DrAndrew Callaghan

I'm currently working on a book covering scoring practices of film composers such as John Williams, Howard Shore, Marco Beltrami and Alexandre Desplat. It will investigate music for films 'based on true stories'. I'm also creating the score for a new digital theatre project and continuing the development of two large-scale interactive works for children and babies.

Recent music and sound design:

Things that Were and Will Be (2026): Situated musical work in collaboration with SCM composers

Happy Campers (2025-ongoing): Interactive music installation, Sydney Opera House Centre for Creativity and Bondi Pavilion

Best. Party. Ever. (2024): Online theatre performance, Threshold and ArtPlay, Composer and Sound Designer

Shift Change (2023): Public Sound/Music Installation at the Unconformity Festival, Sole Artist

The Composers (2023): Public installation development at the Substation, Principal Artist

The Grand Revue (2022), Online Theatre Performance for Threshold, Principal Artist

Art Blast (2021): Streaming TV, ABC (1 episode), Composer

R.O.F.L.S.A.L.B.O.W.C.O. (2019): Live Theatre Performance (National/International Venues), Composer

Invisible Orchestra (2019), Public Musical Installation at Arts Centre Melbourne, Principal Artist

Denise Asks Awkward Questions (2022): Podcast for Jean Hailes, Recordist, Composer, Sound and Engineering

Jean Hailes Podcast (2022): for Jean Hailes, Recordist, Composer, Sound and Engineering

The Legend of Burnout Barry (2019): TV Show, ABC, Composer

The Listies' Totally Serious 100% Fact Filled Guide to the Melbourne Museum (2019): Audio Guide, Sound and Engineering

Mermates (2019): Podcast, May Jasper, Sound Designer, Recording, Editing, Mixing and Mastering

Foamers (2019): Podcast, May Jasper, Sound Designer, Recording, Editing, Mixing and Mastering

Publications

"Realism and the Inaudible Score for 'Spotlight.'" Context: Journal of Music Research 42 (2017): 53-66.

Select Conference Presentations

2026 MSMI Conference, Manchester: Rethinking Sneaky Music: Reviewing Screen Music and Attention. Position paper & panellist. 

2026 MSMI Conference, Manchester: “Put the audience into the soldiers’ shoes”: Rhetoric and (in)audibile music in The Hurt Locker (2008)

2024 Annual Conference of the Australian Musicological Society: “Put the audience into the soldiers’ shoes”: Rhetoric and (in)audibile music in The Hurt Locker (2008)

2022 Annual Conference of the Australian Musicological Society: Anwar Loved to Dance: Musical Truth Claims in The Act of Killing

2021 Annual Conference of the Australian Musicological Society: "I Want Veracity": Henry Jackman's Score for Captain Philips

2020 MAMI Conference, NYU: The Sonorous Mould: Indexicality, Inaudibility and Truth Claims in Hildur Guðnadóttir's Score for Chernobyl

2019 MAMI Conference, NYU: Anwar Loved to Dance: Musical Truth Claims and The Act of Killing

2017 MAMI Conference, NYU: Hiding in Plain Sound: Inaudible Techniques in Alexandre Desplat's Argo Soundtrack