tomandandy

Tomandandy was born on August 28th, 1985, at Princeton University. Consisting initially of Tom Hajdu and Andy Milburn, the group's earliest efforts were short electronic compositions created in the Princeton Computer Music Lab that same year. Their first job was creating the music for the groundbreaking MTV Europe/U.K.'s Channel 4 television series Buzz – the first of several collaborations with the director Mark Pellington, and a perfect match for the duo's aggressive use of music technology and fascination with popular culture. The subject matter of Buzz was media itself, setting tomandandy on a course of taboo-breaking and cultural self-examination which continues to define them.

Their striking and irreverent music and sound design work on Buzz attracted a generation of young advertising creative executives and filmmakers. Tomandandy became an iconic force in advertising music, innovating by using underground music to score television commercials.

From film editor Hank Corwin, they began learning about music for movies, working with Mr. Corwin first on Oliver Stone's JFK and then more extensively on the director's Natural Born Killers. Tomandandy's first complete film score was for Roger Avary's Killing Zoe; the aggressive, high-energy techno score brought them new followers.

At the same time, tomandandy began working with artists in other media and contexts, all over the world. They have contributed music to art installations, including ones by Jenny Holzer and The Starn Brothers; for other musicians, including David Byrne, Lou Reed, and Laurie Anderson; on music tours; for music videos' sound design; to fashion shows; and for educational projects.

Tomandandy's feature scores have included, for director Mark Pellington, The Mothman Prophecies, Arlington Road, Going All the Way, I Melt with You, and the telefilm Anatomy of Violence; for writer/director Roger Avary, Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction, and the telefilm Mr. Stitch; Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Afterlife and Resident Evil: Retribution; Alexandre Aja's The Hills Have Eyes; Chris Gorak's Right at Your Door; Jacob Estes' Mean Creek and The Details; Bryan Bertino's The Strangers; Keith Gordon's Waking the Dead; and, for Sinister 2 director Ciarán Foy, Citadel.

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