Paul Charlier
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Paul Charlier is an Australian composer
and sound designer who works primarily in theatre and film. He has also worked in radio and was a founding member of the Sydney post-punk band SoliPsiK
. His recent theatre work includes the Sydney Theatre Company
productions of A Streetcar Named Desire
(Sound Designer) and Uncle Vanya
(Composer and Sound Designer), as well as the Company B
production of The Diary of a Madman (Sound Designer). His film credits include Looking for Alibrandi
(Sound Designer), Candy
(Composer and Sound Designer) and Last Ride
(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...
and sound designer who works primarily in theatre and film. He has also worked in radio and was a founding member of the Sydney post-punk band SoliPsiK
SPK (band)
SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. One member, Graeme Revell, would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer.-History:...
. His recent theatre work includes the Sydney Theatre Company
Sydney Theatre Company
The Sydney Theatre Company is one of Australia's best-known theatre companies operating from The Wharf Theatre near The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as the Sydney Theatre and the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre....
productions of A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...
(Sound Designer) and Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski....
(Composer and Sound Designer), as well as the Company B
Company B (theatre)
Belvoir is an Australian theatre company based at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia. Its Artistic Director is Ralph Myers.Belvoir receives government support for its activities from the federal government through the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and...
production of The Diary of a Madman (Sound Designer). His film credits include Looking for Alibrandi
Looking for Alibrandi
Looking for Alibrandi is a 1999 Australian film written by Melina Marchetta based on the novel of the same name. The film sets in the 1990s Sydney, New South Wales and starring Australian actors, including Pia Miranda as Josephine Alibrandi, the film's main character, Anthony LaPaglia as her...
(Sound Designer), Candy
Candy (2006 film)
Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film, adapted from Luke Davies's novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction. Candy was directed by debut film-maker Neil Armfield and stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush....
(Composer and Sound Designer) and Last Ride
Last Ride (film)
Last Ride is a 2009 Australian drama film directed by Glendyn Ivin. It is based on the novel The Last Ride by Denise Young. The film follows a young boy accompanying his father , who is wanted by the police, across Australia.The film was given a limited release across Australia on 2 July...
(Composer).
Film
- CandyCandy (2006 film)Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film, adapted from Luke Davies's novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction. Candy was directed by debut film-maker Neil Armfield and stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush....
- Nominated for a 2006 FCCAFilm Critics Circle of AustraliaThe Film Critics Circle of Australia is a group of cinema critics that judge Australian films.-External links:**...
Award (Best Music Score) - The Projectionist - Nominated (with Ian McLoughlin) for a 2003 AFIAustralian Film InstituteThe Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...
Award (Best Sound in a Non-Feature Film)
Theatre
- The Diary of a Madman - Won (with Alan JohnAlan JohnAlan John is an Australian composer. He studied music at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1980. His compositions include original music for various plays, films and TV series , and the musical theatre works Jonah Jones, Orlando Rourke, and the musical Snugglepot and...
) a 2010 Sydney Theatre Award (Best Score or Sound Design) - A Streetcar Named DesireA Streetcar Named Desire (play)A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...
- Won a 2009 Sydney Theatre Award (Best Score or Sound Design) and a 2010 Helpmann Award (Best Sound Design) - Buried ChildBuried ChildBuried Child is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright...
- Nominated for a 2003 Helpmann Award (Best Sound Design)
Physical Theatre
- Honour Bound - Won a 2006 Sydney Theatre Award (Best Score or Sound Design) and a 2006 Greenroom Award (Outstanding Composition/Sound Design)
Film
- Last RideLast Ride (film)Last Ride is a 2009 Australian drama film directed by Glendyn Ivin. It is based on the novel The Last Ride by Denise Young. The film follows a young boy accompanying his father , who is wanted by the police, across Australia.The film was given a limited release across Australia on 2 July...
- Dir. Glendyn Innis. (2009) - CandyCandy (2006 film)Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film, adapted from Luke Davies's novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction. Candy was directed by debut film-maker Neil Armfield and stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush....
