Christopher de Groot

Christopher de Groot is a musician/composer and bass player from Melbourne. He has written several scores for independent feature films, music and sound design for theatre, and several chamber works. He has a keen interest in the gamelan music of Bali which he has studied and performed for many years. He has written an opera based on the 20-hour video diaries of Bjork stalker Ricardo Lopez.

support material

Original Music by Christopher de Groot

Neon Mist - for 39 bells - composed for the Federation Bells [2019/2020]

Original Music by Christopher de Groot

Shockwaves of Pure Love - Sororal Finale - excerpt from the Sororal film score (nominated for APRA Feature Film Score of The Year [2014], soundtrack album released by MovieScore Media [Sweden])

10 piece brass section, 16 piece choir, 2x drum kit, analog synthesisers

Dream Home Main Theme - excerpt from Dream Home theatre show (Darebin Arts Speakeasy, Green Room Award for best Music & Sound, album released on The Mind Is Listening [AUS])

bass flute, 2x harp w/delay pedals, 4x electric guitar, percussion

Stone God - excerpt from The Burning Kiss film score (album released as the stand alone exotica concept album Sailing Ships & Tarot Cards by Rattle Records [NZ])

flute, bass flute, 2x jaw harp, vocals, percussion, guitar, organ, rhodes electric piano, double bass

Diana Rolls Into Town - excerpt from the Sororal film score (nominated for APRA Feature Film Score of The Year [2014], soundtrack album released by MovieScore Media [Sweden])


16 piece choir, drum kit, percussion, Hungarian cimbalom

Mallowflier - excerpt from The River theatre show (Red Stitch, nominated for a Green Room award for best Music & Sound, album released by The Mind Is Listening [AUS])

felt covered piano, whistling, hydrophone recordings, river field recordings

Agerasia - excerpt (commissioned by Decibel)

cello, bass clarinet, 3 ruined vinyl records

Mutant Telescope - excerpt (commissioned by Joshua Webster)

solo Hungarian cimbalom

The Fourth Step - excerpt (commissioned by Callum Moncrieff, text adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Choke)

solo vibraphone/narration

Phillies He Called Them - excerpt from The River theatre show (Red Stitch, nominated for a Green Room award for best Music & Sound, album released by The Mind Is Listening [AUS])

analog synthesizer, manipulated hydrophone recordings

Mommy There’s Plastic In My Fish - excerpt

bass flute, turntable, self choking vocalist

Original Löpez Artwork

artwork by Archie Haramis

Tete-a-Tete Festival Invitation

Formal invitation letter from artistic director Bill Bankes-Jones

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Artist Support Letters

Tenor Henry Choo and recording engineer Lachlan Carrick

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Email Confirmation From Musicians

The following musicians have tentatively been booked for the Löpez recording sessions: 

 

Warwick Stengaards (conductor, Vienna/Melbourne), Sarah Curro (violin, MSO), Christopher Cartlidge (viola, MSO), Michelle Wood (cello, MSO), Eugene Ughetti (Speak Percussion), Kaylie Melville (Speak Percussion), Michael Kieran Harvey (piano/celesta), Brigid Bourke (clarinet/bass clarinet), Asha Henfry (flute/bass flute)

I am working with Sarah Curro (violin, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) to secure a harpist, she has also organised a violist and cellist on my behalf.

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Löpez Pitch Document

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