The collection of the music composed under my name.
Singles
2024
Unravelling
This composition communicates the unravelling of time and space through a unconventional combination of Piano, Synth, Cavaquinho, Drums and experimental production methods. Feel the piece become progressively darker and more chaotic as the tempo and pitch descend throughout. Award winning composer Grayson Gilmour described Unravelling as “A detailed and considered composition” and “an engaging listen”.
Piano: Lyam Rowe
Synth: Stephen Bainbridge
Cavaquinho: Matthew Siqueira
Drums: Millie Dalton
Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Tim Banks
Fountain of Youth
Fountain of Youth is a short sweet harp composition recorded with Michelle Velvin of the Wellington Symphony Orchestra, bolstered by tight drums, textural synths and smooth bass. Invoking feelings of nostalgia and wonder, it soundtracks the story of a travellers journey to the fabled Fountain of Youth.
Harp: Michelle Velvin
Drums: Cory Champion
Synths: Grayson Gilmour, Tim Banks
Bass: Tim Banks
Produced, mixed and mastered by Tim Banks
2023
You Can’t Have This
You Can’t Have This is an experimental sound art piece inspired by the philosophical concept of Hauntology. It was made with the express purpose of rejecting musical norms. “The end result is a sonically rich, temporally ambiguous composition that feels hauntingly familiar at times. Despite actively rejecting the influence of the conventional sounds and tropes. Ironically that very influence haunts my work, although one could say actively rejecting influence is a form of influence itself.”
Dream Induction
Dream Induction is electronic/psychedelic rock fusion track that invokes themes of anti-establishment and anti-consumerism, inspired by the privacy controversies of Meta and their announcement of Metaverse. In this piece I used sound design to illustrate the idea of a technologically advanced virtual reality system scanning your brain in order to make the simulation appear increasingly more realistic as the song transitions from fully electronic into classic psychedelic rock inspired by Pink Floyd.
EPs
2024
Tim Banks – MinMax
MinMax is a unique and experimental EP of 4 tracks that each explore the possibilities of a singular instrument. The accompanying visuals show the detailed production and performance process. Click here to visit the dedicated MinMax page for more info and to watch the music videos. Available on all major music streaming services except Spotify.
Guitar: Ethan Rainer & Tim Banks
Saxophone: Kage Nesbit
Drums: Joe Andrew
Vocals – Diplopoda & Tim Banks
Soundtracks
2025
Bus Stop Productions: The Pen is Mighty (PG-13)
The Pen is Mighty is a short film I worked on in collaboration with Bus Stop Productions for the 2025 48 Hour Film Challenge. I completed the sound design and composed the musical score in collaboration with Roman Barlow.
2024
The Space Between (Featuring Airu Matsuda)
The Space Between is a work I created in collaboration with the interpretive dancer Airu Matsuda from the Wellington dance organisation: Footnote. With directions from Airu I composed the music as he choreographed and performed the movements. Together we fleshed out his idea of exploring the tension leading up to transfers of energy, and frictionless movements within ones body. The contemplative, evolving, and ambient style of music that Airu favours was a new creative direction and I’m proud of the result.
Initialising
Initialising was my entry to the 2024 Adam Audio Soundtrack Competition. The task was producing a 30 second soundtrack prompted by this image. My interpretation of the image is a humanoid alien having landed on a cold part of earth, analysing and adapting to their new surroundings using their superior technology. The piece contains effected bowed guitar performed by Murphy Bruning.
2023
Dolby Digital Presents: Escape (Rescored)
This is my take on the soundtrack for the 2017 Dolby Digital animated short: Escape.
2022
Cosmic Piracy
Cosmic Piracy is a short midi composition I produced in my first year of my commercial music degree. I imagined it as the intro music for a streaming show about space pirates with jaunty rhythms, atmospheric synths, dramatic strings, and an electric lute for a powerful finish.
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