DAVID CIERI | Catalogue

Music for Film

Music for Film [a select list]

THREE NEW FILMS THAT I EITHER SCORED ENTIRELY (HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT) OR CONTRIBUTED TO THE SCORE - ARRIVING IN 2022

APRIL 4TH AND 5TH ON PBS

Benjamin Franklin Ken Burns and Florentine Films

Here is a link to a New York Times Feature about Franklin and Vaccinations which includes a short video with 2 pieces of music that i wrote for the film -

JULY 27TH AND 28TH ON PBS

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (film one) Ewers Brothers Productions_Ken Burns_Florentine Films

OCTOBER 2022 ON PBS

The Holocaust Ken Burns and Lynn Novick - Florentine Films

Forthcoming (2022) Chasing Childhood, Eden Wurmfeld (documentary)
Forthcoming (2022) Son Of Fukushima Beth Murphy and Beth Balaban (documentary)
Forthcoming Out of the Ring (2023) • Francesco Saviano and Marika Hacking - UNARMED MEDIA (documentary)


SELECTION OF PAST FILM SCORES -

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 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

2022 - 2023 - Forthcoming Records -

- A Four record set titled OMNIOTIK (listed as books 2 - 4 - BOOK 1 arrived April 2022) - will be released (one record every three months continuing this September on Ropeadope.

- in collaboration with the incredible bassist and all around musician and good friend Mike Brown - a duo record will arrive sometime before the year 22 is out.

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)