many dear friends and talented artists
have helped me along the way
(see bio below)
bringing much life to my work,
and i am grateful for it.
thank you all...
you know who you are!
Influences
John Barry, Steve Reich, Ennio Morricone, Bach, Peter Gabriel, Michael Hedges, George Winston, John Williams, James Horner, Massive Attack, Reznor, Mickey Hart, Paul Seymour, Jerry Goldsmith, Amon Tobin
love the works of: Thomas Tallis, Alan Silvestri, Maurice Jarre, Bruno Coulais, Gabriel Yared, Thomas Newman, Francesca DiGiovanna, Michael Stearns, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon, John Lennon, Rickie Lee Jones, Eno, Beck, Sigur Ros, John Murphy, Howard Shore, James Newton Howard, Craig Armstrong, Stravinsky
i'd say my greatest "Life inspirations" would be (in order of appearance) Tom Robbins, Joseph Campbell, Einstein, Gurdjieff and Menlo MacFarlane
Sounds Like
Select tracks from the upcoming hover release "Possible Bliss", composed + produced by Billy:
^ The theatrical trailer for Islander, now available on DVD. All the music you'll hear is straight from the score (a rarity nowadays). What a joy it was to score this fine dramatic film, and one that features one of my favorite actors, Philip Baker Hall (The Insider, Boogie Nights, Magnolia).
^ The first film of TOTALITY, a series of time-lapse films of total solar eclipses filmed in exotic locations around the world. Shot from under a Divi-divi tree in Paraguana, Venezuela, the key was getting the eclipse to occur in the "hole" with no branches. This was my first experience scoring music to my own imagery.
^ This solar eclipse was shot on location at the ancient Apollo Temple in Side, Turkey. In this short you'll witness an entire day whiz by from sunrise to sunset, with the sun fully eclipsing above the temple around mid-day. Time seems to just stand still during totality, and so I tried to enhance that sensation within this score.
^ This score was the "runner up" for the new LionsGate "Heroic Logo". It wasn't easy saying goodbye to this one! But I'm happy to add that my score for their "Horror Logo" (below) did go final and is currently playing in front of about 15 LionsGate horror/thriller films.
^ What cool imagery to score... in fact I did many demos for this. This mix is my favorite, featuring Irina Bjorklund on the saw. She's an absolute natural...
^ This global awareness PSA, produced by the Earth Communications Office (ECO), focuses on the delicate relationship between life on Earth and its oceans. Translated into 13 languages, "Hidden City" was released in theaters and on television worldwide. It was quite an honor to be involved with such a project.
Directed by Larry Kopald
Music by Billy Mallery
Narrated by Gene Hackman (television) and Hector Elizondo (theatrical)
^ This one was incredibly fun for me (I love space stuff). They wanted the score to be epic, and that it contain sound and themes from the actual game (main HALO theme by Marty O'Donnell).
^ A personal favorite... now playing in theaters and on DVD. I call it "sound music". :)
Directed by John Berlin, Devastudios
Music/Sound Design by Billy Mallery
(ROGUE Pictures is a division of FOCUS Features)
BIO:
"Let the film score itself" is the motto of composer Billy Mallery, who started playing piano at the age of five, and began to compose original music at twelve. After studying music composition and film/tv production at Syracuse University, he started his career working with composer Jonathan Elias and his company where he landed his first commercial score (Gallo Wine), performed by a 60 piece orchestra. Mallery has since composed original scores for such accounts as Levis, Nike, Got Milk?, BMW, Sony and Pepsi, for which he received a CLIO Award for original music. Many years of scoring commercials has led him to work with such directors as David Fincher, Michael Bay, Janusz Kaminski, David LaChapelle, Mark Pellington, Joe Pytka and Zack Snyder.
Billy has also composed numerous corporate logo scores including XBOX Sports (XSN), SCI-FI Channel, ROGUE Pictures (a division of FOCUS Features) and most recently, one of the new LIONSGATE logos released last year.
The Earth Communications Office (ECO) chose Mallery to compose the score for their production Hidden City, narrated by Gene Hackman and Hector Elizondo. Translated into 13 languages, this global PSA focusing on Earth's oceans was released in theaters and on television around the world. Other composers involved with films by ECO include Hans Zimmer (The Power of One, Island Home), Jonathan Elias (Mother) and Louis Armstrong, featuring his song "What a Wonderful World" (performed by Willie Nelson).
His first dramatic film project was Crossing Over, written and directed by Wayne Kramer (The Cooler), followed by Dos Corazones, directed by the renowned acting coach Larry Moss. Billy's more recent feature films include Devil's Highway (starring Shane Brolly and Natassia Malthe) and Islander, featuring Amy Jo Johnson and Philip Baker Hall (now available on DVD).
One of his unique qualities as a composer is that he is also a sound designer, and frequently merges music with sound within his scores. Billy was recently invited to speak at UCLA's Extension Program focusing on music and sound design for television and film.
Billy is currently engaged in directing a unique film project: capturing total solar eclipses using time-elapsed photography, as well as composing the scores for each piece (above). He sees this as a lifelong project, hoping to experience and film as many eclipses as possible and then merge them all together into a compilation he calls Totality.
Between film projects Mallery is continuously developing his record project hover, which he describes as a "euphoric groove exploration". The next work, titled "Possible Bliss", is due to be released this year.
