christopher de groot

I have been accepted into the West Australian Symphony Orchestra's 2010 Composition Project. Four lucky WA composers have been given the chance to compose a piece for WASO's EChO chamber orchestra. The event will culminate in an informal concert and recording session held at the ABC studios Perth in late August.

The score for Esoterica has finally been mixed and mastered. Big thanks to Ben Morris who did a fantastic job recording and mixing the music.

The completion of the sound design is still underway and will be finished sometime in June 2010. Audio samples of the score, which features a 23-piece orchestra (real physical orchestra NOT sampled) can now be found in the film section of the audio samples page.

it's not quite gary

may 2010

Selected cues from the unused score to It's Just Gary have finally been posted to the
site. See the film audio samples page to listen.


Any filmmakers interested in recycling the score can email me.

(My score for Backstage suffered a similar fate - score anyone?)

"Contortionist"

A live recording of my newest chamber work Contortionist can now be heard here.

Contortionist (a piece for sax, cello, piano, vibraphone, percussion and live sample
manipulation), was performed live at the Fremantle Arts Center in March 2010.


Percussionist Callum Moncrieff

director interviews composer

april 2010

With the completion of independent feature film Esoterica just inches away, director Sam
Barrett interviews yours truly about the score and all things film music.


Sam Barrett, Ivan Davidov & David Karsten of Nakatomi Pictures

Click here to read the interview.
Click here to listen to a sample of the score.

new score recorded

After a long but rewarding four days in the studio my score for Esoterica has been
recorded. A stellar effort by the ensemble and the sound team has ensured an amazing
sounding musical work.

Sound excerpts and release date information coming soon.  

  

exciting new feature film score

I am currently working on a film score for Sam Barrett's feature Esoterica. The score will
be composed for a 23-piece orchestra (an actual physical orchestra, NOT sampled) and
will be recorded on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th of April 2010. 

WASA nomination

february 2010

I have been nominated for a West Australian Screen Award (2010) for my work on Megan Palinkis's Crow's Feet.



The awards ceremony will be held on the 6th of March 2010 at the Perth Concert Hall.

"Ménilmontant" screens in Hong Hong

january 2010

My original score for Dimitri Kirsanoff's 1926 French silent film masterpiece Ménilmontant was screened with the film at the Osage gallery in Hong Kong.

The film, (score performed by the Annexia Ensemble) was first screened at the Astor Theatre in August 2009)

Click here to read the Resonate review of the original performance.



Ménilmontant is a medium-length silent film directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, which has been hailed as a striking, disturbing masterpiece.

The story follows the lives of two young sisters who experience their parents’ brutal death in the family home. Alone and on their own, the sisters move to Paris where they struggle to survive in the seedy neighbourhood of Ménilmontant.

Kirsanoff’s style is striking and experimental, his film making skills brilliantly serve the tragic and sad nature of this story. The mix of experimental techniques and melodramatic plot is brilliantly and disturbingly balanced.

Christopher de Groot, IMDB de Groot, Annexia Ensemble, Esoterica, Nakatomi Pictures, Sam Barrett, Ivan Davidov, David Karsten, Robbie Studsor, Ménilmontant, Dimitri Kirsanoff, The Director's Cut, West Australian Symphony Orchestra