Tomandandy
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Origin | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Genres | Film score, soundtrack, trance music |
Years active | 1990-present |
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Website | www |
Tomandandy is an American
Background
Andy Milburn was born in Texas and attended Princeton University. 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 United States to work on his graduate studies at Princeton University.[citation needed]
Career
Milburn and Hajdu moved to New York after graduating 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.[citation needed]
In 1992, Tomandandy appeared on the
In 2009, Tomandandy won Best Horror Score (runner-up) in Fangoria's Chainsaw Award[5] for their score to The Strangers.
In 2020, Tomandandy's Tom Hajdu reflected on The Strangers soundtrack during an interview.[6]
Selected discography
Other works
- Zoo TV: Live from Sydney (1994)
- "You'll Know You Were Loved" - Friends Original TV Soundtrack - Reprise, 1995
- "In Our Sleep" - Warner Bros., 1995
- "Cartridgemusic" from Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip - TVT, 1996
- "It Goes Back" - David Byrne from Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip - TVT, 1996
- United States of Poetry - PolyGram, 1996
- "Old Western Movies" - collaboration with William S. Burroughs from Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness - Ryko, 1997
- Family Tools (2013) (TV series theme)
Film scores
References
- ^ Schweiger, Daniel. "Industry Spotlight: Tom Hajdu, the Resident "T" in Tomandandy". Film Music Magazine.
- ISBN 978-1935247142.
- ^ Ho, Richard (14 April 2006). "Two's Company: The Return of Tomandandy". Ad Age.
- ^ Pener, Degen (2 August 1992). "Making Music (Boom, Boom) On Computers". The New York Times.
- ^ "Chainsaw Awards 2009". IMDB.
- ^ Regev, Nir (24 July 2020). "tomandandy's Tom Hajdu reflects on 'The Strangers' soundtrack (Interview)". The Natural Aristocrat.
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