Ned Bouhalassa is a composer of film scores, television scores, and electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...

. Bouhalassa is a Canadian

Canada

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 citizen, and has been residing in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 since 1967.

In 1993, he began composing television soundtracks, and has been writing music for image full-time since 1997. His music has been heard in international television series such as 18 To Life

18 to Life

18 to Life is a Canadian television sitcom that debuted on January 4, 2010 on CBC Television. The series is shown in Quebec on Vrak.TV with the title Majeurs et mariés.-Synopsis:...

, 15/Love

15/Love

15/Love is a Canadian-produced television series that revolves around the lives of aspiring young tennis players at the Cascadia Tennis Academy. The show was created by Karen Troubetzkoy and Derek Schreyer, and was filmed in the city of Montreal during the summer. 15/Love first aired on the...

, and Dogs With Jobs, as well as in independent feature films including Jack & Ella, Evil Words, These Girls

These Girls

These Girls is a 2005 film by John Hazlett, based upon the play of the same name by Vivienne Laxdal. With David Boreanaz and Caroline Dhavernas Holly Lewis, Amanda Walsh, Colin C...

, starring David Boreanaz

David Boreanaz

David Boreanaz is an American actor, television producer, and director, known for his role as Angel on the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and as Special Agent Seeley Booth on the television crime drama Bones....

, and Le Goût des jeunes filles.

A student of composer Francis Dhomont

Francis Dhomont

Francis Dhomont is a French composer of electroacoustic / acousmatic music.-Biography:He studied composition under Ginette Waldmeier, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger...

, and professor Kevin Austin, he has been composing electroacoustic music since 1987. Regularly programmed at Montreal's Elektra and Réseaux festivals, his concert music has also been heard around the world. Since the late 1990s, he has been exploring hybridization by combining electronic beats with electroacoustic soundscapes. Lately, he has been interested in collaborating with video artists and writing works for surround-sound systems.

Bouhalassa received first prize in the electroacoustic category of the 1990 SOCAN Young Composer's Competition, third prize in the 1993 Luigi Russolo International Competition

Luigi Russolo

Luigi Russolo was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises . He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of "noise concerts" in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921...

, and was a finalist in the 1995 Noroit-Léonce Petitot Acousmatic Competition.

Film Scores

• Who Is Simon Miller? (2011)
• What Sank Titanic? (2011)
• Flesh Offering (2009)
• Un Cargo pour l'Afrique (2009)
• Carny (2009)
• Rise of the Gargoyles (2008)
• The Unsinkable Titanic (2008)
• Infected (2008)
• S & M: Short and Male (2007)
• Ou vas-tu Moshe? (2007)
• Banshee (2006)
• These Girls (2005)
• Le Goût des jeunes filles (2004)
• Sur le seuil/Evil Words (2003)
• Jack & Ella (2002)
• Home (2002)
• Ne dis rien (2000)
• Arrival 2 (1998)
• Backroads (1997)
• Invasion of the Beer People (1996)
• Icebreaker to the North Pole (1996)

Television series

• 18 To Life
• In Real Life
• Hakuna Matata
  Hakuna Matata
  Hakuna matata is a Swahili phrase that is literally translated as "There are no worries." It is sometimes translated as "no worries", although is more commonly used similarly to the American English phrase "no problem".-Jambo Bwana:...
  
  
• 15/Love
  15/Love
  15/Love is a Canadian-produced television series that revolves around the lives of aspiring young tennis players at the Cascadia Tennis Academy. The show was created by Karen Troubetzkoy and Derek Schreyer, and was filmed in the city of Montreal during the summer. 15/Love first aired on the...
  
  
• Fries With That?
  Fries with That?
  Fries with That? is a YTV produced sitcom. It first aired in April 2004.This sitcom revolves around a group of high-school students who work at a local fast food restaurant named Bulky's in Montreal, Quebec, Canada....
  
  
• Dogs With Jobs
• Back To Sherwood
• Tornado Alley
• Visez dans le mille

Electroacoustic Works

• The Lighthouse (2005), videomusic; with Khrystell Burlin (video)
• Songe errant (2005)
• Urban Cuts (2005), cello, drums and 5.1 audio; with Fortner Anderson (text)
• Blur (2001–03)
• mOrpheus (2003)
• Bija
  Bija (album)
  Bija is a limited-release down tempo electro-pop song project, created in 2000 by Annabelle Chvostek in collaboration with electro-acoustic producer Ned Bouhalassa.-Track listing:#"'Thanatology'" – 4:41#"'Silence & Love'" – 5:13...
  
  (2000); with Annabelle Chvostek
  Annabelle Chvostek
  Annabelle Chvostek is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Montreal. She is known for her rich singing voice, compelling lyrics and genre-spanning musicality, as well as her Juno-nominated work with harmony trio The Wailin' Jennys....
  
  
• Impulse (1999)
• Jets (1996–98)
• Brouillard (1997)
• Constamment (autoportrait) (1997)
• Éclipse (1996)
• Move 1 (1994)
• Attraction (1992–93)
• Le désir fauve (1991)
• Bouffée délirante (1990)

Recordings

• Gratte-Cité (empreintes DIGITALes
  Empreintes DIGITALes
  empreintes DIGITALes is a record label founded in 1990 and based in Montreal which specialises in contemporary electroacoustic music, acousmatic and musique concrète.In 2005, empreintes DIGITALes shifted from CD to DVD-Audio.- Composers :* Mathew Adkins...
  
  , IMED 0895, 2008)
• Aérosol (empreintes DIGITALes
  Empreintes DIGITALes
  empreintes DIGITALes is a record label founded in 1990 and based in Montreal which specialises in contemporary electroacoustic music, acousmatic and musique concrète.In 2005, empreintes DIGITALes shifted from CD to DVD-Audio.- Composers :* Mathew Adkins...
  
  , IMED 9840, 1998)

External links

• http://youshootiscore.com (official site)
• http://www.mstation.org/ned_b.php (interview on mstation.org)