Owen Pallett
Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist, who performs solo as Owen Pallett or, before 2010, under the name Final Fantasy. As Final Fantasy, he won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds. From the age of 3, Pallett studied classical violin, and composed his first piece at age 13. A notable early composition includes some of the music for the game Traffic Department 2192; he moved on to scoring films, to composing two operas while in university. Apart from the indie music scene, he has had commissions from the Barbican, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Ballet of Canada, Bang on a Can, Ecstatic Music Festival, the Vancouver CBC Orchestra, and Fine Young Classicals. On his Final Fantasy releases, Pallett has collaborated with Leon Taheny, who is credited as drummer and engineer. Following the release of Heartland, Pallett has toured with guitarist/percussionist Thomas Gill and more recently with his former collaborators in Les Mouches, Rob Gordon and Matt Smith. Pallett has been noted for his live performances, wherein he plays the violin into a loop pedal. Pallett uses Max/MSP and SooperLooper to do multi-phonic looping, which sends his violin signal to amplifiers across the stage. In January 2014, Pallett and William Butler were nominated for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their work on Her.
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SoundBirthday
September 7, 1979Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
19Place of birth
Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaCast credits
Crew credits
Her
Original Music Composer14 Actors Acting
MusicThe Wait
Original Music ComposerRecorder: The Marion Stokes Project
MusicThe Box
Conductor, Original Music ComposerSpaceship Earth
Original Music ComposerTake Flight
MusicThe Great Malaise
MusicianOn the Count of Three
Original Music ComposerHeritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery
MusicAlice, Darling
Original Music ComposerDream Scenario
Original Music ComposerLife
Original Music Composer