Animated screen work featuring music and sound by Sam Cutri
Selected work

Film · Animation · Documentary · Post-production

Screen Composition
+ Sound Design

Music and sound built around story, movement, character and the emotional architecture of the screen.

01 / Sound for Picture

Every frame has
an inner rhythm.

The score does not sit behind the story. It changes how the story is felt.

Sam composes original music and creates complete sound worlds for film, animation and documentary. The work moves between melody, texture, silence, foley and designed sound, always responding to the emotional logic of the image.

With experience across both music production and full audio post-production, he can hold the sonic language of a project from its earliest ideas through to the final mix.

Ocean Floor Music digital visual environment
Sound, image and world-building

02 / World Building

Story is also space.

A convincing screen world must sound as though it continues beyond the frame.

Composition, ambience, sonic detail and dynamic movement work together to establish place. The result can be intimate or expansive, but it must remain coherent with the visual language and the human story at its centre.

Behind the Work

Production, collaboration
and recognition.

03 / Selected Work

Music, sound
and final detail.

The Argentinian Escape

West Australian Screen Awards · 2013

Original composition · Complete audio

Winner of Best Score, with an original score and integrated sound world developed around animation, character, movement and comic timing.

WANIMATE

Animation sound · 2020 to 2023

Composition · Sound design · Final mix

Three awards recognising complete animation sound across composition, designed sound, performance detail and final delivery.

Animation + Film

Multiple productions

Composition · Sound design · Foley

Complete audio work spanning musical themes, performance detail, environmental sound and the final relationship between dialogue, music and effects.

Documentary

Story-led composition

Score · Edit · Mix

Music and sonic environments shaped to support testimony, memory, place and the pace of real human stories.

04 / Approach

Sound in service of story

Listen to the image.

The right sound does more than explain what is visible. It reveals what the image cannot say on its own.

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Story moves
into place.