Ant Neely is an English composer and musician, known for an eclectic style.

Career

Neely attended

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and holds a degree in

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. After graduating, he studied jazz guitar at the Musician's Institute in

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, California, where he met subthunk co-founder Alex U'Ren. Neely divides his time between writing music for film/television, releasing albums, both under the subthunk banner and as a solo artist, and more recently writing screenplays. His composing credits include music on shows such as Six Feet Under, ''

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'', '' Samantha Who'', ''

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'', as well as three seasons of orchestral compositions for the popular Dutch show Sprookjesboom. Neely has been called ''"a creative and progressively thinking artist",'' whose eclectic style incorporates everything from electronica to ''"John Barry-like orchestral atmospherics".'' His

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released album, ''Not Fit For Human Consumption,'' contains elements of

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, old educational film clips (courtesy of the

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) and is part of a Geotracking experiment.

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is a fan of Neely and subthunk's music. He is quoted as saying ''"The masses are asses who need subthunk glasses"''. Neely co-produced, wrote the screenplay and scored the feature film

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. The film was voted Best Film 2012 at the 37th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival and awarded the Gort Award. Previous Gort Award winners have included

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' ''

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''. Dimensions went on to win Best Film at the London Independent Film Festival and Best Film at the Long Island International Film Expo.

Life

As a child, Neely's family moved frequently. He spent time in various parts of

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and several years in

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. He attributes this nomadic upbringing to his diverse tastes in music. An early fascination with sound developed when his father gave him his old reel-to-reel tape machine, with which he made his first experiments in ambient noise.IMDB bio
/ref> Neely is married to director/

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/art director Sloane U’Ren.

References

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