MARTIN ARMIGER
Head of Screen Composition
Award winning film composer Martin Armiger has been writing for the screen for more than thirty years. Early works still attracting interest include Bert Delings notorious 1975 feature about heroin users, (Pure Shit, re-released in 2009 by Beyond Films,) and Jan Chapman's series about rock musicians (Sweet and Sour, ABC 1984) which will have its soundtrack re-released this year. Other projects include Clubland, Thank God He Met Lizzie, Young Einstein, Sweetie, The Secret Life of Us, Marking Time, Come In Spinner and Police Rescue. His last film was Mark Lewis' 3D documentary feature Cane Toads: The Conquest, (to be released in 2010) and he composed the current on air music for ABC TV News. He is Head of Screen Music at AFTRS.
Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Majors Drama and Philosophy, Flinders University, South Australia
Lecturer, Screen Composition - AFTRS
Lecturer in Film Music, Canberra Institute of Technology
Director, Martin Armiger & Company
Director, Regular Music (in association with Mushroom
Publishing)
Director, Two Guys In a Mustang Pty Ltd (Film Music Rights &
Services in association with Martin Fabinyi)
Musician/Songwriter for The Sports, The Bleeding Hearts, The High
Rise Bombers and The Toads - Recorded 6 albums and toured
Australia, US and UK
Freelance Writer for Sydney Morning Herald, the Melbourne Age,
Heat and national times
Columnist for FMG Magazine, Xpress
Australian Guild of Screen Composers, Past President
Arts Law Centre NSW, Past Board Member
AFI Awards Advisory Committee, Past Member
Screenrights: The Australian Audio-Visual Copyright Agency, Board
Member
AGSC, Special Award for contribution to Australian Screen
music,
Nominated APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards, Marking Time,
2003
Nominated, AFI Best Music for a Feature Film, Thank God He Met
Lizzie, 1998
Nominated, AGSC Best Music for Animation, Ketchup,
1998
APRA Best Music for Television, Cody, 1996
ARIA Best Adult Contemporary Album, Come in Spinner,
1992
Nominated, ARIA Best Album, Come in Spinner, 1992
AGSC Best Music for a Mini-series, Children of the
Dragon, 1992
AGSC Best Music for a Series, Police Rescue, 1990
Nominated, Best Music for Miniseries, Bodysurfer,
1989
Nominated, AGSC, Best Music for TV Series, Police Rescue,
1989
Nominated, APRA Best TV Theme Police Rescue, 1988
AFI Best Music for a Feature Film, Young Einstein,
1986
ABC Countdown, Record Producer of the Year, 1984
ABC Countdown Awards, The Sports, Best New Band, 1978
Platinum Record Award, Producer, Be My Baby, the Teen
Queens
Platinum Record Award, Producer, Come in Spinner, Grace
Knight and Vince Jones
Platinum Record Award, Producer, There's a Bear in There,
Play School ABC TV
Platinum Record Award, Producer, You've Always Got the
Blues, Kate Ceberano and Wendy Matthews
Record Award, Producer, Oomba Baroomba, Play School ABC
TV
Record Award, Producer, Sweet and Sour, ABC TV series
soundtrack
Gold Record Award, Sweet and Sour 2, ABC TV series
soundtrack
Gold Record Award, D-d-d-dance, The Allniters
Gold Record Award, Sondra, The Sports
Gold Record Award , Suddenly, The Sports
Gold Record Award, Don't Throw Stones, The Sports
Published Music - Record Producing Credits
Marking Time, with John Butler & Others, Record
Producer
Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Dance Company, Record Producer
Soundtrack - Thank God He Met Lizzie, Record
Producer
Penny Flanagan - Seven Flights Up, Record Producer
Penny Flanagan - Bravado, Record Producer
Ballet Soundtrack - Fornicon, Record Producer
Deborah Conway, Renee Geyer, Paul Kelly Soundtrack - Seven
Deadly Sins, Record Producer
Teen Queens - Teen Queens, Record Producer
Gondwanaland - Wide Skies, Record Producer
Club Hoy - Thursday's Fortune, Record Producer
Grace Knight and Vince Jones - Come in Spinner, Record
Producer
Soundtrack - The Crossing, Record Producer
