Theme Music for Campside Media's hit "WILD BOYS" Podcast

Wild Boys - THEME

Theme music for USA Today's "THE CITY, Season 2: Reno"

USA Today - The City, Reno - Suns Set, Psychedelic Take

A soundtrack to Lemonada Media's "Discarded," an investigation into how plastics have damaged our environment and our health.

Discarded: DARKNESS

Theme music to the podcast "What Now? with Trevor Noah" from Spotify and Pineapple Studios. Composed by Hannis Brown

What Now? with Trevor Noah (THEME)

Recorded live by The Free Sound Ahnsomble February 7, 2015 at the Cell Theatre in Manhattan.

The People (Jerks) Downstairs

Ominous, Soundtrack. Theme for Season 3 of the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast STOLEN.

STOLEN: Theme for Season 3 (Reworking of Original by Emma Munger)

Apple Original Podcast: Magnificent Jerk (Selections from Original Soundtrack)

Magnificent Jerk: Moving Through A Day

Magnificent Jerk: Key Soul

Rubin Museum: AWAKEN (Theme)

Music for Jennette McCurdy's podcast "Hard Feelings"

Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy: VOWELS

Theme music for the podcast "The Anthropocene Reviewed" from John Green, Complexly, and WNYC

The Anthropocene Reviewed (THEME)

Music from the podcast "Will Be Wild" from Pineapple St Studios and Wondery

Will Be Wild: Dark Theme

Will Be Wild - Explainer

Will Be Wild - Vinyl

Will Be Wild - Political Funhouse

Commissioned and performed by the ETHEL string quartet. Composed by Hannis Brown.

Exercises In Breathing (for ETHEL)

This was commissioned by Barneys New York for their 2015 Holiday Windows. The piece accompanies a massive castle built entirely of ice, available for viewing through January 1, 2016. 

http://thewindow.barneys.com/holiday-madison-avenue-windows-2015-ice-castles/

Ice Castles

Musical realizations of data tables for WNYC's Note to Self. Music by Hannis Brown.

Dear Data: Giorgia Complaints

Dear Data: Giorgia Thank You

Dear Data: Stefani Thank You

An arrangement of the theme for WNYC's 'Death, Sex & Money' podcast for their episode on porn addiction. The original theme was composed by The Reverend John Delore and Steve Lewis. Fernando Arruda is cheesing up the soprano saxophone. Listen to the full episode: http://www.wnyc.org/story/porn-death-sex-money

Death, Sex and Money: "Lets Talk About Porn"

Theme song to the WNYC Newsroom podcast "United States of Anxiety: Culture Wars." 

Music composed by Hannis Brown.

The United States of Anxiety: Culture Wars

The City: Traffic Layers

A new song inspired by anxiety dreams. This isn't yet in it's final forms--live horns and a rhythm section will be overdubbed.

Above the House

A sampling of music from my albums "Oh Ah Ee" and "Severe Insomnia" as well as selected collaborations with fellow musicians and filmmakers.

Junk Manipulated

Oh Ah Ee

Alice's Attic

Ahhhhhhhhh

Eh Uh Eh

Music for The Deal podcast from Middlebury College. https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/news/new-podcast-series-iran-nuclear-deal-launches

The Nuclear Deal: End Theme

The theme song for "Aqua Net and Funyuns", a podcast opera from Experiments in Opera. https://experimentsinopera.com/portfolio-item/aquanet/

Aqua Net And Funyuns: Theme

I’m Hannis Brown, a composer who writes for films and multimedia projects, the concert hall and for multiple layers of myself. 

Recent commissions and honors include a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist distinction for Pineapple Street Studio's Hysterical, a 2022 du-Pont Columbia award and NAACP Image Award for The History Channel and WNYC's Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, 2019 du-Pont Columbia Awards for the New York Public Radio podcasts Trump, Inc and Caught, a 2015 Peabody Award for work on the podcast Meet the Composer, and music for ETHEL string quartet.

Projects on the horizon include new collaborations with John Hopkins IDeas Lab, Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions, The BBC, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, KCRW’s Bodies podcast and Pineapple Media. As of Fall 2023, I'm also an adjunct professor of Sound Design at New York University.

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