Sound Designer, composer
Jeremy Cullen (b. 1976) began playing the piano at the age of 6, and started composing at the age of 9. In 1993 he won the Westpac Young Composer's Competition, and in the same year he was awarded a Licentiate in Piano Performance from the Trinity College of Music (London).
While completing an honours degree in composition at Canterbury University he developed an interest in electroacoustic sound manipulation, which radically altered his approach to composition and led him to explore the borderline between sound and music in his work.
He moved to Wellington in 1999 after being offered a position as audio engineer at Marmalade Audio. By 2002, he had become senior sound designer and composer for the leading New Zealand studio.
His original music and sound design have been heard in film festivals around the world (from Venice, Italy to Houston, Texas), and in numerous award-winning plays, commercials, TV programmes and pop songs in New Zealand.
With a dark-edged but highly melodic style influenced by composers as eclectic as Liszt, Stravinsky, Schnittke and Glass, his compositional voice is perfectly suited to the film-score medium. By drawing on his experience in both composing and audio post-production, BLACKSPOT fulfils a long-held ambition to fully integrate musical score and sound design on a feature-length canvas.
He is currently working on a "micro-opera" with a well-known New Zealand writer.