tomandandy
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Origin | New York City, New York |
Genres | Film score, soundtrack, trance music |
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tomandandy began as a music production company in the 1980s. While they are best known for their work scoring films,[1] their portfolio includes music for television commercials as well as television programs, records and art installations.
History
Andy Milburn was born in Texas and went to Princeton University for undergraduate as well as graduate work. At Princeton, his primary focus was creating computer music and computer music applications. During that time, he helped build the early computer music system called "CMIX". Thomas Hajdu was born in Canada and moved to the US to work on his graduate studies at Princeton University. Tom has sat on many award juries and chaired and spoken at international conferences about the impact of technology on content including TED, CalTech/MIT Enterprise Forum and Digital Hollywood.
Milburn and Hajdu moved to New York after Princeton and started collaborating with film director Mark Pellington at MTV and film editors Hank Corwin and Bruce Ashley in the UK. Soon their work was being used in commercials, TV shows, feature films, art installations and record projects. tomandandy quickly grew and they built a number of recording studios in New York and later in Los Angeles. At the same time, tomandandy invested in technological innovations focusing on digital entertainment.[2] A notable project was the MTV "Buzz" series.
In 1992, tomandandy appeared on the Red Hot Organization's dance compilation album, Red Hot + Dance, contributing an original dance track, "Theme From Red Hot & Dance (Gothic Mix)." The album attempted to raise awareness and money in support of the AIDS epidemic, and all proceeds were donated to AIDS charities.
Selected discography
- Girl House 2014 film soundtrack[3]
- Animal 2014 film soundtrack
- Innocence 2013 film soundtrack
- Resident Evil: Retribution 2012 film soundtrack, by MIlan Records
- Fastest 2011 film soundtrack, MIlan Records
- Resident Evil: Afterlife 2010 film soundtrack, MIlan Records
- The Strangers - 2008 film soundtrack - Lakeshore Records
- Right at Your Door - 2007 film soundtrack - Lakeshore Records
- The Hills Have Eyes - 2006 film soundtrack - Lakeshore Records
- The Covenant - 2006 film soundtrack - Lakeshore Records
- Faster - 2003 film soundtrack - Lakeshore Records
- Mean Creek - 2004 film soundtrack - Lakeshore Records
- The Rules of Attraction - 2002 film soundtrack - Lion's Gate Records
- The Mothman Prophecies - 2002 film soundtrack - Lakeshore Records
- Arlington Road - 1999 film soundtrack - Lakeshore
- Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness - collaboration with William S. Burroughs on Old Western Movies, Ryko, 1997
- Going All the Way (1997 film)
- United States of Poetry - Polygram, 1996
- It Goes Back - David Byrne from OffBeat - TVT Records, 1996
- Cartridge Music from OffBeat - TVT Records, 1996
- In Our Sleep - Laurie Anderson - Warner Brothers, 1995
- You'll Know You Were Loved - Lou Reed, Original TV Soundtrack, Reprise, 1995
- Killing Zoe - 1994 film soundtrack - Milan/BMG
- ZooTV Live from Sydney - U2 Polygram Video, 1994
Selected artistic collaborations
- No Maps For These Territories, documentary collaboration with author William Gibson and director Mark Neale, Slamdance, 2001
- Starn Brothers, Black Sun Burned, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1998
- Tom Sachs, Sony Outsider, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, 1998
- David Byrne, Grammy/Academy Award winner, production and composition for It Goes Back from Offbeat, TVT Records, 1997
- Lou Reed, Grammy Award winner, production and composition for You Know You Were Loved from Friends soundtrack, Reprise/Warner, 1997
- William S. Burroughs, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters novelist, production and composition for Old Western Movies from Kicks Joy Darkness. Ryko, 1997
- Remix of the Gravity Kills song "Goodbye" on the Guilty remix single. TVT Records, 1996
- La Fura dels Baus, John Paul Jones, Peter Gabriel, collaboration for Spanish World's Fair, 1996
- Laurie Anderson, Creator of Performance Art, production and composition for In Our Sleep, Warner Brothers, 1995
- U2: Zoo TV, World Tour, 1994
- Oliver Stone, Academy Award winning writer/director, additional music for feature films JFK, Warner Brothers 1991 and Natural Born Killers, Warner Brothers 1994
- Jenny Holzer, Laments, DiaArt Foundation, New York, 1989