DIE HEXEN DIE HEXEN is an Irish Academy Award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and sound artist, known for creating hypnotic, psychologically kinetic scores that blur the line between music and sound design. Their score for Fréwaka (2024) won “Best Original Music” at both the 2025 Irish Academy Awards and 2024 SITGES Film Festival, with The New York Times describing the music as sounding “like Satan’s playlist” and filmmaker Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher) lauding its “wicked tone.” With comparisons to the likes of Mica Levi and Krzysztof Penderecki, critics have called their wider body of work "brilliantly indescribable" (Mark Kermode) and "arresting" (Variety). Mentored by Grammy-winning engineer Geoff Foster, DIE weaves avant-garde orchestration and electronic textures throughout their work, with a sonic palette that spans Bronze Age horns, quartz crystal percussion, and the world’s only black Apprehension Engine (“The Nightmare Machine”). They are the first non-male to win the Irish Academy Award and SITGES for scoring a feature film. "An imaginative, offbeat score by avant-garde musician Die Hexen, heavy on chattering percussion, keeps us tense in our seats" -- Guy Lodge, Variety (reviewing Fréwaka) RECENT CREDITS Fréwaka (2024, dir. Aislinn Clarke) Video Nasty (2025, dir. Christopher Smith) Inside, The Valley Sings (2024, dir. Nathan Fagan) Double Blind (2023, dir. Ian Hunt-Duffy) You Are Not My Mother (2021, dir. Kate Dolan) AWARDS & NOMINATIONS Winner of The Irish Film & Television Academy Award | “Best Original Music" for Fréwaka Winner of the SITGES Film Festival Award (in the SOFC) | “Best Original Music" for Fréwaka Winner of Royal Television Society Award "Best Original Music" for Video Nasty. Nominated for The Irish Film & Television Academy Award | “Best Original Music" for Video Nasty. Nominated for The Irish Film & Television Academy Award | “Best Original Music" for Double Blind Nominated for The Irish Film & Television Academy Award | “Best Original Music" for You Are Not My Mother Four-times Oscar long-listed for Inside, The Valley Sings; Lamb; Saul & I; and Stigma.
