Music

For over a decade I have been composing music and sound design for an eclectic range of film, theatre, podcasts and video games. I have experience working both ‘in the box’ with electronic samples, and with arranging for live musicians. Here is a shortlist of some of my composing credits, with links where available. You can visit my SoundCloud page to hear examples of my work.

 

Theatre

Museum of this Morning | Jetpack Theatre Collective | 2021

The Saboteur | Jetpack Theatre Collective | 2019 (Winner "Outstanding Show" New Zealand Improv Festival 2019)

Julius Caesar | Sport For Jove | 2017

Antigone | Sport For Jove | 2016 (Nominated “Best Sound Design” Sydney Theatre Award)

Dot and the Kangaroo | NIDA | 2016

Photo from workshop production of Dot and the Kangaroo, a musical I composed based on the Australian children's book.

Podcasts

Conversations from the Abyss | White Cat Entertainment | 2021

Play School Stories | ABC Kids Listen | 2021

Snowball | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 2019

 

Video Games

Birdsketball | Waynetron | 2016

Particulars | SeeThrough Studios | 2014

 

Short Films

Diagnosis | Post Haste Productions | 2020

Jimbra | IdleWrath Productions | 2016

The score by Bryce Halliday does a mesmerising job supplementing the story and themes of Diagnosis. The bouncy, almost Glee-esque, choir and accompanying drum rhythm effortlessly transitions from being light and playful to anxious and foreboding depending on the direction of the scene. Furthermore, that drum becomes directly intertwined with the story, through sounding like the pulse of a beating heart or the tick-tock of a clock.” - Harry Fritsch

The Creative Issue

Bryce Halliday Live

Bryce Halliday

An EP of choice moments from a performance I did as part of Hayes Theatre Co's cabaret season in July 2016.

The show itself was a best of the last few solo shows that I have taken to the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and Newcastle Fringe Festival, with new arrangements written for a 5
An EP of choice moments from a performance I did as part of Hayes Theatre Co's cabaret season in July 2016.

The show itself was a best of the last few solo shows that I have taken to the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and Newcastle Fringe Festival, with new arrangements written for a 5 piece band.
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From One Note

Bryce Halliday & Keng-Sam Chane Chick Té

From One Note is an hour long, completely improvised album, recorded in real time, in one take, performed by Bryce Halliday and Keng-Sam Chane Chick Té.

Keng-Sam is a musician, improviser and film-maker from Réunion Island. Bryce Halliday is a comedian and musical improviser from Sydney, Australia. In mid-2015 we were both teaching at an
From One Note is an hour long, completely improvised album, recorded in real time, in one take, performed by Bryce Halliday and Keng-Sam Chane Chick Té.

Keng-Sam is a musician, improviser and film-maker from Réunion Island. Bryce Halliday is a comedian and musical improviser from Sydney, Australia. In mid-2015 we were both teaching at an improvised theatre festival in Canberra called Improvention. We had never met, but having seen each other performing and teaching during the festival we connected and decided we must find a time to make music together before we go our separate ways.

On the last day of the festival between the afternoon and evening shows we found an hour we could both set aside. Fortunately Bryce had some recording equipment in his car. We set up microphones in an empty theatre at the Street Theatre complex in Canberra. Bryce on keyboard and Keng-Sam on guitar, then we hit record.

What follows is a fascinating hour of two experienced improvisers playing music together for the first time, starting with one note and building out the piece from there.

Included at the beginning of the album is an edited version of us chatting while we were sound checking. Apart from what you hear there was almost no discussion before the performance about what was going to happen. No key signatures, moods or song structures were mentioned. Every musical idea is entirely of the moment. Over the hour you can hear musical and lyrical ideas being offered, built upon, discarded and returned to.

And apart from mixing the levels throughout the session and adding a few reverb and delay effects in post production there have been almost no edits made to the recording. Every track starts in real time after the previous. A new track in this album simply signifies where a new idea has begun.

Being recorded in one take there are certainly some clunky moments. There are flubbed notes on the piano, the guitar isn’t always perfectly in tune, we sometimes lose the beat. But there are plenty of moments of joy: great riffs, funny songs, lots of drumming on instruments rather than playing them, and soaring moments of beauty. These are the moments that made us want to release this recording to a wider audience. Moments when two minds are totally in sync and all there is, is music.

Rather than single these moments out, we thought we would release the performance in its entirety so an interested listener can hear where the ideas came from. These recordings are available under a creative commons license so if there are moments you would like to sample or remix for your own project go right ahead. If you would like stems of a particular track you are very welcome to get in touch.

In the mixdown Bryce has been mostly panned to the left channel, and Keng-Sam to the right, so particularly in the moments when we are singing, clapping or drumming on our instruments it is easier to tell who is doing what.

Big thanks to Nick Byrne for organising Improvention year after year, without which we never would have met. Also thanks to David Muratore for production advice.
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