Tom Wheatley

AGON, a Venice prize-winning film by director Giulio Bertelli, is a visceral portrait of contemporary professional sports. Streaming worldwide exclusively on @mubi , the original soundtrack composed by @_tomwheatley_ is coming out on PAN soon. The first single ‘LUDOJ’ is out now! https://pan.lnk.to/AGON /en/pan_agon Giulio Bertelli’s AGON renders a unique view of competitive sport through a fictional Olympic Games, LUDOJ 2024. Mastered by Rashad Prize (International Federation of Film Critics) the film is a triptych of three female athletes preparing for Olympic competition, that conjures a fiction via the techniques of documentary. Wheatley’s soundtrack is the exacting ear to its exacting eye, his score reflects the film’s hyper-focus on the gesture and interiority of sports performance, acting as punctuation, mirror, and an extension of Bertelli’s film that embeds further connections between its themes and intentions.  Crucial for the soundtrack was a theme for the imagined Olympics, but LUDOJ is a non-place without nationality, and Olympic themes often take cue from national stereotypes. Wheatley’s LUDOJ jingle, and the sound bed in the cue LUDOJ (commentary) instead rendered a glassy flatness, reflective of the non-place in which the film happens, where we rarely see any identifying features of a landscape and instead see macro shots representative of the blinkered focus of the athletes, where we rarely see into any distance.   AGON premiered at Venice Film Festival 2025, was awarded the Luciano Sovena Award for Best Independent Production, and the FIPRESCI Award (International Federation of Film Critics). It is a MUBI/Match Factory production. credits Written & composed by Tom Wheatley Bagpipes by Harry Górski-Brown Percussion by Seijiro Murayama Cello by Ute Kanngiesser Saxophone by Jean-Luc Guionnet Feedback Synthesizer by Grundik Kasyansky Recorded by Matt Jaggar at Konk Studios, London Additional mixing by Matt Jaggar and Tommaso Barbaro Additional editing by Tommaso Barbaro Mastered by Rashad Becker

With @okkyung_lee & @billy_steiger last week at @cafeotodalston Video material @_yacum_

@okkyung_lee two night residency @cafeotodalston Friday trio Billy Steiger, OL, myself

AGON by Giulio Bertelli Premieres at @labiennale as part of @settimana_della_critica Opens in Italian cinemas 29th August @thematchfactory @first_artists_management

AGON by Giulio Bertelli Premiering in competition at @settimana_della_critica 29th August 2025 @labiennale @thematchfactory @first_artists_management Original score by Tom Wheatley, featuring: Harry Gorskí-Brown - bagpipes Jean-Luc Guionnet - saxophone Ute Kanngiesser - ‘cello Grundik Kasyansky - feedback synthesiser Seijiro Murayama - percussion Engineered by Matt Jaggar at KONK Studios

2 July 2025 seven plus one Sala Delle Cariatidi Palazzo Reale “Remo Salvadori” exhibition curated by @elena_tettamanti and @anto.soldaini . From 2nd of July, the work No’ si volta chi a stella è fisso (“Fixed Upon a Star One Turns Not”), will be set in the Palazzo Reale’s Sala Delle Cariatidi. For this occasion, the collective @tuttoquestosentire has been invited to develop a site-specific performance and sound installation. The musical work titled “seven plus one” is written for seven sound sources (double bass, cello, wind instruments, two voices, audio from footage, recorded pipe organ) and the space itself. performers @oliviasalvadori - voice @sandromussida - cello, pipe organ  @janhendrickse -winds @cobysey - voice @rebeccasalvadori - computer  @_tomwheatley_ - double bass  concept and direction @tuttoquestosentire music direction @sandromussida surround sound producer @daniele.fabris pipe organ recording Sandro Mussida, on a three-manuals organ by Cichi Organi at the Collegiata di San Martino, Pietrasanta, Lucca.  sound recordist @lorenzodalri production and management  @sannelola   partners @palazzorealemilano @eight_art_project @threesproductions

Building Site From @_danielblumberg_ Oscar-winning score for The Brutalist Axel Dörner, Simon Sieger, @michaelgriener and myself

@tennota_ & @rosaanschuetz Tornamented Walls release tour @meakusma — @silent.green #mayhemkbh @thegladcafe @theoldchurchn16 @babayagashutlondon #galerievornundoben

Tornamented Walls is the first result of a collaboration that began in 2022. The album is a freeze-frame of emergence: personal preparations prior and minor aside, the album was live and improvised. Rosa Anschütz sings, speaks, plays harmonium, and utilizes a looper as an instrument in itself. Her symbolic prose is at the heart of the music, emotionally direct yet haunted by a translucent potential of meaning. In lockstep with the voice, Tennota dissolve the dense rhythmic complexity of their recent work into a creeping mantra, the material interrogated until the patina of the sound is the music itself. Tornamented Walls floats on top of a wave of slow-motion techno influences, a deepened ambient and experimental perspective, and a feel of subtle and subdued lyricism not strictly limited to its vocal parts. It is a record of darkly ambient and abstracted techno pop, listening music to be played loud. More disenchanted than dark, it is confrontational through its fearless incorporation of a widely varying set of different states of mind. Mastering and cut by Rashad Becker Design by Meeuw releases April 18th, 2025 ———————————————————— Теnnota & Rosa Anschütz will be touring in April and stopping over in Eupen on April 18th for a concert night at the Galerie vorn und oben. Further on the bill that night will be Tristwch Y Fenywod. 14th Silent Green - Berlin 15th Mayhem - Copenhagen 16th Glad Cafe - Glasgow 17th The Old Church - London 18th Galerie Vorn und Oben - Eupen

Musical direction, performance, and co-composition with Andrea Salviero for Stringent Manners, a performance to mark GR10K SS25: Nine Pounds of Dead Landscape. @gr10k @nonphysical_____as @armatureglobale @cisanifrancesca @michael.delmas

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