Pressure Points4182/1Uneasy strings with pulsing synths, relentless industrial percussion rhythm & dark textures. Tension builds throughout2:09
Amit May Cohen
Amit May Cohen (BMI)
A composer and multi-instrumentalist celebrated for her colourful, eclectic film and TV scoring.
Latest Tracks
- The Truth As We Know4182/2Dark strings & textures with unsettling percussion & mysterious keyboard melody. Drama, suspense & intrigue2:23
- Your Own Mind4182/3Urgent pulsing synth with insistent industrial percussion rhythm & glistening violins set against lush emotional strings2:23
- Truth Unfolding4182/4Mysterious strings with dark pads & pulsating synth bass over a mechanical electronic drum groove2:15
- Distressed Signals4182/5Brooding low string chords & pads build with synth pulse, drum beats & swirling high strings to a tense mysterious ending2:19
- Prime Suspect4182/6Dark chugging strings, percussion & pulsating synth slowly build to a dramatic climax with fast strings & big melodies2:16
- A World Like This4182/7Shimmering strings with Ebow guitar, insistent synth pulse, reflective keys & electronic percussion. Light sense of dread 2:14
The story behind the sound
Amit May Cohen is a Los Angeles based composer and multi-instrumentalist best known for her colourful and eclectic approach to film and TV scoring. Amit’s diverse stylistic range is represented in her hybrid-orchestral comedy score for Disney Channel’s Zombies 2 and Zombies 3, her guitar-centric documentary co-score with Dara Taylor, 37 Words, her innovative score for the Netflix documentary short, The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone, and her work as an additional composer and/or orchestrator on projects including Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, The Sinner and the Australian Academy Award nominated documentary In My Blood It Runs. Originally from Israel, many of Amit’s scores have incorporated experimental elements such as bicycle chains, mouth percussion, detuned guitars, and bird sounds. Amit has a degree from Berklee College of Music and graduated from the prestigious Sundance Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Ranch. She won 2nd Place in the MTNA National Composition Competition with her contemporary piece ‘Black Dawn’ in 2016, and was awarded the ASCAP Emerging Film Composer Award In 2015.
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Amit’s colourful, eclectic approach to film and TV scoring incorporates experimental elements such as mouth percussion, detuned guitars and bird sounds.