Scott Twynholm is a Scottish composer and musician.
With a focus on melody and sonic texture his work often spans the worlds of contemporary classical and experimental electronic composition.
Scott started his professional music career in bands. He was an integral member of Looper with Stuart David of Belle and Sebastian and released solo records under the name Metrovavan, whose first release picked up single of the month in Record Collector Magazine.
Recent solo work includes Tekstura, a series of textured piano-based compositions which was released in 2021 through London-based Blurred Recordings and Orbits, an electronic instrumental suite in seven movements which pushes his textural experiments further by incorporating slowly shifting tape loops with a palette of piano and electronics, will be released by contemporary classical label Bigo & Twigetti in December 2023.
His band songs have appeared in numerous films including Palme d’Or nominated The Edukators and Cameron Crow’s Vanilla Sky. Film scores include Alasdair Gray, A Life In Progress, acclaimed multi-media artist Rachel Maclean’s feature debut Make Me Up, and Martyn Robertson’s award-winning 2022 documentary Ride the Wave, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.
Recent film work includes Bill Douglas, My Best Friend a feature documentary which premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival and BBC Network flagship TV series Murder Trial for Firecrest Films.
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FILM• Murder Trial (2023) Original Score for BBC Network TV series produced by Firecrest Films and directed by Matt Pinder • Bill Douglas, My Best Friend (2023) Original Score for feature documentary produced by Hopscotch Films and directed by Jack Archer • Red Ash (2023) Original Score for drama short directed by Dave Arthur • Orbits (2023) Original Dance Score for film installation at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh • Dog Days (2022) Original Score for BBC Scotland drama mini series. Written and directed by James Price • Ride the Wave (2021) Feature Documentary for Urbancroft Films • Myrtle (2021) Drama short directed by Patricia McCormack • Getting Close (2020) Drama short for BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine • Orin and Anto (2020) Drama short directed by Michael Achtman • Make Me Up (2018)
Feature film directed by Rachel Maclean for BBC Arts and The National Gallery
• The Hide (2017)
Drama short directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
• Groucho (2016)
Drama short directed by Jonathan Carr
• A Love Divided (2014)
Drama short directed by Ian Bustard
• Marty Goes To Hollywood (2014)
1hr documentary for BBC Scotland
• IBM (2014)
TV Commercial
• Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress (2014)
Feature documentary directed by Kevin Cameron for Hopscotch Films and BBC Scotland
• My Brother The Ark Raider (2013)
1hr documentary directed by Jonathan Carr for BBC Alba
• Get Luder (2010)
Documentary short directed by Jonathan Carr for Scottish Documentary Institute
• Parliamo Glasgow (2009)
Drama short directed by Hope Dixon Leach for Channel 4
STAGE
• Purposeless Movements (2019) Edinburgh International Festival • Tetra-Decathlon (2018)
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
• In The Ink Dark (2017)
LeithLate
• Our Fathers (2017)
Traverse Theatre
• The Majority (2017)
The National Theatre
• Hedda Gabler (2017)
Northern Stage
• Hope Is The Thing With Feathers (2017)
Newton’s Ladder / BalletLORENT
• Purposeless Movements (2016)
Birds of Paradise, Tramway
• Denton and Me (2015)
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
• Love Struck (2015)
BalletLORENT
• The Gamblers (2014)
Dundee Rep
• Catch 22 (2014)
Norhtern Stage
• If These Spasms Could Speak (2013)
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
• Far Away (2013)
Citizens Theatre
• Good With People (2013)
Paines Plough
• Girl X (2011)
National Theatre od Scotland