Artist & Composer

Aidan Wiess is an award winning composer and engineer with a breadth of genre experience. He uses each project as an opportunity to deconstruct and reinterpret sources of inspiration through his own voice, whether that be a temp score or an entire genre of music. 

 

In only a few years he’s written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered well over 100 songs, earned a handful of festival wins for only his second film comp gig, made his television debut and recorded live performers.

 

Since he was a preschooler, he recalls being more moved by soundtracks like Thomas Newman’s Finding Nemo than anything on the radio. Even at a young age he listened to soundtracks analytically, picking up on instrumentation, musical queues, how the music sat under dialogue, how it served the scene, and in the case of video games, how it looped and transitioned so effortlessly. 

 

He made his film score debut with Slave, a short horror film and finalist at NIYFA, using stock plugins. He quickly moved onto higher quality productions and recording live players for The Need, another short horror film that earned him 4 Best Original Score awards. 

 

He recorded live performers once again for Teasers for Tomorrow, an album coded to the stylings of trailer music, and made his television debut this Fall working on The Hallow Ian Horror Hour. His segments range from modern production to big band and vinyl emulations inspired by cartoons of the 1950’s. 

 

With experience producing everything from rock and pop to rap and comedy (even being hired by local rap artists to mix and master their albums), Wiess has a track record that demonstrates consistency in output, originality in voice and curiosity for every part of the creative process. 

 

Keep an eye out for his upcoming projects, which include a silent short film that he wrote, directed, starred and will compose for, as well as a high intensity fan film that he’s composing in collaboration with other writers.