SCORING & COMPOSING

Sam is a composer and arranger at heart, and has been making his foray into composition for picture over the past couple of years. Diverse in experience and interests, he composes music in idioms ranging from orchestral to chiptune, contemporary R&B to synth-ambient. He composed the score for a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) documentary for David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things program called “Nature’s Big Year”, which was released in late 2021 and won the Golden Sheaf Award in 2022 for Best Nature, Science & Technology Documentary. Sam is also the house composer for Canadian film production team Grim Productions, and has contributed the score to two short films directed by Victor Oly. The first of which, Pink Rabbit, was nominated in South Korea’s Bucheon International Film Festival Short Film Program, and the second, The Whipping Boy, premiered at the 2024 Canadian Film Fest. Sam also worked with a major Japanese video game company throughout the last half of 2023 to contribute several arrangements to a title that will be released in early 2025 (details to follow).

Below is a collection of compositions written between 2020 and 2024.

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kitsuna

Kitsuna is Sam’s entirely self-produced artist project. He combines his wide-ranging musical influences into a unique concoction where hints of 80s R&B, fusion, shoegaze pop, and soundtrack music can be heard. Kitsuna’s current catalogue includes two EPs and one full-length album, with a smattering of standalone single releases. A collection of Kitsuna’s music can be found below.

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moonhead

Moonhead was a 6-piece R&B band that Sam put together in his late teen years. Consisting entirely of talented young musicians from his native Toronto, he wanted to pay homage to R&B and fusion music of the 70s and 80s a la Prince, Steely Dan and more. Sam served as the group’s writer, arranger, lead vocalist and keyboardist.