Tomandandy

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Tomandandy
Origin New York City, New York, U.S.
Genres Film score, soundtrack, trance music
Years active1990-present
Members
  • Andy Milburn
  • Thomas Hajdu
Website www.tomandandy.com

Tomandandy is an American musical duo from New York City, consisting of members Thomas Hajdu and Andy Milburn. While they are best known for their work scoring films, [1] [2] the duo has also produced music for television commercials [3] and programs, records and art installations. [4]

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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 Red Hot Organization's dance compilation album, Red Hot + Dance , contributing an original dance track, "Theme From Red Hot & Dance (Gothic Mix)." The album attempted to raise awareness and money in support of the AIDS epidemic, and all proceeds were donated to AIDS charities.[ citation needed ]

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

Film scores

YearTitleDirectorNotes
1993 Killing Zoe Roger Avary
1995 Mr. Stitch Television film
1997 Going All the Way Mark Pellington
2000 Waking the Dead Keith Gordon Composed with Scott Shields
2002 The Mothman Prophecies Mark Pellington
The Rules of Attraction Roger Avary
2003 Faster Mark Neale
2004 Mean Creek Jacob Aaron Estes
Freshman Orientation Ryan Shiraki
2005Love, LudlowAdrienne Weiss
2006 Right at Your Door Chris Gorak
The Hills Have Eyes Alexandre Aja
The Covenant Renny Harlin
2007 P2 Franck Khalfoun
2008 Sleep Dealer Alex Rivera
The Strangers Bryan Bertino
The Echo Yam Laranas
2009 The Good Guy Julio DePietroComposed with Kurt Oldman
2010 Resident Evil: Afterlife Paul W. S. Anderson
And Soon the Darkness Marcos Efron
2011 I Melt with You Mark Pellington
The Details Jacob Aaron Estes
Fastest Mark Neale
2012 Citadel Ciaran Foy
The Apparition Todd Lincoln
Resident Evil: Retribution Paul W. S. Anderson
2013Blaze You OutMateo Frazier
Diego Joaquin Lopez
Innocence Hilary Brougher
2014 Animal Brett Simmons
Girl House Trevor Matthews
7 Minutes Jay Martin
2015 H8RZ Derrick Borte
Sinister 2 Ciaran Foy
2016 Havenhurst Andrew C. Erin
The Monster Bryan Bertino
City of Joy Madeleine GavinComposed with Lokua Kanza
2017 47 Meters Down Johannes Roberts
Wish Upon John R. Leonetti
2019 The Wolf's Call Antonin Baudry
The Silence John R. Leonetti
47 Meters Down: Uncaged Johannes Roberts
Haunt Scott Beck
Bryan Woods
Lucky Day Roger Avary

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References

  1. Schweiger, Daniel. "Industry Spotlight: Tom Hajdu, the Resident "T" in Tomandandy". Film Music Magazine.
  2. Fichera, J.Blake (1 July 2016). Scored To Death: Conversations with Some of Horror's Greatest Composers. Silman-James Press. pp. 352–403. ISBN   978-1935247142.
  3. Ho, Richard (14 April 2006). "Two's Company: The Return of Tomandandy". Ad Age.
  4. Pener, Degen (2 August 1992). "Making Music (Boom, Boom) On Computers". The New York Times.
  5. "Chainsaw Awards 2009". IMDB.
  6. Regev, Nir (24 July 2020). "tomandandy's Tom Hajdu reflects on 'The Strangers' soundtrack (Interview)". The Natural Aristocrat.