Taken from the album 'A Quiet Divide' - http://hyperurl.co/aquietdivide 

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A Quiet Divide

Between Us And The Dying Starlight

Composer from Wellington, New Zealand www.rhiansheehan.com

http://rhiansheehan.bandcamp.com/

Rhian Sheehan is an award-winning music producer and screen composer from New Zealand. Known for his fusion of atmospheric-post-rock with electronic and chamber music, he has released 6 albums and 2 EP’s on Loop Recordings (NZ/Aus), Darla (US), Preco (Japan). His 2013 release Stories From Elsewhere has received much praise; renowned US reviewer John Diliberto (Echoes) calling it “a modern ambient chamber music masterpiece of quietly epic dimensions". His 2018 album, A Quiet Divide, is his most orchestral album to date, merging chamber strings & piano, with emotionally charged cinematic post-rock atmospheres. Releasing the album alongside a 6 date audiovisual live tour around New Zealand, the album reached no.2 on the NZ Top 20.
"A Quiet Divide is an album that swallows you whole, and sends you out the other side a lighter, calmer version of yourself." - Sunday Star Times
His work as a screen composer is diverse, actively writing scores for a wide variety of film, television, documentary, advertising, multi-media exhibits, and 360o Fulldome Planetarium dome show projects around the world, having worked on projects featuring luminaries Andy Serkis, David Tennant, Tim Allen, Martin Scorsese, Rupert Grint, and Jared Leto.  He has written music featured on many notable TV shows and channels, including Top Gear (UK), the hit HBO series Silicon Valley, BBC Horizon, CNN, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Netflix, America's Got Talent, and has written music featured during The US Super Bowl, and The Academy Awards.
Sheehan has composed music for various multimedia installations and exhibits around the world, including UK's National Space Centre, The Kennedy Space Center, London’s Natural History Museum, Ferrari World, World of WearableArt, and Weta Workshop. His score for the 12-part prime-time series The Cult won him a Qantas Film & TV Award (Best original music in a TV series), and he also wrote the score for the Emmy Award winning series Reservoir Hill. Sheehan’s music was used extensively during NBC’s prime-time coverage of the 2012 London Olympics, and he has written music featured in a variety of commercials, including spots for Google, Nike, GoPro, American Express, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Facebook. He has written for Hans Zimmer's custom music company Bleeding Fingers and Extreme Music. Sheehan has scored music for the acclaimed films Belief: The possession of Janet Moses and Stray, and more recently scored the mixed-reality AR steampunk inspired robot shooting game, Dr. Grordbort Invaders, produced by Magic Leap & Weta Workshop (Peter Jackson & Richard Taylor's award-winning special effects and prop company).
He has written scores for numerous UK and US produced 360o Fulldome 3D Planetarium shows, most notably, We Are Astronomers, We Are Aliens, We Are Stars (for which he was awarded Best Original Score at the Fiske Planetarium Awards), and Back To The Moon For Good, which was produced by Google XPRIZE, the UK National Space Centre, and Robert K. Weiss (producer of The Blues Brothers). Narrated by Tim Allen (Toy Story), Back To The Moon For Good is one of the most popular and watched Planetarium Dome shows ever made; having screened in over 450 Planetariums around the world.

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth." - G. Orwell, 1984

Born to inspire, motivate, and encourage the world around me. I pray that all who hear's the sound of my voice/music/instrumentals is liberated from the cares and burdens of the world around them.

He is currently a composer and filmmaker working in Hokkaido, Japan, and his main genre is post-classical music.

He studied architectural design at university and later worked in a design office, designing museums and music halls. Influenced by the VJ culture that started to emerge around 2000 due to the CG and multimedia art that he had been working on since his university days, he started his own video production company after working on video works for club music.
In 2003, he started releasing ambient and downtempo music under the name of "and/or" on labels in France, Portugal, and other European countries.As his video production company started to take off, he decided to take a break from his artistic activities for a while to concentrate on his career as a manager.In the business world, he produced a photo app that was one of the top 3 free apps on the app store in the Japanese market.
While continuing to study music theory and composition on his own while working on his business, he will resume his creative activities around 2019 and start releasing music under his own name in 2021.
At the same time, he is currently planning to create video works and applications for his musical works.

Musically, he is heavily influenced not only by Romantic and modern composers, but also by minimalist music and contemporary film music, while his background is in architectural design, which he studied.
 The aesthetics of structure and pattern, and the patterns of light and shadow, their minute changes, and unexpected changes, etc., have been experimentally incorporated into a new style that incorporates not only nature and the environment, but also generative elements made possible by new computer AI and simulation technology.
 In this way, he seeks to expand the dynamism and possibilities of time-based arts such as music and video.

He seeks to create music that combines the structural beauty of Western music with the interstitial aesthetics of the Eastern and Zen worldviews, and the harmony and fusion of nature and the environment. 
While pursuing a simple, piano-based style of music, he is creating the next generation of classical music that is not bound by the format of the context of instruments such as strings and synths.　

He specializes in beautiful and sentimental music, and aspires to provide the world with an environment where tranquility, healing, and relaxation can be obtained through musical content.

A dweller on the streams, handy the confluence of MIXCLOUD SOUNDCLOUD & SLEEPBOT, I make occasional day trips to AMBIENTBLOGnet ACL A_L ASIP ASP BC CAMP DISQUIET DREAMSCENESnl E&D FS HEADPHONECOMMUTEcom LSR PC RADIO-RETHINK RESONANCE-FM SEB SF10-33 SOATC TIMJ TSC UBU UT WAAG & WFMU.

Alex Bervoets' music reflects his dominant state of mind. Dreamy, head in the clouds, a bit of melancoly, basically a delicate combination between bitter and sweet, or as someone here on Soundcloud put it : "gladness interlaced within a thread of melancholic sadness".