sound effects.

Winner: Best Score - Screentest 2017
Winner: Girolamo Abos Composition Prize 2015
Nominated: WDR Filmscore Award 2015

MMus Comp. for Screen - Royal College of Music
MA Music - University of Oxford

Associate of the Royal College of Organists

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Showreel: http://davidallencomposer.com/media

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