Jeremy Mayall (born November, 1983) is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, musician

Musician

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, multi-instrumentalist

Multi-instrumentalist

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, DJ and film maker best known for his ONE FAT MAN album "A Typical Day in Suburbia", and his "Symphony No 1 for Orchestra and Turntables

Symphony No 1 for Orchestra and Turntables

Symphony No.1 is A three movement piece for Orchestra and Turntables by Jeremy Mayall. This piece is the first orchestral symphony to use the techniques of turntablism.- History :...

", which was performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is the national orchestra of New Zealand. It is a crown entity owned by the Government of New Zealand, with 90 full-time players....

, and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra was established in the early 1980s and has become one of New Zealand's major performing organisations. The instigation of its Composer-in-Residence programme in 1990 has made the orchestra an important force in the promotion of New Zealand composed...

 (APO). The premiere performance was given by the Wellington Youth Orchestra (WYO) in 2005.

Biography

Born and raised in Hamilton, NZ he was schooled in music from age 5. Starting with piano

Piano

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 lessons, he progressed on to drums, harmonica

Harmonica

The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

, and bass. He now plays turntables, synths, melodica

Melodica

The melodica, also known as the "blow-organ" or "key-flute", is a free-reed instrument similar to the melodeon and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole,...

, and theremin

Theremin

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 among others. He also likes to perform using unconventional instruments such as iPhones, and watering cans. He also regularly sings with several bands, and in theatrical stage shows. He has performed throughout NZ, as well as in Fiji

Fiji

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, Nouméa

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, Vanuatu

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, Singapore

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 and the USA.

Academic study has been based at the University of Waikato

University of Waikato

The University of Waikato is located in Hamilton and Tauranga, New Zealand, and was established in 1964. It has strengths across a broad range of subject areas, particularly its degrees in Computer Science and in Management...

 and has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - majoring in Music, and a Masters degree (receiving First Class Honours), majoring in composition. He is currently completing doctoral study in musical composition at the University of Waikato. For all his graduate study Jeremy has been awarded a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship, and was Creative/Performing Arts Person of the Year for 2005, Media Personality of the Year 2005 and the inaugural winner of the Sir Edmund Hillary Medal. He was also the recipient of the Hamilton City Council BeatStreet award for Excellence in Creative and Performing Arts, and the Hamilton City Council Supreme Youth Award in 2008.

He married Courteney Mayall (née Bell) on the 1st May 2010. She is a hairstylist and special FX make-up artist.

Music

His music exists in almost all genres, including solo and chamber music, orchestral music, music for theatre and film, pop, hip-hop, jazz, as well as electro-acoustic music. His works always tend to favour the bizarre or fantastical elements of the imagination and his pieces always tend to look for a new form of expression, whether through turntables in an orchestra, to live electro-acoustic music for electric bass and turntables, to kitchen utensils as musical instruments. A fascination with Hip Hop music and culture, as well as the historical interest in many other musical forms (Jazz, Soul, Funk) and his interest in Film, has been a strong influence on his music.

At the age of 20 he wrote his first symphony – Symphony No.1 for orchestra and turntables (which has been performed by the APO, NZSO, WYO, DYO and NZSSSO). This is the first symphony to be written including modern turntablist techniques. He also released his first album through his production and pop music identity of ONE FAT MAN. The album 'a typical day in suburbia' received excellent reviews. It features styles that span the musical continuum from jazz to pop, to soul and hip hop. The album featured a range of local performers from Remy's home town of Hamilton, NZ. It contains tracks by local singers (Stephie Christian, Linda Dee, Landy Tyrell, Silua Fifita); rappers (Hitz, Ptt); and instrumentalists (Mike Mello, Rat Daddy, James Sutherland, Black C).

More recently Mayall has been performing and recording live electro-acoustic soundscapes for turntables, watering cans, electronics and taonga puoro with Richard Nunns

Richard Nunns

Richard Nunns QSM is a Māori traditional instrumentalist of Pākehā heritage. He is particularly known for playing the Taonga pūoro and his collaboration with fellow Māori instrumentalist Hirini Melbourne. Since Melbourne's death, he is regarded as the world's foremost authority on Māori...

 and with performance ensemble Sonic Warp with Daniel Peters. He has also been recording electro/synth-pop with his side project …howard. This band has already created a 7 track EP - Remaking Pearl Harbour, and an 11 track concept album They no longer sleep alone. This concept album has since been developed in to a feature length film by Chasing Time Productions.

Film and Theatre Music

Mayall regularly writes film music. In 2007 he composed, recorded and produced all the sound elements and music for the film-noir horror 'Down by the Riverside

Down by the Riverside (film)

Down by the Riverside is a 2007 New Zealand independent film noir horror film produced and directed by Brad Davison and Marama Killen, and written by Davison and Killen with Joe Hitchcock.-Synopsis:...

'. (Downending Films site).
'Down by the Riverside' was nominated for BEST FOREIGN FILM at the B-Movie Festival in New York.
He has also composed the score and sound design for “Pictures of You” and "They No Longer Sleep Alone" both by Chasing Time Productions.
Other recent film projects include the narrative dance films Lucid

Lucid

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and Beat

Beat

-Film:*Beat , the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play*Beat , a film about writer William Seward Burroughs*Beat , a 1998 Japanese film*Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a screenplay...

