“Brilliantly indescribable and incredibly atmospheric. [I’m] hearing echoes of Krzysztof Penderecki, who I adore, and faint echoes of Jerry Goldsmith.”
DIE HEXEN is an Irish Academy Award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and sound artist, known for crafting dark, bold, and unforgettable scores that blur the line between music and sound design.
Hailing from the mythic north coast of Ireland, their breakthrough score for Fréwaka (2024) won “Best Original Music” at both the Irish Academy Awards and SITGES Film Festival. Variety praised its “imaginative, offbeat” quality, deeming HEXEN “integral” to a new wave of Irish horror “steeped in women’s history.” The score was further acclaimed by The New York Times, describing it as sounding “like Satan’s playlist,” and filmmaker Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher), who lauded its “wicked tone.”
With film as the amphitheatre for their signature sound, DIE HEXEN drives "under the skin" of the audience to create a truly visceral experience. This approach—spanning awe-inspiring themes and eerie motifs—has led film critic Mark Kermode to describe their output as "brilliantly indescribable," drawing comparisons to visionary masters like Mica Levi, Jerry Goldsmith, and Krzysztof Penderecki.
“[Aislinn] Clarke and her composer Die Hexen — whose score sounds like Satan’s playlist — set a blackhearted mood.”
The first non-male composer to win both the Irish Academy Award and SITGES for a feature film score, HEXEN’s momentum continued into 2025 with a nomination for NI Creator of the Year (PRS for Music). They have since been selected to represent Ireland at the 2026 Camille Awards (European Film Composer Awards) for their groundbreaking work on Fréwaka.
Beyond their career as a composer, HEXEN is also the director of the short films AM I DEAD and the IFTA-nominated EL HOR. The latter earned Best Experimental Film at ECU Paris and a Michael Dwyer Discovery Award at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival, where the jury praised it as “a phenomenal calling-card for a blazing new talent, one we keenly anticipate seeing more from in the future.”
