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Rob’s currently working on the score for “Morocco to Israel”, a short by Avital Epstein about families of Berber Jews that emigrated from Morocco after the formation of Israel in 1948 and the independence of Morocco in 1956. It’s a neat film that blends interviews with family members to create a single narrative.
The Kusiak Music score for The Fall of the Wall, a documentary on the history of the Berlin Wall is complete. The film airs on June 28th on PBS. Check out a couple of cues Rob worked on here.
Rob recently completed the score for “The Exchange”, a short film by Paul Hirschberger and NTL films. It’s a modern-day film noir about customer service in the button pushing business. The score’s is a very cool ambient electronic/jazz amalgam. Check out some audio clips from the score here.
Rob completed the score for “I Found Your Wallet”, a short-film from director Samuel Mordenga about an old woman with a unique way of making new friends. The film is nominated for a National Board of Review grant.
A couple of nice pieces on John Kusiak appeared in recent issues of Electronic Musician and Wicked Local. Many thanks to him for the kind mentions!
Over at Kusiak Music we’re working on a new film for the great Errol Morris (Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line), A Very Special Love Story. It’s a documentary about a 1970′s tabloid story involving the abduction and sexual bondage of a mormon missionary in the United Kingdom by his ex-lover, a southern beauty queen.
The Nationwide Insurance spot Rob co-wrote, “Do Things Better” for the On Your Side advertising campaign is now on television and the internet. The spot was directed by Errol Morris.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum officially opened in April of 2009. Rob created some sound design for the opening and closing films of the main exhibition, which includes eleven short films produced by Northern Light Productions that tell the history of the Holocaust and stories from survivors living in the Chicago area.
Rob’s Directed Study final project, Transit, was first runner-up in the spring 2009 Academy Rewards for outstanding achievement in Directed Study. The Academy Rewards are a semi-annual competition among graduating film scoring students at Berklee. Film scores are nominated by professors and then voted on by the graduating film scoring class.