.

He has also recently formed at film music composing team called The Scorelocks Collective with fellow Hamilton composer Chris Lam Sam.
Three films they have scored have been accepted into international festivals. (Finding Marilyn in Castel del'Aquila, Lily White and Hunter)

In theatre music, Mayall has most often written musicals. Including the songs for "Alice and the Velvetty Tea cup", "Santa Claus" and most recently "Life in the Key of..." which was produced for the Hamilton Ignition Fringe Festival 2010, and received strong reviews.

Selected Composer Filmography

• Hunter (2011)
• Lucid
  Lucid
  Lucid is a dataflow programming language. It is designed to experiment with non-von Neumann programming models. It was designed by Bill Wadge and Ed Ashcroft and described in the book Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language.-Model:...
  
  (2011)
• Lily White (2011)
• Finding Marilyn in Castel del'Aquila (2010)
• Garden of Eva (2010)
• Beat
  Beat
  -Film:*Beat , the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play*Beat , a film about writer William Seward Burroughs*Beat , a 1998 Japanese film*Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a screenplay...
  
  (2009)
• They No Longer Sleep Alone (2009)
• Open Home (2008)
• Down by the Riverside
  Down by the Riverside (film)
  Down by the Riverside is a 2007 New Zealand independent film noir horror film produced and directed by Brad Davison and Marama Killen, and written by Davison and Killen with Joe Hitchcock.-Synopsis:...
  
  (2007)
• Pictures of You (2007)
• Late Night Specials (2006)
• Le Kiss de la Fox (2006)
• Private Eyes (2004)
• Go Go Turbo Team! - finalist in 48 Hour Film Fest 2008 - (Nominated for Best Score)
• Mists of Uriea - finalist in 48 Hour Film Fest 2008 - (Winner of Best Score)
• Focus on the Centre - minimalist art film (First place in the Multimedia Section of the Lilburn Trust Composition Awards)

Other Compositional History

From 2003 - Current:


Theatre Works

• Life in the Key of...
• Santa Claus
• Alice and the Velvety Teacup
• Virtual Reality (Dance Soundscape)
• Bungamucka (Closing Dance Segment – industrial techno meets soundscapes)
• Swamp Treasures (Live Orchestra + Soundscapes)
• Deconstructing Alice Dee (Jazz, Dance, Soundscapes, Solo Piano, Circus music)
• Bliss (Opening dance segment – 16mins of various styles of music)
• Te Marama (ranging from traditional maori music to reggae)
• The Buried Life (from rock to soundscapes to circus music)
• Good as Gold (1920s silent movie piano music)
• Lupin (Dance music, Reggae, Rock, Avantgarde)

Solo Work:

• The effect of bundled sticks on sound (solo bassoon + fx)
• From Dusk till Dawn (solo flute)
• Loves Theme (solo piano)
• Ones Theme (solo piano)

Ensemble Work:

• sssSTEAMmmm (soundscape, taonga puoro, harmonica, effects)
• Nebula Puoro (soundscape, taonga puoro, theremin effects)
• A new communication (electronics, light table, taonga puoro, laptop, effects, 3 iphones, 5.1 surround sound)
• Ave Maria (electronics, synths, soprano, film)
• Ebb (taonga puoro, turntables and theremin)
• Supermarkets and Lovers (String Quartet)
• Paaroretanga (Watering Can, Effects, Turntables and video)
• De Feo (alto sax and viola)
• Espacio (guitar orchestra)
• A mix of emotions (song cycle for soprano, violin, cello, turntables)
• A recipe for disaster (for 5 men in a kitchen)
• Nuevo Viaje (for guitar orchestra)
• Into the Depths of Darkness (micro score for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon)
• The Soundscape of New Utilitablaszione (for electric bass and turntables)
• The Big Fat Jazz Bastard Theme Song (for big band)
• Today is the Tomorrow (turntables, electronics, keyboard, video)

Orchestral Work:

• Expendable Dichotomy (orchestra)
• …seconds unwind… generated noise… racecar (for chamber orchestra)
• Into the depths of Chaotic Moisture (orchestra and soundscape)
• The Adventures of a Hero (orchestra)
• Symphony No.1 (for orchestra and turntables)
• High Speed Chase Scene (for orchestra and sound effects)
• Electric Bass Concerto (for orchestra and electric bass)

Pop Music:

• Composed 8 tracks for "Human Residue" by Devin Mohr (USA)
• Composed all the music for "a typical day in suburbia" ONE FAT MAN (NZ)
• Remix for datemonthyear “ghost 6 – the concussion remix”
• 2 Remixes for “I Want You” – cd single by Ashley Cooper

(“The Jerome Mark Nu-Lounge Remix” and the “ONEFATMAN Military Remix)

• Composed music for "Remaking Pearl Harbour EP" by ...howard
• Composed music for "They no longer sleep alone" by ...howard

External links

• Official web site
• ...howard) on MySpace
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• ONE FAT MAN on Myspace