Music exquisitely composed to picture has a transformative quality that can elevate story, enthrall and captivate, confound and bewitch.
It can boldly lead the viewer to new and challenging territory, or comfort them with familiarity.
It's exciting, and why I love what I do...
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Brett Aplin is an ARIA nominated, AFI/AACTA and APRA Screen Music Award winning screen composer with acclaimed and diverse credits across prime-time drama, documentary, feature film and children’s television.
He has worked with some of the very best screen practitioners writing across a variety of genres, his music having been broadcast locally on ABC1, SBS, Network Ten, Channel 7, STAN and internationally on Netflix, Disney+, STARZ, Acorn TV, BBC, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, Animal Planet, The History Channel, ZDF, and Discovery among others.
He has been nominated for 13 APRA Australian Screen Music Awards, winning “Best Music for a Documentary” for Tiger Dynasty (2012) and “Best Music for a Short Film” for Lucy Wants to Kill Herself (2009). He has also been awarded an Australian Film Institute (now AACTA) Award for his work on Rare Chicken Rescue (2008), received an AFI nomination for his contribution to the acclaimed documentary A Thousand Encores: the Ballets Russes in Australia (2010), and an AACTA nomination for James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D (2014). He also picked up an ARIA nomination for his stunning soundtrack to the STAN feature documentary No Mercy, No Remorse in 2022, and a second consecutive ARIA nomination for Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey this year…
Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Best Original Soundtrack
ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2023)No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)
Best Original Soundtrack
ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2022)The Bureau of Magical Things – Season 2
Best Music for Children’s Programming
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)
Best Soundtrack Album
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)
Best Music for a Documentary
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – series 2
Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2021)Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
Best Music for a Mini-series or Telemovie
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)The Bureau of Magical Things
Best Television Theme
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)The Bureau of Magical Things - Series 1
Best Music for Children’s Television
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)Mako Mermaids – Series 3
Best Music for Children’s Television
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2016)James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D
Best Original Music Score for Documentary
AACTA AWARD
Nominee (2014)Mako Mermaids – Series 1
Best Music for Children’s Television
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2014)Tiger Dynasty
Best Music for a Documentary
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2012)A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in Australia
Best Sound for a Documentary
AFI AWARD
Nominee (2010)Lucy Wants to Kill Herself
Best Music for a Short Film
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2009)Rare Chicken Rescue
Best Sound in a Documentary
AFI AWARD
Winner (2008)Secrets of the Forbidden City
Best Music in a Documentary
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2008)The Floating Brothel
Best Music in a Documentary
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2007)Mako Mermaids – Series 3
Best Music for Children’s Television
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2016)James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D
Best Original Music Score for Documentary
AACTA AWARD
Nominee (2014)Mako Mermaids – Series 1
Best Music for Children’s Television
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2014)Tiger Dynasty
Best Music for a Documentary
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2012)A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in Australia
Best Sound for a Documentary
AFI AWARD
Nominee (2010)Lucy Wants to Kill Herself
Best Music for a Short Film
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2009)Rare Chicken Rescue
Best Sound in a Documentary
AFI AWARD
Winner (2008)Secrets of the Forbidden City
Best Music in a Documentary
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2008)The Floating Brothel
Best Music in a Documentary
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2007)Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Best Original Soundtrack
ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2023)No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)
Best Original Soundtrack
ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2022)The Bureau of Magical Things – Season 2
Best Music for Children’s Programming
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)
Best Soundtrack Album
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)
Best Music for a Documentary
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – series 2
Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2021)Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
Best Music for a Mini-series or Telemovie
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)The Bureau of Magical Things
Best Television Theme
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)The Bureau of Magical Things - Series 1
Best Music for Children’s Television
APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)Latest News...
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AACTA Award nomination for Splice Here!
So this happened which is pretty awesome
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ARIA Award nomination for our soundtrack to ‘Splice Here’!
I'm exctied to have picked up an ARIA Award nomination in the category 'Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album' for our soundtrack for Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey. I composed this score with Burkhard Dallwitz for director Rob
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by Brett
Brand Bollywood Downunder Trailer
So we at Zeitgeist Music recently worked on the feature documentary Brand Bollywood Downunder, which explores "the successes and failures of Bollywood’s rise as a serious subculture in Australia, and around the world. See past the myths and legends that
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Splice Here Soundtrack review
Check our this fabulous review from Movie Music International for our soundtrack to the feature documentary Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey. Thanks Jon! To read the review in full click here. "It’s a score that will wow you from the
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AACTA Award nomination for Splice Here!
So this happened which is pretty awesome
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ARIA Award nomination for our soundtrack to ‘Splice Here’!
I'm exctied to have picked up an ARIA Award nomination in the category 'Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album' for our soundtrack for Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey. I composed this score with Burkhard Dallwitz for director Rob
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by Brett
Brand Bollywood Downunder Trailer
So we at Zeitgeist Music recently worked on the feature documentary Brand Bollywood Downunder, which explores "the successes and failures of Bollywood’s rise as a serious subculture in Australia, and around the world. See past the myths and legends that