DAVID CIERI | Catalogue

Music for Film

Music for Film [a select list]

FORTHCOMING - 2025

On The Line - Francesco Saviano and Marika Hacking - UNARMED MEDIA (documentary)
The Revolutionary War - Florentine Films (documentary)
Henry David Thoreau - Ewers Brothers Productions (documentary)
Behind The Lines - John Benitz and Cypher Films (documentary)

SELECTION OF PAST FILM SCORES -

2022 Chasing Childhood - Eden Wurmfeld (documentary)
2022 Son of Fukushima - Beth Murphy and Beth Balaban (documentary)
2022 Ben Franklin - Ken Burns (documentary)
2022 Hiding in Plain Sight - Ewers Brothers and Ken Burns (documentary)
2022 America and The Holocaust - Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
2021 Ali • Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David MacMahon (documentary)
2021 Ernest Hemingway • Ken Burns, Lynn Novick (documentary) - Soundtrack out on Johnny Gandelsman’s (THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE) In a Circle Records
2018 The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science • Ewers Brothers, Ken Burns - featuring Bill Frisell (documentary)
2018 Going to War • Michael Epstein, Sebastian Junger, Karl Marlantes (documentary)
2018 Jesse’s Girl • M. Keeghan Uhl (narrative short)
2018 Outside the Bubble: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi • HBO - Alexandra Pelosi
2017 The Gene (based on the book by Siddhartha Mukerjee) - Arc Media
2017 Second Genesis: The Quest For Life Beyond Earth • Tony Gerber (documentary)
2017 This is Reading • Lynn Nottage, Kate Whoriskey, Tony Gerber (site-specific documentary)
2017 Walden • Ewers Brothers, Ken Burns (documentary short - narrated by Robert Redford)
2017 The Vietnam War • Ken Burns, Lynn Novick (documentary) - with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and The Silk Road with Yo-Yo Ma
2017 Take My Nose... Please! • Joan Kron (documentary)
2017 Oklahoma City • Barak Goodman (documentary)
2016 Gerald R. Ford: A Test of Character • Chris Durrance, Barak Goodman
2015 Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies • Barak Goodman, Ken Burns; based on the book by Siddhartha Mukherjee (documentary) 
2015 War & Peace: When the War Ends (TED Talks) • Tony Gerber
2014 The Roosevelts: An Intimate History • Ken Burns (documentary)
2014 The Address • Ken Burns (documentary)
2013 Not Working • DW Gibson
2012 Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story • Raymond De Felitta (documentary)
2012 The American Academy of Arts and Sciences: The Heart of the Matter • Ewers Brothers with George Lucas (documentary short)
2011 Prohibition • Ken Burns, Lynn Novick (documentary) 
2010 Baseball: The Tenth Inning • Ken Burns (documentary) 
2009 The National Parks: America’s Best Idea • Ken Burns (documentary)


Albums

Albums

2024 - THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC LIVE FROM THE WINTER GARDEN - PRESENTED BY JOHN SCHAFFER AND NEW SOUNDS WNYC - Ropeadope Records
2023 - DREAM OF WIRES - WITH MIKE BROWN
2023 - OMNIOTIK - (book 2) - Ropeadope Records
2022 - HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (SOUNDTRACK FOR THE DOCUMENTARY FILM) - ROPEADOPE RECORDS
2022 - OMNIOTIK (book 1) - ROPEADOE RECORDS
2021 - NMASH - IN COLLABORATION WITH THE GREAT JAY FREDERICK - ROPEADOPE RECORDS
2021 - HEMINGWAY_ORIGINAL SCORE FOR THE DOCUMENTARY (IN A CIRCLE RECORDS)
2020 An Homage to Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (Music Inspired by the Film) (Ropeadope Records)
2019 The Mayo Clinic: Unity of Forces (Ropeadope Records)
2018 Dark Furniture with Yusef Komunyakaa, David Cieri & Mike Brown (Ropeadope Records)
2017 Notes From The Underscore: Music for Ken Burns’ Florentine Films (Ropeadope Records)
2017 White Dust with Yusef Komunyakaa, David Cieri & Mike Brown (Ropeadope Records)
2013 The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (PBS)
2013 Formal Proof That The Universe Is Neither Cruel Nor Kind & That This Is The Greatest Conceivable Horror (small e records)
2012 Hard Times: Music From The Film, Not Working (small e records)
2009 Ether Variations (small e records)
2008 Use Your Inside Voice (small e records)
2007 Ten Truths About East & West (small e records)
2006 The Goat & The Violin (small e records)


Collaborations

Collaborations

2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 The Paris Review Podcast
2018 Dark Furniture with Yusef Komunyakaa, David Cieri & Mike Brown (Ropeadope Records)
2018 Iceland: Addendum with Francesco Saviano & Marika Hacking (Unarmed Media)
2017 White Dust with Yusef Komunyakaa, David Cieri & Mike Brown (Ropeadope Records)
2017 Graves of Light: A Tone Poem for Carillon Bells, performed by Paige Breen (small e records)