A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Born:
September 7, 1979
Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist, who performs solo as Owen Pallett or, before 2010, under the name Final Fantasy. As Final Fantasy, he won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds. From the age of 3, Pallett studied classical violin, and composed his first piece at age 13. A notable early composition includes some of the music for the game Traffic Department 2192; he moved on to scoring films, to composing two operas while in university. Apart from the indie music scene, he has had commissions from the Barbican, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Ballet of Canada, Bang on a Can, Ecstatic Music Festival, the Vancouver CBC Orchestra, and Fine Young Classicals. On his Final Fantasy releases, Pallett has collaborated with Leon Taheny, who is credited as drummer and engineer. Following the release of Heartland, Pallett has toured with guitarist/percussionist Thomas Gill and more recently with his former collaborators in Les Mouches, Rob Gordon and Matt Smith. Pallett has been noted for his live performances, wherein he plays the violin into a loop pedal. Pallett uses Max/MSP and SooperLooper to do multi-phonic looping, which sends his violin signal to amplifiers across the stage. In January 2014, Pallett and William Butler were nominated for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their work on Her.
Conductor:
2009 The Box
Music:
2009 The Box
2010 14 Actors Acting
2015 Take Flight
2018 Heritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery
2019 Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Musician:
2009 The Box
2010 14 Actors Acting
2015 Take Flight
2018 Heritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery
2019 Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
2020 The Great Malaise
Original Music Composer:
2007 Loudly, Death Unties
2009 The Box
2010 14 Actors Acting
2013 Her
2014 The Wait
2015 Life
2015 Take Flight
2018 Heritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery
2019 Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
2020 Spaceship Earth
2020 The Great Malaise
2022 Alice, Darling
2022 On the Count of Three
2023 Dream Scenario
2024 Longing
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