__NOTOC__ John Kusiak (born July 20, 1948) is an American composer best known for his work with documentary filmmaker

Errol Morris Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of its subjects. In 2003, his documentary film '' The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara ...

. He won the 2012

Cinema Eye Honors The Cinema Eye Honors are awards recognizing excellence in nonfiction or documentary filmmaking and include awards for the disciplines of directing, producing, cinematography and editing. The awards are presented each January in New York and have b ...

Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score for Morris' '' Tabloid''. Kusiak has composed music for live performance, commercials, and museum installations as well as film and television. He began scoring films for Boston-based

Northern Light Productions Northern Light Productions is a documentary film and museum media production company based in Boston, MA. Founded in 1982 by independent filmmaker Bestor Cram, the company is one of New England's premiere production organizations, creating a vari ...

in the 1980s while he was a touring rock and roll guitarist, and founded the studio Kusiak Music in 1992. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.Laskowski, Nicole (Mar 04, 2010). ''From Performing to Producing: The Music of John Kusiak'' The Arlington Advocate
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Work Process

Although his first instrument is guitar, he primarily composes film scores on piano. In an essay about scoring

The Singing Revolution ''The Singing Revolution'' is a 2006 documentary film created by Americans James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty about the nonviolent Singing Revolution in Estonia in which hundreds of thousands of Estonians gathered publicly between 1986 and 199 ...

(a documentary about Estonian resistance during World War II), Kusiak writes that his "empathetic response to the events depicted" provided the foundation for his work process.Kusiak, John. Scoring ''The Singing Revolution.'' Retrieved 21 November 2013.
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Selected credits

* ''

The American Experience ''American Experience'' is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American his ...

(TV Series)'' (16 episodes, 2003–2019) * ''

Team Foxcatcher ''Team Foxcatcher'' is a 2016 documentary film directed by Jon Greenhalgh telling the story of billionaire John du Pont's involvement in the shaping of the US Olympic Wrestling Team by building expensive training facilities on his home property, ...

'' (2016) * '' The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst'' (miniseries) (2 episodes, 2015) * ''After the Wall: A World United'' (2011) * ''

Independent Lens ''Independent Lens'' is a weekly television series airing on PBS featuring documentary films made by independent filmmakers. Past seasons of ''Independent Lens'' were hosted by Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Susan Sarandon, Edie Falco, Terrence Ho ...

'' (2 episodes) (2009–2011) * '' Tabloid'' (2010) * ''The Wall: A World Divided'' (2010) * ''Yellowstone: Land to Life'' (2009) * ''

Secrecy Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. Secrecy is often controvers ...

'' (2008) * '' Have You Seen Andy?'' (2007) * ''Aquarium'' (2007) * ''

'' (2006) * '' The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara'' (2003) ''Additional music (primary composer

Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...

)'' * '' First Person'' (12 episodes, 2000) * '' WW III: World War III'' (1998)

Discography

* ''Monhegan Suite and Other Musical Journeys'' (2013) * ''Tabloid'' (2011) * ''Errol Morris' First Person (Music from Season Two)'' (2005) * ''Errol Morris' First Person (Music from Season One)'' (2005) * ''Apokalypsis'' (2003)

References

External links

Official site
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