- A multi-genre composer, sound designer and music editor, Billy Mallery draws a wide variety of projects ranging from feature films to corporate logos, and has been considered by many to be a "one stop shop" given his skills in both music and sound. His experience scoring national commercials at the start of his career led him to diversify as an artist and produce numerous styles of music. Within five years out of college he had composed and arranged for full orchestras, scored his first feature film and won both CLIO and AICP awards for excellence in original music and sound design.
Billy has scored and edited the works of directors David Fincher, Michael Bay, Janusz Kaminski and Zack Snyder, and has collaborated with such companies as Lionsgate, Microsoft and Lucasfilm.
His score for the Lionsgate Logo, performed by the Seattle Symphony and Choir, was released with the film "Catching Fire" (The Hunger Games) and earned him a Mobius Award and HMMA Award nomination.
The Earth Communications Office (ECO), known for producing global-awareness content, chose Billy to score Hidden City, which was translated into 13 languages and released in theaters and on television worldwide. He was honored to be selected as composer following ECO's critically acclaimed production The Power of One, composed by Hans Zimmer.
Billy's wide range of experience in music production, scoring and music editing has earned him invitations to speak on entertainment industry panels at UCLA and his alma mater Syracuse University. He has served as a juror for the CLIO Awards and is featured in the feature documentary The Universal Language which explores the power of music within our culture and our history.
Originality remains Billy's primary driving force.
- IMDb mini biography by: Stephanie Lu
- Frequently merges music with sound within his scores
- Has a distinct androgynous-sounding singing voice, and is known to create vocal "textures" within his scores and songs.
- Performs piano, dulcimer, guitar and percussion on his scores; occasionally creates vocal textures
- Prefers to create original 'palettes' for each film before beginning the scoring process
- Founded and produces the musical project Hover.
- Is also a published photographer and painter.
- Has played and toured with the groups Vas, The Indians, Southpaw and Hummingbird, contributing keyboards, accordion, vocals, percussion, acoustic guitar and Tuvan Chanting (harmonic singing).
- Has worked with renowned vocalists Anonymous 4, Yungchen Lhamo, Azam Ali (Mickey Hart, Vas), Miranda Lee Richards and veteran session singers Oren Waters (Madagascar) and Maxine Waters Willard (The Lion King (1994)).
- Played in a band for many years with writer/director Dito Montiel, and co-composed his first film score with him.
- I try to take out the boundary between music and sound.
- Let the film score itself.
- Much beauty yet to be discovered!
- I do not try to sound different or unique just for the sake of that. I just choose to be uninhibited while telling a story musically.
- I thoroughly enjoy storytelling with music and sounds.
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