- Dir. Neil ArmfieldNeil ArmfieldNeil Geoffrey Armfield AO is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera.Born in Sydney, Armfield was the youngest of three boys. The son of a factory worker at the nearby Arnott's biscuit factory he was brought up in the suburb of Concord adjacent to Exile Bay...
. (2006) - The Cost of Living - Dir. Lloyd Newson. (2005)
- The Projectionist - Dir. Michael Bates. (2003)
- Looking For AlibrandiLooking for AlibrandiLooking for Alibrandi is a 1999 Australian film written by Melina Marchetta based on the novel of the same name. The film sets in the 1990s Sydney, New South Wales and starring Australian actors, including Pia Miranda as Josephine Alibrandi, the film's main character, Anthony LaPaglia as her...
- Dir. Kate WoodsKate WoodsKate Woods is an Australian film and television director.She has worked on the series G.P., Phoenix, Police Rescue, Changi, Escape from Jupiter Heartland to the American series Crossing Jordan, Without a Trace, Bones, NCIS: Los Angeles, Private Practice and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.Woods...
. (2000) - Aftershocks - Dir. Geoff Burton. (1998)
- Amongst Equals - Dir. Tom Zubrycki. (1991)
- Friends and Enemies - Dir. Tom Zubrycki. (1987)
Theatre - Original Music and Sound Design
- Uncle VanyaUncle VanyaUncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski....
- Dir: Tamas Ascher. Sydney Theatre Company. (2010) - Tot Mom - Dir: Steven SoderberghSteven SoderberghSteven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...
. Sydney Theatre Company. (2009) - A Streetcar Named DesireA Streetcar Named Desire (play)A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...
- Dir: Liv UllmannLiv UllmannLiv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...
, Sydney Theatre Company. (2009) - AfterlifeAfterlife (play)Afterlife is a 2008 play by Michael Frayn. It tells the life and career of Austrian theatrical director and actor Max Reinhardt, from the revival of the Salzburg Festival in 1920, which he helped to re-establish, until his death in New York in 1943...
- Dir: Michael BlakemoreMichael BlakemoreMichael Howell Blakemore OBE is an Australian actor, writer and theatre director. In 2000 he became the only individual to win Tony Awards for best Director of a Play and Musical in the same year for Copenhagen and Kiss Me, Kate....
. Royal National Theatre. (2008) - Toy SymphonyToy Symphony (play)Toy Symphony is a two-act play written by Australian playwright Michael Gow. It is Gow’s first full length play in over a decade since Sweet Phoebe and won several awards at its 2007 premiere production at Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney....
- Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (2007) - Influence - Dir: Bruce MylesBruce MylesBruce Myles is an Australian actor and film director. He has appeared in 40 films and television shows since 1963. In 1987, along with Michael Pattinson, he co-directed the film Ground Zero. It was entered into the 38th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Ground Zero * A Cry...
, Sydney Theatre Company. (2005) - Victory - Dir: Judy DavisJudy DavisJudy Davis is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows....
with Ben Winspear. Sydney Theatre Company. (2004) - The Lieutenant of InishmoreThe Lieutenant of InishmoreThe Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.-Plot:...
- Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (2003) - The Way of the WorldThe Way of the WorldThe Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London...
- Dir: Gale EdwardsGale EdwardsGale Edwards is an Australian theatre director, who has worked extensively throughout Australia and internationally. She has also directed for television and film. She began her career at Adelaide youth theatre company Energy Connection...
. Sydney Theatre Company. (2003) - Buried ChildBuried ChildBuried Child is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright...
- Dir: Gale Edwards. Company B. (2002) - Suddenly Last SummerSuddenly, Last SummerSuddenly, Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams. It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams's one-acts, Something Unspoken. The presentation of the two plays was given the overall title Garden District, but Suddenly, Last Summer is...
- Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (2000) - The SeagullThe SeagullThe Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
- Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (1997) - The Blind Giant Is Dancing - Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (1995)
- Aftershocks - Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (1993)
Theatre - Sound Design
- The Diary of a Mad Man - Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (2010)
- DeuceDeuce (play)Deuce is a play by Terrence McNally. The Broadway production, directed by Michael Blakemore, starred Angela Lansbury as blue collar Leona Mullen and Marian Seldes as well-bred Midge Barker, two former successful tennis partners, now retired, who reunite to be honored at a women's quarterfinals...
