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Paul Searles is an award winning composer and music producer.

Best known for his Gold Record “Feed” he toured internationally with his band Skunkhour (1992) signed to Sony, Acid Jazz, and Universal.

He is currently a composer and sound designer at The Gunnery in Singapore, one of Asia’s leading audio houses. He has composed for Film Directors such as James Cameron, and worked with famed musicians such as Bob Dylan, The Sleepy Jackson, Jenny Morris and The Reels. He is a regular sound designer and composer with Singapore's Wild Rice Theatre Company.

As a screenwriter, he recently won the 2016 NYC Midnight challenge. He has also explored Film Directing and Production, creating videos for various charities in the region.
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Check out some music
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Read his blog on Medium
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Read an article by Paul on the Save The Cat screenwriting website.

Check out Paul's winning entries on the NYC Midnight Screenwriting challenge.

Here's an interview with Wild Rice about sound design for their In The Spotlight festival


M U S I C

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"A subject close to my heart. I used a Canon 5D to take the pictures in the background of this site. The strings are programmed…"
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Canon
Stay Curious



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"Cute vocals by Singaporean Jill-Marie Thomas on this CCA winner."
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Metro
Manifesto
Winner CCA Bronze for Composition



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"Blockbuster film trailer style for Starhub HD, one of Singapore’s major cable networks."
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Starhub
Home of HD



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"I love this spot, one simple idea beautifully executed."


"A bunch of people like this tried to play it after they heard it. "
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CIMB
Malaysian Golf Challenge



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"I wrote three trailers for my friend Richard Clarke’s documentary festival. Always great fun, open brief and awesome pictures of real stuff."


"This one won Bronze for composition in the 2014 CCA awards."
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Endeavours Film Festival
Trailer 2013
Winner Bronze CCA, Composition



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"I wrote three trailers for my friend Richard Clarke’s documentary festival. Always great fun, open brief and awesome pictures of real stuff."
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Endeavours Film Festival
Trailer 2014



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"I wrote three trailers for my friend Richard Clarke’s documentary festival. Always great fun, open brief and awesome pictures of real stuff."
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Endeavours Film Festival
Trailer 2015



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"Orchestral score for a Singapore Government baby making campaign from 2013."
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Ministry of Health
Parenthood



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"Music and sound design for this very fast turnaround Mercedes spot."
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Mercedes
Stormchaser



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Viacom
Sizzle reel



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"This was a very successful campaign, I even ended up doing a Deepavali version of the track."

A few people even posted their own versions online, way cool."
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Starhub
Family Time



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Canon
EOS Architect



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"This was great fun, the kind of music my dad played all the time when I was little."
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Carlton Hotel
Baby



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Coke
Road to Hope



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"Trailer for the Wild Rice production of Romeo and Juliet. I composed the music and sound design for this play as well. It was an awesome way to hang out with some of the best actors in the country."
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Wild Rice
Romeo and Juliet Trailer




F I L M S

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"In 2014 I travelled with Professor Kevin McGuigan from RCSI to document his SODIS water purification program in Ethiopia. It was an amazing trip and I was lucky to be able to help with such a practical and useful undertaking.

I cut this together for a friend to try and kickstart a schools sponsorship program which turned out to be very difficult to get off the ground. It would have been a great bonus.

Shot on my 5Dmkii with a Rode video mic."
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Ethiopia School
Charity activation.



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"I directed, shot, edited, scored and mixed this one, produced at The Gunnery. Grading and titles by Gravitate."
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S3 Stroke Centre
Centre opening video



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"A hobby of mine is making videos for various charities.

I’ve done a few things for my friends on Nikoi Island who run an excellent charity which supports the local Bintan community.

I love the Jong boats, I used to make boats out of bamboo when I was a kid."
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Jong race
The Island Foundation



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"A quick self-interview about my live score for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis at The Projector."
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Metropolis
Live Film Score



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"I shot and edited this backstage footage for fun, but I think It captures the mood. I love watching actors do their thing backstage during a show.

I wrote this music as a possible intro for the play, using the opening stanza. But theatre twists and turns like a crazy worm so it didn’t make it in the end."
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Wild Rice
Backstage Teaser



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"Wrote this music for a beautiful multi-screen video work by local team Light and Shadows. I made this little film as an attempt to represent it."
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Asia Square
Lights and Shadows Installation



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"I was pretty excited when i got a phone that could shoot video (back in 2005) so I made this little film one afternoon, shooting my piano student Calypso and bits and pieces on the way home.

Despite the primitive pixel dimensions it was screened at a digital film festival." the pixels were as big as cows. Despite this I’m still happy to share it, because it still seems to get an emotional response out of people.

The orchestra was Garageband on a laptop but I think it does the trick anyway.
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The Return
My first “film”