DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS DEGREE COURSE FINAL PROJECT – NICOLO BACIALLI Black Spot is a final year project by Nicolo Bacialli, created for his Digital Media Arts degree in 2019. I worked alongside Nick Hoad to create the sound design for this animation. In 2019, this project won Best Technical Project at BFI Film Festival. Sound…
SOUND DESIGN MODULE COURSEWORK (CMT YR 1) This animated short “Agent 327” by Blender Animation Studio was used as part of my sound design coursework. Starting from complete silence, I rewrote the music and recreated the sound design. The original can be found on YouTube. Music & SD: Sara Cardinale Animation: Blender Animation Studio
GRAND GESTURE DANCE COMPANY That Old Feeling explores attitudes to ageing. Four geri-anarchists shake off the cloak of elder invisibility. Performed in January 2020 in London as part of the Festival of New Choreography. Composers: Sara Cardinale, Alice Mills, Alexandria Eyre WATCH THE FULL PERFORMANCE VIDEO
LUCY BENNET DANCE COMPANY Reflection episodically shows the scarily subtle development of eating disorder habits in day-to-day life, the necessity of having a strong support system and troubling depictions of the crippling reality of this mental health disorder. Reflection was performed in October 2019 as part of Dance Festival Croydon (video of performance coming soon).…
Life Recaptured follows the life of Arnold, a 30-year-old financial advisor. Arnold always dreamed of being a photographer from a young age, but never pursued it, so ended up in a dead-end job he despises. Every single day feels exactly the same. As a result, Arnold is quite depressed and does not look after his…
I worked for DARE book author Barry McDonagh to create background music for his guided meditation audios as part of the DARE app. The tracks consisted of ambient-like sound textures, perfect as relaxing meditation music.
In 2017, I wrote the music for ReSet’s video which reached over 22M views on social media. The video proposes a scenario where the viewer’s life suddenly ended, and pushes them to think about changes they would make in their lives.
In 2017, I had the honour of writing the soundtrack for the game Mordheim: Warband Skirmish by Legendary Games. I wrote themes and tracks based on each character type to represent their roles. For instance the Sisters of Sigmar theme represents the powerful female warriors which seek to bring peace back into their world. This…
This piece was written as exploration of meta-music. My interest in compositional systems which employ mathematical notions has lead me to research how to compose using fractals. This is the musical result of composing with Koch Snowflake. saracardinalemusic · Interlude 2 Koch Snowflake
The piece Cigno Nero was written using Neo-Riemannian Theory, elements of Schillinger’s system of music composition and Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli technique. The first half of the piece uses chord progressions that have foundation in the Neo-Riemannian Theory (NRT). I chose a series of chords, of which most are connected through NRT moves, and wrote them…
