Blair Joscelyne

Blair Joscelyne
Occupation	Composer, musician, Youtube Personality.

Blair Lyndon Joscelyne (also known as Moog) is an Australian composer, and songwriter, best known for composing music for television, film and Mighty Car Mods.^[1]

Life

Blair Joscelyne was born on 5 September 1978. His early life was spent in Launceston, Tasmania. His father was a radio broadcaster, his mother had studied violin, his paternal great grandfather was a pianist and pipe organist, and both his grandfathers played keyboard instruments, so from an early age music influenced his life. The family moved to Sydney when his father was appointed as Managing Director of AWA Media and 2CH. He studied at the University of Western Sydney-Nepean (BA-Music honours), Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Jazz) and the Berklee College of Music (Composition). He now lives in Sydney.

Career

After graduating from university he began working as a composer and audio engineer in the ad industry. His music has been used in feature^[2] and short films as well as national and global advertising for companies such as Smirnoff, VISA, Jetstar, BMW, Ford, Wrigley, Touchstone and Cascade.^[3] He has released four albums – 1978 (Solo), "The Sea Brings Rivalry", Finding May as part of the duo Finding May and "Coming Up For Air" under the name 'Solar'. The self-titled album from Finding May saw considerable commercial success with songs licensed for use in high profile TV shows and advertisements. The song "Rain Hail or Shine" was used by Arnott's across all of their commercials in 2009 while the song "Join In" was used on a TV commercial for Origin Energy which won the MADC for "Best use of a song in advertising 2009".^[4]

"Finding May" also produced and performed the theme song for Jetstar Airways in Australia^[5]

In March 2014, MOOG released the soundtrack to the MightyCarMods movie "Kei to the City", which reached all-time eighth most downloaded album on iTunes in Australia, and became the number one most downloaded electronic album in Canada, and Australia.

Mighty Car Mods

Blair Joscelyne currently hosts, together with Martin Mulholland, a hit online car modification show entitled Mighty Car Mods', now featured as a show on YouTube. Gavin Tyrrell, who is a director and motion effects artist, creates the intro sequence of each season of the show. The show is entirely shot, edited and hosted by two people and has quickly become Australia's No. 1 online DIY automotive show.^[6] The feature length film, Turbos and Temples, follows the hosts on a journey around Hokkaido, Japan. The film premiered at Hoyts Cinemas at Fox Studios, Sydney in February 2011 and is also available on DVD and Blu-ray. After the tsunami in Japan in 2011, proceeds from the sale of the film were donated to Japan Red Cross.

Referred to on the show by Marty as "MOOG" (an alias of Blair's referring to his notable work in the music industry) they shoot the show on Marty's mum's driveway and in her garage, at a top secret location in Western Sydney . The two enlist the help of various guests and experts in the automotive industry most of whom are members of the Mighty Car Mods online Forum.^[7] YouTube: on the show "Its Top Gear Meets Wayne's World with some Mythbusters thrown in!"^[8] Blair's consistent use of the slang term Mad (a colloquialism for good or cool in terms of aesthetic desire) and other various antics add a satirical tone to the show, making the show more entertainment based rather than just pure content.

The first episode was done in late 2007/early 2008 with MOOG's 2001 Daihatsu Cuore L700,^[9] also known as the Mira in Japan. They also built a similar Daihatsu Cuore as the 3-Part Premiere of Season 3. In the Season 1 finale, they built a Ford Laser called the "TRD Lazer" (TRD LZR for short),^[10] which was also featured in their music video.^[11]

They also upload videos to their second channel called MCMTV2, showing the behind the scenes and music from the show.^[12]

Filmography

This is a list of films where Joscelyne has composed soundtracks.

Year	Film	Director	Role
2009	Girl Clock!	Jennifer Ussi	Composer
2009	Lizard	John Skibinski	Composer
2008	Mutt^[13]	Glen Hunwick	Composer
2006	A Knight Lost^[14]	Tom Tate	Composer
2006	Fishy^[15]	Dale Sydney	Composer
2002	Man Conquers Space^[16]	David Sander	Composer

Discography

This is a list of albums Joscelyne has composed under the name Moog.

Year	Album	Notes
2010	The Sea Brings Rivalry^[17]	Feat. JS7
2014	Kei to the City^[18]
2015	Chasing Midnight^[19]