Eden Mulholland

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Eden Mulholland (born 1979) is a New Zealand composer, musician and dancer. He was a founder of the band Motocade and composes for dance and the World of Wearable Art show.

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Early life and education

Mulholland was born in 1979. [1] He grew up in Christchurch and attended Shirley Boys' High School. [2] He came from a musical household: his father was in a band, his mother played the piano, all of the five children played and sang and he later played in bands with his older brothers Will and Jol. [3] [4] As a child he learnt ballet, studying with Russell Kerr and then completing a performing arts degree at Unitec where he graduated in 1998. [3] [4]

Career

In his career as a dancer Mulholland worked with choreographers Ann Dewey and Sean Durham, and dance companies Touch Compass and Black Grace. [3] [4] [5]

In 2003, when he spent time in London, Mulholland began to compose electronic music and decided to concentrate on music composition. [4] [6] On returning to New Zealand he founded the indie–rock band Motocade with his brother Will. [6] He also played in the indie band the Mots with another brother Jol. [3] [7] New Zealand filmmaker Martha Jeffries, who has directed and produced television for National Geographic and Disney Plus, directed the video for Motocade's Commandeering (2009) [8] and three of Mulholland's solo tracks Beside Itself (2014), [9] River of Hurt (2014) [10] and Utopia (2015). [11]

As a composer of dance music Mulholland has worked with the companies Atamira Dance Company and Okareka Dance led by Taiaroa Royal and Taane Mete. [4] Choreographers Michael Parmenter, Sarah Foster-Sproull and Malia Johnston have commissioned him to write works [5] [3] [4] and he has composed three ballet scores for Foster-Sproull including To Hold and Autumn Ball. [5] [12] His album Music for Dance includes sounds tracks from Johnston's dance works. [4] He composed the score of Meremere (2016) a dance piece performed by wheelchair dancer Rodney Bell and directed by Malia Johnston. [13] [14] In 2018, he collaborated with Johnston and video artist Rowan Pierce to create Rushes a combination of live music and dance and video art performed in multiple spaces. [15] [16]

Mulholland composed the music for the opening ceremony of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup held in New Zealand and Australia. [17] From 2022 to 2024, he has been the composer and music director for the World of Wearable Art show in Wellington. [5] [18] [19]

Mulholland currently lives in Brisbane. [5]

Awards and honours

Mulholland has won two awards at the Wellington Theatre Awards: in 2018 he won the Sound Designer of the Year for Meremere and Rushes, [20] and in 2019 he won the Constance Scott Kirkcaldie Award for Outstanding Composer of Music for the dance work Orchids. [21]

Discography

References

  1. ↑ Yeoman, Paula (21 June 2009). "Oh brother". Herald on Sunday. p. 13.
  2. ↑ Dann, Jennifer (28 February 2017). "Twelve Questions with Eden Mulholland". The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Jenkin, Lydia (31 May 2013). "Eden Mulholland: Mulholland Drive". The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Horsley, Francesca (Autumn 2010). "The music of dance". DANZ Quarterly. 19: 8–9.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Life after rock and roll with Eden Mulholland". RNZ . 30 July 2024. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 "Musician hard to pigeonhole". Dominion Post. 20 February 2010.
  7. 1 2 Johnstone, Andrew (October 2015). "Hunted haunted: the unique musical stylings of Eden Mulholland". Rip It up: 16.
  8. ↑ "June 2009: Like You Crazy, Minuit, Motocade, One-Two, Over The Atlantic, Rhian Sheehan". 5000ways.co.nz. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  9. ↑ "Eden Mulholland - Beside Itself". YouTube . Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  10. ↑ "Go Behind The Scenes With Eden Mulholland At His 'River Of Hurt' Video Shoot" . Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  11. ↑ "Eden Mulholland - Utopia". YouTube . Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  12. ↑ Fox, Rebecca (8 April 2021). "The colour of creativity". Otago Daily Times . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  13. ↑ "Meremere – Christchurch Arts Festival 2019". my.christchurchcitylibraries.com. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  14. ↑ Stevenson, Jenny (18 October 2016). "Meremere review". DANZ. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  15. ↑ Whyte, Raewyn (14 January 2017). "Dance review: Rushes". The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  16. ↑ Ford, Monique (2 March 2018). "Arts Fest: Rushes not bound by a single genre". Stuff . Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  17. 1 2 Es, Roberto (11 December 2023). "Eden Mulholland music & mischief". New Zealand Woman's Day– via Press Reader.
  18. ↑ Chumko, Andre (16 August 2023). "World of Wearable Arts announces five headline artists for 2023". Stuff . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  19. ↑ "WOW behind the scenes: Eden Mulholland". www.thepost.co.nz. 23 September 2024. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  20. ↑ "Wellington Theatre Awards 2018 Winners". thebigidea.nz. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  21. ↑ "Wellington Theatre Awards 2019". The Big Idea. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  22. ↑ Mills, Amanda (June–July 2013). "Dancing with the beast". New Zealand Musician. 17 (7): 10–11.
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