Paul Kelly - Dumb Things, Record Producer
Wendy Matthews & Kate Ceberano - You've Always Got The
Blues, Record Producer
Soundtrack - Illusions, Record Producer
Benders - Distance, Record Producer
Soundtrack - Dancing Daze, Record Producer
Deckchairs Overboard - Deckchairs Overboard, Record
Producer
Hello Hello - Taking it All Away, Record Producer
Soundtrack - Sweet and Sour, Record Producer
Stephen Cummings - Senso, Record Producer
Austen Tayshus - When the Ticklers Stopped Quivering,
Record Producer
Allniters - D-d-d-dance, Record Producer
The Kevins - Club of Rome, Record Producer
Paul Kelly and The Dots - Talk, Record Producer
Johnny Topper - Beatnick Twist, Record Producer
Clubland, Feature, 2007, Composer
ABC News and Current Affairs Themes, Composer
Marking Time, TV Mini-series, 2003, Composer
Hildegarde, Feature, 2001, Composer
The Secret Life of Us, Telemovie and Episodes 1 & 2,
2001, Composer
Hard Knox, Telemovie, 2001, Composer
DarkCity, Feature, 2000, Arranger
The White Devil, Music for Sydney Theatre Company, 2000,
Composer
Powderburn, Feature, 1999, Composer
Fetch, Short film, 1999, Composer
House Gang, SBS TV comedy series, 1999, Composer
David Carradine's Martial Arts Adventure, Documentary,
1999, Composer
Two Girls and a Baby, Short film, 1998, Composer
Ketchup, 65-part animation series, 1998, Composer
The Great Stumble Forward, Documentary, 1998,
Composer
Thank God He Met Lizzie, Feature, 1997, Composer
Wild Ones, Documentary series, 1997, Composer
And Yes, Dance theatre, 1997, Composer
String Quartet #1 for Electra String Group, 1997,
Composer
Fornices, Full length ballet for Sydney Dance Company,
1996, Composer
Cody: Fall From Grace, Telemovie, 1996, Composer
Where Angels Feat to Tread, Documentary, 1996,
Composer
Cody: The Wrong Stuff, Telemovie, 1995, Composer
Cody: The Burn Out, Telemovie, 1995, Composer
Party Girls, Documentary, 1995, Composer
Missa Brevis, for The Song Company, Australian tour,
1995, Composer
Coriolanus, for Sydney Theatre Company, 1995, Composer
'Til There Was You, Feature, 1994, Arranger
Cody: the Tipoff, Telemovie, 1994, Composer
Cody: Bad Love, Telemovie, 1994, Composer
Seven Deadly Sins ('Greed" and 'Envy'), Mini-series,
1993, Composer
Nice Guys Finish Last, Documentary, 1993, Composer
The Other Side of Paradise, Mini-series, 1992, Composer
Fremantle Conspiracy, Mini-series, 1992, Composer
Children of the Dragon, Mini-series, 1991, Composer
Flowers and the WideSea, Documentary, 1991,
Composer
Waiting, Feature film, 1991, Composer
Come in Spinner, Mini-series, 1990, Composer
Wonderful World of Dogs - Documentary, 1990,
Composer
Ring of Scorpio, Mini-series, 1990, Composer
The Crossing, Feature, 1990, Composer
Bodysurfer, Mini-series, 1989, Composer
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy, Mini-series, 1989,
Composer
Sweetie, Feature, 1989, Composer
The Last Resort, TV Series, 1988, Composer
Stringer, TV Mini-series, 1988, Composer
Young Einstein, Feature, 1988, Co-Composer
Police Rescue, TV series, 1988-90, Composer
Cane Toads, feature Documentary, 1988, Composer
Manning Clark's History of Australia - The Musical, 1988,
Script Editor/ Composer
Relative Merits, TV Series, 1987, Composer
Perhaps Love, Telemovie, 1987, Composer
I've Come About the Suicide, Feature, 1987,
Composer
The Challenge, TV Mini-series, 1986, Composer
I Own the Racecourse, Feature, 1986, Composer
Two Friends, Telemovie, 1986, Composer
Cyclone Tracy, TV Mini-series, 1986, Composer
Dancing Daze, TV Series, 1986, Composer
Illusion, Adelaide Festival of Arts, 1986, Composer
The Empty Beach, Feature, 1985, Composer
The Lizard King, Telemovie, 1985, Composer
Sweet and Sour, TV Series, 1984, Composer
Displaced Persons, Telemovie, 1984, Composer
White Man's Legend, Telemovie, 1984, Composer
Belau, TV Documentary, 1983, Composer
Pure S, Feature, 1976, Composer
A Night in Rio, Musical for The Pram Factory, 1975,
Melbourne, Composer
