Compositions for Theatre & Film
Various scores, soundscapes and original compositions written for theatre, performance and film.
Music by Danny Romeo and James Christensen
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Arranged, performed and mixed by James Christensen.
FOLLOW ME
Follow Me was an interactive, site specific horror-comedy which followed the hapless crew of ‘Follow Me’: an amateur ghost-hunting YouTube show.
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I co-composed, arranged, performed and mixed the Main Theme for this fictional YouTube channel.
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Follow Me was presented by Swans Events in February 2022. Find out more here.
YOUNEWS
YouNews was an original piece of devised hybrid-digital performance, produced by Forest Sounds as part of UnShut festival in 2020. It followed the efforts of the dedicated, ‘alternative’ news network YouNews: dedicated to bringing you the content you want, and ONLY the content you want.
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I composed the main theme for the live-stream event. YouNews was subsequently developed into The Bump, and you can find further details here.
Composed, arranged, performed and mixed by James Christensen
Original melody and harmonies by Danny Romeo.
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Arranged, performed and mixed by James Christensen.
SOVEREIGN SONG
Presented by CrushRoom in conjunction with Colab Theatre, Sovereign Song was an original piece of interactive and immersive theatre. The piece imagined an alternative reality in which the neighbourhood of Elephant and Castle had officially seceded from the United Kingdom (ostensibly in order to remain in the EU and legalise marijuana).
Playing with the aesthetics of nationhood, jingoism, immigration policy and sovereignty-for-sale, Sovereign Song was a wildly energetic satire of the fraught ways in which our lives are warped and structured by systems outside of our control.
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I arranged, performed and mixed the new nation's official National Anthem. You can find out more about the show here.
RECOLLECTIONS
Recollections was a 2017 short-film written by Iryna Byelyayeva and directed by Declan Mulcahy. Meditative and intimate, the film was comprised of a series of impressionistic images, tracing formative memories in the writer's past that may have sculpted the person she is today.
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I wrote and performed the soundscape and score for the film.
Composed, arranged, performed and mixed by James Christensen
Composed, arranged, performed and mixed by James Christensen
‘The Nightmare’ features samples from Slave New Desart by Merzbow
‘Jeremy's Heart’ features samples from Jeremy by Pearl Jam
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‘Please Don't be Lonely’ is a setting of text adapted from Lally's Katz's dialogue.
The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy
The original music from No Such Theatre's production of The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy, by Lally Katz.
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Read more about the production – which I directed – here.