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New album coming soon

The Soft Lights is a new project from Australian composer Paul Searles.

Formerly the keyboard player of Sydney funk band Skunkhour, he has scored films (James Cameron, Glen Goei), theatre (Wild Rice, Bangarra, Belvoir), made films (AFI/FTO director grants), won writing awards (NYC Midnight, Theatreworks) and played keyboards for well known artists (Jenny Morris, The Reels, The Sleepy Jackson, Jimmy Barnes). He is currently in-house composer at The Gunnery in Singapore.

This album deals with grief and trauma in a beautiful and gentle way, featuring strings from members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

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The Soft Lights is a new project from Australian composer Paul Searles.

Formerly the keyboard player of Sydney funk band Skunkhour, he has scored films (James Cameron, Glen Goei), theatre (Wild Rice, Bangarra, Belvoir), made films (AFI/FTO director grants), won writing awards (NYC Midnight, Theatreworks) and played keyboards for well known artists (Jenny Morris, The Reels, The Sleepy Jackson, Jimmy Barnes). He began his career in architecture. He is currently in-house composer at The Gunnery in Singapore.

This album deals with a few years of grief and trauma in a beautiful and gentle way, featuring strings from members of the Australian Chamber orchestra.

A teaser from our final string session in Sydney

 

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Some links to check out

Practice your typing while you read the classics.

Nick Cave answers questions.

A strangely addictive page which display beautiful graphics of all sorts of data.

Paul’s last album, hiding on Spotify.

This AI site improves the resolution of crap images.

These flat wound strings turned my cheap nylon guitar into a thing of beauty.

An article about this short screenplay I wrote which won the NYC competition a few years ago.

A bunch of moderately unusual modular synth jams by Paul.

A website which invents a new human every time you refresh. Characters for your screenplay? Imaginary friends?

 

 

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