Mushroom Music Publishing

John Encarnacao is a Sydney-based composer, songwriter, performer and educator. His musical interests range from the folk rock of his group Warmer to his free improvising trio Espadrille, and contemporary art music. Over the past decade he has worked as a composer for short films and theatre; his work for Gary Cunliffe's Tropfest finalist One Down was nominated for the best score award.

John's music for film and theatre can engage with a variety of options. He is a consummate songwriter and instrumentalist and so can offer melodic and visceral material from a spectrum of styles including pop, rock, folk, country, soul, funk and reggae. There has also always been an experimental strand to his work, and so ambient instrumentals and electronic sound design are also part of his kit. John holds a degree in composition, and so orchestral writing is another option - he has scored arrangements for artists such as The Whitlams, Sunk Loto and Bernie Hayes.

John has taught music analysis, music performance and composition at the University of Western Sydney since 2004. He is currently completing his first book for UK publisher Ashgate on the ideological similarities between folk and punk musics in the context of the history of popular music.

List of selected works:

Recordings and scores
2011 Warmer - Spider and Lamb (Half A Cow)
2010 Espadrille – First Wave (Espadrille)
2009 Haiku 1 for violin and harpsichord. Recorded for Creative Explosion (Wirripang)
2008 (with Jon Drummond) 'Six Degrees Of Tension', on Unfenced (Australian Computer Music Association)
2005 Warmer - The Cat’s Miaow (Half A Cow)
2003 Bernie Hayes Quartet - Domestic Departures (Half A Cow)
2002 Warmer - A Prayer For Soft Honey (W.Minc Productions)
1999 – Irrational (Psychopyjama)
1999 Love and Death – Can-Opened Mind (Camera Obscura)
1996 St Crustacean – Fantastique (Psychopyjama)

Music For Film/Video/New Media/Theatre:
2010 'Dissolution and Synthesis' (live collaboration between Espadrille and Ryszard Dabek for This Is Not Art festival).
2009 'Fleeting Spheres' (live collaboration between Espadrille and Ryszard Dabek for Creative Explosion festival).
2008 Reverse, Newtown Theatre.
2006 The Jogger (35 mins, dir. Gary Cunliffe),
2006 Playlist (10 mins, dir. Ryszard Dabek).
2004 – 2006 Who Falls Was (12 mins, dir. Ryszard Dabek). Music in collaboration with Brendan Smyly.
2005 Gifted (3 mins, dir. Zoe Carides).
2004 One Down (7 mins, dir. Gary Cunliffe). Tropfest finalist. Nominated for best score.
2003 Augury (8 minutes, dir. Gary Cunliffe).

Links
Gary Cunliffe's One Down - http://www.plumpfilms.com.au/work-film-short-films-music-clips.htm Ryszard Dabek's Playlist - http://ryszard.net/playlist/#