Original Music for Film/TV/Videogames

Known for creating poignant soundscapes, Emer Kinsella has been involved in critically-acclaimed films, television series and live performances. Having played violin since the age of two, her scores often combine introspective strings with electronic sounds and ambient vocals. In 2023, she was nominated for the Hollywood Music and Media Awards and the Music and Sound Awards and in 2021, she won Best Score for ‘In Orbit’ at the Venice Shorts Festival and the Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest festival and was the first recipient of the SESAC/New Music USA Reel Change grant award to create her score to the psychological feature thriller ‘She The Creator’. Emer's credits include additional music for Amanda Jones on ‘Dreamland - The Burning of  Black Wall Street’ (CNN) ‘From Cradle To Stage’ (Dave Grohl, Paramount Plus), American Horror Stories Anthology, working with Johnny Klimek on the hit Netflix series "Sense8" (written by The Wachowskis); the drama thriller "Jungle" starring Daniel Radcliffe; as well as with composer Andrew Kawczynski on Netflix’s ‘Go Karts’ and ‘The Eight Hundred’. Her recent feature credits include the RomCom ‘I Hate New Years’, She The Creator and the upcoming documentary ‘Open Secret’. In addition to scoring film and television, Emer creates experiential live concerts such as ‘Renovation on The Culver Steps’ and Intrinsic Strings on the Baldwin Hills overlook which was sponsored by BMI, VER-PRG, The AWFC, JKMS, Spitfire Audio, Culver City and Sony Pictures.

Film music Highlights

Highlights from She The Creator score, thanks to the New Music USA/ SESAC Reel Change grant award.

projects

SHORT FILMS

Official Selection at the Galway Film Fleadh, Cork Film Festival, Dublin Gaze Festival, London Shorts Series. Music by Emer Kinsella

There was once an invisible optician, living in a strange and lonely world. Her story starts with a broken lens and the woman who taught her to see things differently.

Lambing- official selection at Galway Film Fleadh

Perchance-Experimental Dance Thriller

horror/thiller shorts

Hysteria-Thriller

PERFORMANCE INSTALLATIONS/DANCE

'The Ladder is Always There' Visual Arts Exhibition by Amanda Coogan. Launch of the Contemporary Irish Arts Center in LA. Original music by Emer Kinsella

INSTRUMENTAL music videos

Trailer highlighting films directed by women at Outfest LA 2017. Music by Emer Kinsella