Adrian Ellis @aelliscomposer and I are grateful to be submitted for the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards for our work on The Legacy of Cloudy Falls.
We’d like to share a brief look as we pull back the curtain on our scoring process…
Endless thanks to Nick Butler @nick_butler8 for bringing us on board!
If the work resonates, we’d appreciate your vote. First round closes February 12.
Video filmed and edited by Jade Chittock @kiwitography.ca
New tune! "Stick Whack Boom Yes" is out on all streaming platforms today. A spastic high-octane collision of progressive metal and jazz fusion.
Written and produced by Walker Grimshaw @walkergrimshaw
Saxophones - Yuri Villar @yuri_villar
Vibraphone - João Paulo Drummond @joaopaulo_drumond
Mastered by Peter Pacey @petepaceymusic
Deeply honoured to bring home a CASMA last night for Mother Father Sister Brother Frank with co-composer and friend Adrian Ellis (@aelliscomposer ). Big thanks to @screencomposers , @socanmusic , @orchestraltools , and of course, director @cadendouglas82 for his strong vision and support. Special shout-out to John Showman (@showman_music ) for his spectacular fiddle performances featured in the score. Excited to share this music with you all soon. Congrats to all the other nominees and winners!
We’re so excited that Adrian Ellis and Walker Grimshaw have been nominated by @thecdnacademy for Best Original Score for The Legacy of Cloudy Falls.
I feel so lucky that I get to collaborate with these two incredibly talented artists. They’re brimming with innovative ideas and take such a gentle, graceful and ego-free approach to their work. You never know where one’s ideas begin and the other’s end but they somehow always blend their styles beautifully.
Congratulations Adrian (@aelliscomposer ) and Walker (@walkergrimshaw )!!
Elated. Original Score nomination with the man @aelliscomposer . Huge thanks to director @nick_butler8 for the endless support, and to all the Academy members who voted. Unbelievable to be in the company of such esteemed artists, congrats to all! @thecdnacademy
Listen to Director, Scott Cavalheiro, and composer, Walker Grimshaw, discuss the making of Plan C's score. Live tonight on KFJC 89.7 FM and streaming at KFJC.org
6:30pm to 7:00pm PST
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some BTS from last April, working on the score for Nick Butler’s (@nick_butler8 ) upcoming film “Lunar Sway” with Adrian Ellis (@aelliscomposer ). Experimenting with guitar feedback, bass clarinet/synths through a gong amp, and vocals processed by the Hologram Chroma Console.
Video by Jade Chittock @kiwitography.ca
Looking back to this time last year, having Kalaisan Kalaichelvan @kalaisan13 up north for lab work on "Poitu Varen".
The sessions revolved around the mounting of transducers to a piano soundboard - experiments we'd eventually scale to three pianos for the live performance with @imnotchrispruden and @zoe.markle .
Modular synth, guitar pedals, feedback loops, aeolian harp recordings and experimental percussion were sent through the transducers, finding what worked sonically and narratively.
video by @kiwitography.ca
Back in February 2024, I had Tom @mappeof up here for a few days of "sonic foraging". These are my favourite kinds of sessions - exploration and tinkering without judgement, guided only by a vague shopping list, where most of the material ends up on the cutting room floor. Working with Tom was a real gift, and I’m honoured to be amongst the stacked cast of collaborators he brought together for this project. Huge congrats to Tom and @mappeof on this release. It’s a true masterpiece. Photo/video by @kiwitography.ca
Latest build is a first foray into modular synth modules. Teamed up with buddy Steve Travale to make these much needed passthroughs for the Moog setup.
