This is a ambient soundtrack created for a multimedia installation in an eyewear retail store. The music was commissioned to specifically put the customer in a subliminally relaxed and positive state of mind and create a relaxing oasis away from the busy CBD street noise. 
Contrasting music was written for the stores daytime state and night time state. Lighting design was sync'd to the music for an immersive viewer experience.
The store, featuring the full 25 min ambient soundtrack and night time state electro dance music won best retail store at the Sydney Design Awards 2014

Clear Beginning- Ambient music for a Multimedia Installation

This is an excerpt of TROPFEST 2012 finalist film MIn Min written and directed by Matt Bird. 
This original music score excerpt by Jared Underwood featuring bass clarinet, piano and metal car parts and chains was recorded in the studio with an improvisatory approach. 

Min Min- TropFest 2012 short film - score excerpt

This is an excerpt from the original score composed by Jared Underwood for the 2013 TROPFEST finalist film TASER written & directed Matt Bird. 
This score features on the Violin long time collaborator and friend Naomi Radom. 

TASER - TropFest 2013 short film - score excerpt

This is an original track written by Jared for his band CODA that he was a member of.  
CODA is an instrumental cinematic electronic rock band that Jared was a founding member of for 12 years. The band was ARIA nominees twice.  In that time Jared co-wrote with the other band members 2 albums and an EP. They played numerous festivals including - Vivid, The Sydney Festival, Adelaide festival, Woodford, Belengen Global Carnival, Cockatoo island festival, The big day out, java Jazz (Indonesia) and more. 

Past The Moon- original music from Jared's band CODA

Original music composed by Jared Underwood- underscore music for MIDAS Australia wide campaign. 

MIDAS 30 Sec TVC

This is a 3 min audio showreel featuring some of Jared Underwoods original music written for Australian commercial network TV series The Mole - broadcast in 2013. 

The Mole TV series music showreel playlist

This is Jared Underwood'sthe winning score for TropSCore 2013. Tropscore is a film composition competition where entrants compose music to the one film. This year the film was called The Exchange by Matt Bird. 
Jared performed his winning score on the vibraphone and toy piano live to picture in front of the 80,000 audience in the Domain at Sydney. 

2013 Winner of TROPSCORE for The Exchange

Original music for Nulon TVC Australia wide campaign composed, recorded and mixed by underscore music- Jared Underwood


Edit used - NulonTVC Showreel Slatemaster

Nulon Motor Oil TVC Australia

Jared Underwood composed and performed this cue for a love scene in a forthcoming film.

Love Scene - cue from an un-released film

This is a compilation of some original music cues composed by Jared Underwood from a forthcoming Australian Horror film.

edit - Manifestation Showreel Playlist Slatemaster

Horror film -score excerpts

Natational Geographic Documentary. Episode 6. Feat Photographer :Richard I’Anson
Series created, directed and filmed by Abraham Joffe for Canon and Nat Geo Channel.
Jared composed all the music for Episode 6 of the documentary series sharing the composition duties with friend and composer Blair Joscelyn who composed the music for all other episodes in the 6 part series. 

This 3 min edit features excerpts from the 23 min adventure travel photography documentary. All music composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Jared Underwood. 

This was an exciting project for Jared to work on. The captivating scenery shot in Tibet, The Himalayas, and India was a joy to compose music to. It required Jared to musically underscore the photographer’s journey and challenges in dramatic & adventurous locations. The score needed to enhance the viewer’s emotional connection with the photographer on his journey to get the ultimate photo. The music also had to be sympathetic to the geographical landscapes and cultural rituals that are the subject of the documentary’s featured photographer Richard I’Anson. 
Jared drew upon his extensive knowledge and practical musical skills as a percussionist to underscore a large section of the documentary that featured an exuberant street festival, The festival of Colours, in Vrindavan, India. 

The 6 part series presented by CANON and National Geographic aired on Foxtel Australia and New Zealand in May/June 2015.

National Geographic doco 'Tales by Light' score excerpts

This track written/recorded/produced by Jared in Sydney. It features Tenor Sax by Mathew Ottignon. It was mixed by Peret Mao who did wonderful things to it in the mix. 
It has not been released yet... 

The Cut - Downbeat Electronica. feat Matt Ottignon -Sax

This is an original composition by Jared Underwood for chamber orchestra. 
The piece was written, and recorded while he was studying film music at AFTRS in 2012. An ensemble of 16 session musicians, mostly string players and one french horn was used. It was conducted by Edward Primrose. 
It was recorded at TrackDown scoring stage in Fox Studios Sydney. 

Take Flight - Chamber Orchestra recording

This is a audio teaser featuring some excerpts of cinematic, subtle and melodic style original music compositions by Jared Underwood that were used in short films and/or TV. 

Cinematic Melodic showreel

 Jared Underwood is an award winning composer and musician. Since graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as a classical percussionist, he has been creatively engaged in a wide variety of musical and artistic collaborations with film makers, fashion designers, artists, contemporary dancers, bands and musicians. In 2012, Jared completed a Graduate Certificate in Screen Music at AFTRS and is now pursuing a career in film music composition.

Writing under the name BATTERIE (his solo electronica act) he recently wrote the complete game soundtrack for iphone game OTTTD released on the App store May 2014. 

Jared was the 2013 winner of TropScore a film score competition part of TropFest. There were 900 entries to the competition and Jared performed his score live to picture at the film festival to an audience of 80,000 people. 
Jared won ‘best original score’ in TROPFEST  2011- ‘The worlds biggest short film festival’  for the film A Desperate Deed by director Matt Bird. 
In June 2011 Jared won the Jury choice gold medal at the Park City Film Music Festival (Utah -USA) for his score to ‘Cold Sore’ also by director Matt Bird. 

As a member of Sydney cinematic pop band CODA for 12 years, CODA have been twice nominated for an ARIA award. Coda’s music has also been used for TV and Film, one recent film being ‘Red Hill’. and Jared was a member of Sydney post rock band PROP whose members Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton went on to form The Presets. 

As a collaborating musician Jared has worked in the studio along side –  Stefan Skarbek (Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse), Daniel Johns (SilverChair), Luke Steele (Empire Of The Sun), Hugo Race (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Antony Partos (composer for film Animal Kingdom), Jono Ma (Los Valentinos), Grafton Primary, The Herd, Melanie Paine (Nuvelle Vague). 

As a live performer Jared has played with - The Whitlams, Grafton Primary, Delta Goodrem, Brian McFadden, Lovers Electric, King Tide, Lenka, Ian Moss, The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, The Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, Jenny Morris, The McClymonts, Jimmy Little. 







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