Jed Palmer is an Australian born award - winning composer, musician and producer.
Utilising electronics, guitar and classical orchestration he composes intricate, textured, minimalist music with influences ranging from experimental music, noise, classical minimalism and art rock.
Jed started writing music, playing in bands, and touring at a young age. He soon realised his great passion was capturing sound and collecting sounds together as collage. He studied audio engineering and began his working life as a recording engineer and producer, recording sound to analog tape. As well as being an accomplished composer he has worked across all departments of post-production sound for feature films, documentaries, and television. Jed brings together his vast musical experience, sound post-production craft and audio knowledge to create vivid, textured, fierce hybrid scores for film and television.
Jed has composed music for feature films The Royal Hotel (Dir Kitty Green, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2023), upcoming sci-fi feature Subservience (Dir. S.K Dale), Animals (Dir. Sophie Hyde, Sundance 2019) OtherLife (MIFF 2017, SFF 2017, San Diego 2017)and The Infinite Man (SXSW 2014). In 2018, Jed was nominated for an AACTA award for his score for Upgrade, Leigh Whannell’s cult sci-fi action film. Jed has composed scores for feature documentaries I Used To Be Normal - A Boyband Fangirl Story (Dir. Jessica Leski, Hot Docs 2018, SFF 2018) and Ukraine Is Not A Brothel (Venice Film Festival 2014, Winner AACTA Best Documentary). In 2019, Jed was awarded the best score award at the Flickerfest Awards for short film Sleepwalking (Dir Melissa Anastasi).
Jed has also created sound designs for feature films including Wasted On The Young (Dir Ben C Lucas, Toronto International Film Festival 2010), Bring Back The Dead (Dir Thean-jeen Lee, Singapore 2015). He was nominated for best sound in a documentary film at the 2017 AACTA Awards for Ukraine Is Not a Brothel, Kitty Green’s film following the feminist activist movement FEMEN.
Jed has written music for web series Over and Out (Van Vuuren Bros, Canneseries, Best Web Series Seoul Webfest, 2019) TV Reality Series Restoration Australia (ABC TV), TV documentary series Vietnam - War That Made Australia (SBS TV), A Beginners Guide To Grief (Dir. Anna Lindner, SBS, AACTA Award for Best Digital Channel or Series, 2022) and Black Snow (STAN in collaboration with Ziggy Ramo.
In addition to his film work, Jed has composed scores for Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre and Sisters Grimm, Restless Dance Theatre, Sandpit and Google Creative. Jed has collaborated with visual artists Amos Gebhardt, Jason Waterhouse and Georgie Mattingley and scored permanent exhibitions for Melbourne Museum.