- Dir: Michael Blakemore. Music Box TheatreMusic Box TheatreThe Music Box Theater is a Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan.The once most aptly named theater on Broadway, the intimate Music Box was designed by architect C. Howard Crane and constructed by composer Irving Berlin and producer Sam H. Harris specifically to...
. (2007) - Ying Tong - Dir: Richard CottrellRichard CottrellRichard Cottrell is an English theatre director. He has been the Director of the Cambridge Theatre Company and the Bristol Old Vic in England, and of the Nimrod Theatre in Sydney, Australia...
. Sydney Theatre Company. (2007) - Hedda GablerHedda GablerHedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama...
- Dir: Robyn NevinRobyn NevinRobyn Anne Nevin AM , is an Australian stage and screen actress, and is considered by some as a doyenne of Australian theatre.- Early life :...
. Sydney Theatre Company. (2006) - The Real Thing - Dir: Robyn Nevin. Sydney Theatre Company. (2003)
- Waiting For GodotWaiting for GodotWaiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's...
- Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (2003) - CopenhagenCopenhagen (play)Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based around an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. It debuted in London in 1998...
- Dir: Michael Blakemore. Sydney Theatre Company. (2002) - The Judas Kiss - Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B and The Festival Of Sydney. (1999)
- Night On Bald Mountain - Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (1997)
- HamletHamletThe Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
- Dir: Neil Armfield. Company B. (1994)
Physical Theatre and Dance - Original Score and Sound Design
- Honour Bound - Dir: Nigel Jamieson, Chr: Garry StewartGarry StewartGarry Stewart has been the artistic director of the Australian Dance Theatre since 1999, following Meryl Tankard.Stewart studied at the Sydney City Ballet Academy and the Australian Ballet School...
. Sydney Opera HouseSydney Opera HouseThe Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...
and Malthouse TheatreMalthouse Theatre, MelbourneMalthouse Theatre is the resident theatre company of the Malthouse performing arts complex in Southbank, part of the Melbourne Arts Precinct....
. (2006) - Already Elsewhere - Chr: Kate ChampionKate ChampionKate Champion is a contemporary dance choreographer and the director of Force Majeure, a dance collective exploring strong physical performance.Champion began her dance training with Karen Kerkhoven and also studied in Munich...
. Force Majeure and Sydney FestivalSydney FestivalSydney Festival is Australia's largest and most attended annual cultural event running every January since it was first held in 1977. Its program features around 80 events including contemporary and classical music, dance, circus, drama, visual arts and artist talks...
. (2005) - DV8: The Cost Of Living / Can We Afford This? - Dir/Chr: Lloyd Newson. DV8 Physical TheatreDV8 Physical TheatreDV8 Physical Theatre is a dance company based at Artsadmin in London, UK. It was founded in 1986 by an independent collective of chiefly modern dancers. It is led by Lloyd Newson, whose intent has been to have a different approach to most contemporary dance than other existing companies...
. (2000) - Blood Vessel - Dir: Rachael Swain. Stalker Theatre Company. (1998)
Radio Features - Script and Music
- E-Dice: A Plan For Eurydice - Commissioned by ABC RadioABC Radio and Regional ContentABC Radio and Regional Content is the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for radio output and regional content.-Origins:...
. (1991) - A Fall - Commissioned by ABC Radio. (1991)
- The Touring Machine - Commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall...
. Co-produced by ABC Radio. (1989) - Remembrance Day - ABC Radio 'Surface Tension'. (1985)
SoliPsiK
- See Saw (single track) on Can’t Stop It 2 – Australian Post Punk 1979-84 (compilation), Chapter Music. (2006)
- Leichenschrei (1982)
- Zombod (single track) on "A Sampler" (compilation), M-Squared Records. (1982)
- See Saw (single), M-Squared Records. (1981)
Other Reading
- http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/sonic-boom/story-e6frg8n6-1226071211558
- http://www.aec.at/archiv_project_de.php?id=9036 (German)
- http://www.stage-directions.com/current-issue/61-sound-design/400-volley-up.html