Music & Sound Design for Film, Animation, Brand, Fashion, & Installations (Favorites)
“From sound designing [artist] Nick Cave’s Barneys New York installation to sharing bills with Yaeji, J-Cush and The Sun Ra Arkestra, the Brooklyn-based producer is a multidisciplinary whose borders are nonexistent.” —Dummy Mag
Lexus x Barneys—Music & Sound Design for an Arctic Anime Racing Short
Visuals by Invisible Light Network | Audio by Amnon Freidlin (a.k.a. Honnda)
Lacoste 80th Anniversary Windows for New York Fashion Week: Sound Design, Music, & Audio Engineering for Site-Specific Kinetic Sculpture Installation
Visual Production by M Crown Productions, DNBKR, Chrysalys
Sound Design/Music/Engineering by Amnon Freidlin aka Honnda
Video Edit by John Gilbert
Sound Design/Music/Engineering for Lacoste 80th Anniversary Interactive Kinetic Sculpture
Microsoft VS Code Day: Music Score, Sonic Branding, & Sound Design for Opening Title Sequence
Plus assistive audio UX being developed with sighted & blind engineers/researchers Megan Rogge & JooYoung Seo
Barneys New York (2011-2019)
Lead Composer & Sound Designer for Artist & Brand Collaborations with:
Nick Cave (Artist), Louise Bourgeois, Christian Louboutin, Maison Margiela, Lexus, Prada, and More
Under the direction of Matthew Mazzucca & Dennis Freedman, Barneys Creative Director & VP
Led music, sound design, and voice over casting/recording/direction for 15 large-scale productions. This spanned animation, video, interactive AV, social media experience, and art installations.
Documentation (2011-2019) of Barneys New York creative media projects, which featured composition & sound design by Amnon Freidlin.
Academy of Natural Sciences
Public Art Installation—”Fugue” Remix & Sound Design for Shabaka Hutchings’s Music Score. How to Get to the River
This can only be experienced live.
August 3–October 30, 2022. Philadelphia, PA.
Through remixing and re-pitching, we created fugal and post-minimalist-inspired musical compositions. Played via multichannel interactive soundposts throughout Center City, Philadelphia.
How to Get to the River by Pete Angevine, Laia, Whit MacLaughlin, Rohan Hejmadi, Salvador Placensia. Produced by New Paradise Laboratories. Media design by Greenhouse Media. Illustration by Tiffanie Young. Text layout by Katie Hodge. Music by Shabaka Hutchings. Remix & Sound Design by Ammon Freidlin.
Music and Sound Design for Barneys x Haas Brothers Window Installations & Animations
Animated by We Are Prism. | Music/Sound Design by Amnon Freidlin aka Honnda
Selected score cues:
Music & Sound Design for Barneys 2016 Window Installations & Social Media
By Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park), Rob Pruitt, and Studio Job — original music for exclusive window installations "We Are Prism featuring Honnda," and sound design/composition for artist Nick Cave, and Ebony G. Patterson. December, 2016.
Oceans to Woodlands—
Interactive Biophilic Sound & Visual
All sound design, original music, UI, and visual design by Megabloom Audio
Sound, non-linear composition, UI, and interaction design inspired by city life and the refuge found in nature. The work explores the ability to toggle between sonic environments (Oceanic vs Woodlands) and sonic functions (sound design and music). Channeling immersive, wellness and meditative energy, it draws from eco and ambient-inspired genres.
Production Information
• 100% of the SFX were built via synthesis, recorded, or sourced and meticulously reimagined and crafted.
• Various aquatic sounds recorded on a SoundFish ASF-1 MKII hydrophone in Northeast United States, as well as other field recordings in Placencia, Belize, and Cozumel’s Mesoamerican Reef.
• Additional dolphin-like sounds made by sound designer’s vocalizations. These were layered with effected sea mammal and bird sounds.
• Suspended harmonies used to evoke the feeling of floating
• Processed vocals and sine wave glissandos evoke sea creature and siren-like calls, in addition to being used as synth pads.
• Libraries used: Everyday Foley Volume I, BBC Nature Sound Effects Library, Pacific Northwest. and Waves Wind Water, Travel Essentials Drum Collection
