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Chiara Kickdrum

Summer–Autumn (2021–22) Brand Reel

Chiara is a music composer and producer born and raised in Torino, Italy and now based in Australia. She has recently composed the original soundtrack for feature film Long Story Short (2021). She has also composed the original score for All These Creatures, subsequently winning the Palme D'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival 2018, as well as for the Second season of Stan original series The Other Guy, SBS TV mini series The Unusual Suspects and ABC’s Preppers.

Chiara Kickdrum - image credit Boa Campbell

Image credit: Boa Campbell

Chiara was classically trained in piano in Italy and was later exposed to electronic music after moving to Melbourne in 2004. Her work now ranges across composing and producing music and sound design for film and TV commercials, creating electronic music for live performance, composing soundscapes for immersive environments and art installations, and the experimental use of field recordings with analogue and digital synthesis.

In the past couple of years, Chiara has been a sessional lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne in the Creative Music Technology Department and tutor at the Melbourne University Conservatorium of Music in the Interactive Composition department.

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