Samuel Long

Conservatory-trained composer and sound designer, bridging the gap between experimental-classical and electronic music. Experience includes scoring for animated and live-action films and award-winning stage productions as well as producing and mixing for commercially released albums and audio engineering in both professional music and commercial studio environments.

• Finalist for the 2021 Bruno Maderna Award from the Conservatory of Fermo, Composition “Voices Through Time” premiered in Fermo Italy as part of competition
• Shortlisted for “STARTS4Water” Artist Residency from Cittadellarte in Biella, Italy, A proposed composition made in collaboration with climatologists to highlight the effects of climate change.
• Selected to Perform at IRCAM with Bernhard Lang at MANIFESTE 2022

• Liminal Space In Memoriam Phill Niblock 2024, Recorded by Hypercube Ensemble
• Environment for String Quartet and Tape 2023, Recorded by Lydian String Quartet
• Environments of Organosilicon, 2022, Berlin-based label Re:Natura Records, A synthetic sound ecosystem, governed entirely by the laws of mathematics and cybernetics.
• The Ears of a Soundless Being, 2022, Italian label Accannone Records, Made completely using the field recordings of Vigevano Italy, processed through various machine learning algorithms in order to demonstrate how an artificial intelligence may observe the world.
• Superposition, 2021, Swedish label Purlieu Recordings, Uses recordings of quantum computers, and sonification of quantum mathematics to create an audio walk through of the future of computing. The track was recorded in Cincinnati Ohio, May of 2020.
• Pangur Stripes, 2021, Berlin-based label Re:Natura, Made in tandem with custom machine learning algorithms
• Conversations for Human and AI, 2020, Made in collaboration with collective Artists 4 Peace, made in tandem with custom machine learning algorithms
• Music of the Spheres, 2019, Wrote, produced and mixed EP featuring radiation interference from space, translated into sound.

• Eggmen (Un Uovo Uomo), 2021, English and Spanish
• Meatcanyon, 2020-Present, Animated horror shorts for YouTube MeatCanyon garnering each over 5 million views
• Duino, 2020, Animated short SCENE Film Festival Winner Best Student Animation, Best Shorts Competition winner Award of Excellence
• The Terrifying, 2018-2019, Composer/Sound Designer, Scored, and designed sound for “The Terrifying,” an award-winning, 90-minute, experimental theatrical production. This project included both diegetic and non-diegetic music.
• Memories of Rain, 2019, Short, live-action film. Hollywood Blood Horror Festival: WINNER, Best Animated; Rome International Movie Awards: WINNER, Best First Time Director; Best LGBTQ Film; Thrills and Chills Film Awards: WINNER, Best Experimental Short
• Dying in Vein, 2017, Scored a short, documentary video for this project based on the book, “Dying in Vein: Blood, Deception …Justice,” about hemophiliacs who contracted HIV from tainted blood product.

Title: COMPOSER | SOUND DESIGNER