Tomandandy

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Tomandandy
OriginNew York City, New York, U.S.
GenresFilm score, soundtrack, trance music
Websitewww.tomandandy.com
Members
  • Andy Milburn
  • Thomas Hajdu

Tomandandy is an American musical duo from New York City, consisting of members Thomas Hajdu and Andy Milburn. While they are best known for their work scoring films,[1][2] their portfolio includes music for television commercials[3] as well as television programs, records and art installations.[4]

History[]

Andy Milburn was born in Texas and went to Princeton University for undergraduate as well as graduate work. At Princeton, his primary focus was creating computer music and computer music applications. During that time, he contributed to the early computer music system called Real-time Cmix. Thomas Hajdu was born in Canada and moved to the US to work on his graduate studies at Princeton University. Tom has sat on many award juries and chaired and spoken at international conferences about the impact of technology on content including TED, MIT Enterprise Forum and Digital Hollywood.

Milburn and Hajdu moved to New York after Princeton and started collaborating with film director Mark Pellington at MTV and film editors Hank Corwin and Bruce Ashley in the UK. Soon their work was being used in commercials, TV shows, feature films, art installations and record projects. Tomandandy quickly grew and they built a number of recording studios in New York and later in Los Angeles. At the same time, Tomandandy invested in technological innovations focusing on digital entertainment. A notable project was the MTV "Buzz" series.[5]

In 1992, Tomandandy appeared on the Red Hot Organization's dance compilation album, Red Hot + Dance, contributing an original dance track, "Theme From Red Hot & Dance (Gothic Mix)." The album attempted to raise awareness and money in support of the AIDS epidemic, and all proceeds were donated to AIDS charities.

In 2009, Tomandandy won Best Horror Score (runner-up) in Fangoria's Chainsaw Award[6] for their score to The Strangers.

In 2020, Tomandandy's Tom Hajdu reflected on The Strangers soundtrack during an interview.[7] "There was a lot of intentionality in mixing strange sounds with familiar sounds! It was a combination of analog, synthetic, and ambient sounds, along with silence, put together in unusual ways. To create combinations that are not necessarily traditional in that respect, or expected." - Tom Hajdu

Selected discography[]

Other works[]

Film scores[]

Year Title Director Notes
1994 Killing Zoe Roger Avary
1995 Mr. Stitch Roger Avary Television film
1997 Going All the Way Mark Pellington
2000 Waking the Dead Keith Gordon Composed with Scott Shields
2002 The Mothman Prophecies Mark Pellington
2002 The Rules of Attraction Roger Avary
2003 Faster Mark Neale
2004 Mean Creek Jacob Aaron Estes
2004 Freshman Orientation Ryan Shiraki
2005 Love, Ludlow Adrienne Weiss
2006 Right at Your Door Chris Gorak
2006 The Hills Have Eyes Alexandre Aja
2006 The Covenant Renny Harlin
2007 P2 Franck Khalfoun
2008 Sleep Dealer Alex Rivera
2008 The Strangers Bryan Bertino
2008 The Echo Yam Laranas
2009 The Good Guy Julio DePietro Composed with Kurt Oldman
2010 Resident Evil: Afterlife Paul W. S. Anderson
2010 And Soon the Darkness Marcos Efron
2011 I Melt with You Mark Pellington
2011 The Details Jacob Aaron Estes
2011 Fastest Mark Neale
2012 Citadel Ciaran Foy
2012 The Apparition Todd Lincoln
2012 Resident Evil: Retribution Paul W. S. Anderson
2013 Blaze You Out Mateo Frazier
Diego Joaquin Lopez
2013 Innocence Hilary Brougher
2014 Animal Brett Simmons
2014 Girl House Trevor Matthews
2014 7 Minutes Jay Martin
2015 H8RZ Derrick Borte
2015 Sinister 2 Ciaran Foy
2016 Havenhurst Andrew C. Erin
2016 The Monster Bryan Bertino
2016 City of Joy Madeleine Gavin Composed with Lokua Kanza
2017 47 Meters Down Johannes Roberts
2017 Wish Upon John R. Leonetti
2019 The Wolf's Call Antonin Baudry
2019 The Silence John R. Leonetti
2019 47 Meters Down: Uncaged Johannes Roberts
2019 Haunt Scott Beck
Bryan Woods
2019 Lucky Day Roger Avary

Selected artistic collaborations[]

  • No Maps for These Territories, documentary collaboration with author William Gibson and director Mark Neale, Slamdance, 2001
  • Starn Brothers, Black Sun Burned, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1998
  • Tom Sachs, Sony Outsider, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, 1998
  • David Byrne, Grammy/Academy Award winner, production and composition for It Goes Back from Offbeat, TVT Records, 1997
  • Lou Reed, Grammy Award winner, production and composition for You Know You Were Loved from Friends soundtrack, Reprise/Warner, 1997
  • William S. Burroughs, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters novelist, production and composition for Old Western Movies from Kicks Joy Darkness. Ryko, 1997
  • Remix of the Gravity Kills song "Goodbye" on the Guilty remix single. TVT Records, 1996
  • La Fura dels Baus, John Paul Jones, Peter Gabriel, collaboration for Spanish World's Fair, 1996
  • Laurie Anderson, Creator of Performance Art, production and composition for In Our Sleep, Warner Brothers, 1995
  • U2: Zoo TV, World Tour, 1994
  • Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning writer/director, additional music for feature films JFK, Warner Brothers 1991 and Natural Born Killers, Warner Brothers 1994
  • Jenny Holzer, Laments, DiaArt Foundation, New York, 1989

References[]

  1. ^ Schweiger, Daniel. "Industry Spotlight: Tom Hajdu, the Resident "T" in Tomandandy". Film Music Magazine.
  2. ^ Fichera, J.Blake (1 July 2016). Scored To Death: Conversations with Some of Horror's Greatest Composers. Silman-James Press. pp. 352–403. ISBN 193524714X.
  3. ^ Ho, Richard. "Two's Company: The Return of Tomandandy". Ad Age.
  4. ^ Pener, Degen. "Making Music (Boom, Boom) On Computers". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "Buzz, Episode 1". Network Awesome.
  6. ^ "Chainsaw Awards 2009". IMDB.
  7. ^ Regev, Nir. "tomandandy's Tom Hajdu reflects on 'The Strangers' soundtrack (Interview)". The Natural Aristocrat.

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