Biography

Sami El-Enany is a British Egyptian who works with sound, often negotiating the fringes of instrumental, electronic and field recording. His practice ranges widely from composition and sound design for screen, sound art, filmmaking, record production, songwriting and band-life.

El-Enany has worked extensively as a film composer. He has just completed his first Nollywood feature film score, Walking With Shadows, which explores the life of a gay man in Nigeria, and will have a theatrical release soon. Other recent scores include Phillip Wood's critically acclaimed documentaries on the nature of addiction, broadcast by the BBC multiple times: Chasing Dad: A lifelong Addiction (nominated for a Grierson Trust Award), and Rehab: Lives Addicted. His work on 'Latent' won 'Best Score' at the Best Independents International Film Festival 2016. El-Enany is a member of the film collective The Milo Wladek Co. a multi award-winning production company and an international collective of film and theatre makers.

He performs his own work, which is a manipulation of materials including first-hand field recordings, film score off-cuts, and hypnotic piano and synth improvisations all live mixed on tape. Recent tours include support for Orlando Week's Gritterman, in which he created a site-specific work at the Union Chapel in London as well as the Albert Hall in Manchester.

As a producer, he has just finished working on PNEUMA, a contemporary classical electroacoustic work by Samuel Jones that will have an international release this year.

His career started as a founding member of the pop band La Shark. They have toured the world and released strange and joyful records that have had extensive radio play, attracting a wide and diverse fan-base.

El-Enany made a film of an unsanctioned public reading of the Nauru Files outside Australia House, London entitled #NauruFilesReading. This was featured in the Guardian and shared widely. He is currently developing his first fiction feature film.

He has a Masters in Composition from the Royal College of Music as well as a BA in Music from Goldsmiths. He is a guest lecturer on the Decolonial Futures programme at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. He is a member of the film collective The Milo Wladek Co. a multi-award winning production company and an international collective of film and theatre makers. His work has been performed by The Budapest Art Orchestra, members of the LCO, LSO and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.
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