Standing In Silence - Part 7

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.

Making blissful grooves to nurture the soul and dance ourselves to emotional freedom

Silence was born September 23 rd 1977 and to the 8 year-old age he draws near to the world of the music learning to play the guitar.  
He immediately starts later to play the electronic keyboard and to listen to the great composers of electronic music as J.M.Jarre, Vangelis, Alan Parsons..  
he starts to improve himself in the composition of electronic music and soundtracks, drawing benefit from him "teachings" of the listening of the music of his "teachers."  
In 2000 he decides to enroll in S.I.A.E to make public his works and, in 2001, he is rewarded for the best theatrical soundtrack within the awarding "Torre d'Argento" held in Sicily.   
In the last years it becomes some his own jobs producing and publishes the project "Shared Emotions".
He knows Christian Stefanoni and with him, with the name O-Zone, compose and produce the single "Planet of Silence".  
Some jobs are published in some compilations of the Fluida Records and the Gluon Music.   
He composes the soundtrack of the documentary "Veniero", that tells the history of the submergible homonym which the wreckage is found in the seas before Porto Palo (Sicily)
In 2009 he composes the original soundtrack of the film "Come Marionette", the second episode of the cases of the "Commissario Valenti" created by Mario Bruno.   
Public on iTunes the project "Shared Emotions" and contemporarily to the publication of "Sound of Electronic", in 2009, the Azzurra Music publishes the album "Silence plays Jean Michel Jarre", available on CD, on iTunes and on the various musical portals on internet. 
In 2010 Silence public VENIERO digital album, 9 tracks that were the soundtrack to the unforgettable documentary that tells the story of the Royal Submarine "Sebastiano Veniero." 
Also in 2010, "Silence plays Jarre" is distributed digitally and simultaneously the project "Sound of Elecronic", a collection of songs purely electronic sounds with industrial and experimental. 
The year 2011 saw the birth of one of the finest works of the digital age: "La Carezza di una Nuvola " which was released in digital and physical CD, Album of a certain caliber artistic output thanks to the collaboration of guitarist Stephen Locri (Mad Vintage Rock) and maximum Lafronte. To enrich the project was enough for the hand of the painter Carmen Gravagna, who produced the album cover. The year ends with the live Veniero held at the Officers' Club of the Navy Augusta (SR). 
The 2012 starts an artistic collaboration with Vince McStross, great guitarist from Catania, with whom he played the live Shared Emotions incorporated into the show organized by the "Medici in Vena" Catania was held January 4 at the Metropolitan Theater and July 15 Platamone at the Palace, where the proceeds were donated respectively by the Association ONLUS "BA.CO.DI.RA.ME" and Telethon. 
2013 saw the birth of "Chaos"! An album containing 12 tracks of electronic music and classical style fused dall'imparagonabile of Silence. The construction of the cover-art of Chaos was the hand of the talented katiusca Wholesale. Also: "September", an EP containing 4 versions eponymous dance track digital artist! 
2014 begins with a single photoManiac, the first project elettrodubstep Silence! The cover art was created by the photographer and artist Federica Loi.
June 10, 2015 : " born " on the iTunes album " Where are You ? " , The electronic project of Silence contains sound " glitch " , and EDM Prog Rock in 12 captive tracks that allow you to travel in a surreal fantasy world enriched by ' visual art created by talented Monia Foderà who made the cover- art inspired by the notes of Silence .

Lover of nature and good music, always open to new experiences, getting to know the world through music 