DIE HEXEN approaches scoring as a form of excavation, digging into a film’s psychological soil to exhume the trauma, memory, and lore buried within its strata.

By eschewing the traditional divide between music and sound design, they weave a singular fabric that collapses the boundary between the interior mind and the world it inhabits, transforming the score into a living extension of the narrative.

Mentored by Grammy-winning engineer Geoff Foster (Air Studios), HEXEN combines raw sounds with ancient and modern orchestration to create a unique sonic palette. To achieve this, HEXEN hand-builds instruments from scratch, blending these custom inventions with a sophisticated suite of electronic textures. Their toolkit is as rare as it is evocative, featuring Bronze Age horns, quartz crystal percussion, and the world’s only black Apprehension Engine ("The Nightmare Machine").

DIE HEXEN’s latest feature score for Aislinn Clarke’s Fréwaka attests to their boundary pushing reputation as a composer and sound artist, with its use of primitive ancient horns, flutes, mangled percussion, gnawing strings, ethereal vocals, drones, groaning synth and pump organ along with innovative sound design to create a sinister, unrelenting and claustrophobic score.

World Premiering the iconic Locarno Film Festival, Fréwaka won HEXEN their first Irish Academy Award in 2025—their forth nomination since 2020. This followed their 2024 win for Best Original Score at SITGES, making HEXEN the first non-male to win both awards for scoring a feature film.

In 2025, HEXEN received the Royal Television Award (NI) for scoring the BBC/Virgin Media series Video Nasty, and was nominated for PRS for Music’s NI Creator of the Year prize. They are currently representing Ireland at the 2026 Camille Awards (European Film Composer Awards) for Fréwaka.

Winning commissions for their work from The British Film Institute, Screen Ireland, NI Screen, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, UK Games Fund, Scottish Documentary Institute and The Wellcome Trust. DIE is a member of Screen Composers Guild of Ireland, WFTV, AWFC, Primetime Network and a member of The Ivors Academy.

Their work has performed at, among others: the Toronto International Film Festival (Midnight Madness), Locarno Film Festival, SITGES Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and Sheffield DocFest — all of which hold Oscar, BAFTA, or BIFA affiliations. Their work has also featured at Tribeca Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, and Edinburgh Film Festival, each Oscar-qualifying for short films, alongside Dublin International Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, Cork International Film Festival, Foyle Film Festival, and Tampere Film Festival, which are all both BAFTA and Oscar-qualifying.

Additional screenings include the New York Museum of Modern Art, Aesthetica Film Festival (BAFTA-qualifying), Norwich Film Festival (BAFTA-qualifying), Gerardmer Fantastic Film Festival (France's premier genre festival, alongside SITGES), and further appearances at Edinburgh, Dublin, Cork, Galway, Foyle, and Aesthetica.

Other commissioned scores include the Galway Film Fleadh (2021) winning / Academy Award qualifying film SAUL & I by Dir. Jon Beer (Out of Orbit / NI Screen). IFTA (2020) Winner, Best film & Discovery Award DIFF (2020) winning documentary WELCOME TO A BRIGHT WHITE LIMBO by Dir. Cara Holmes (Invisible Thread / Screen Ireland). The self-made IFTA (2020) nominated, DIFF Discovery Award, ÉCU winning EL HOR (2018).  Grand Prix Prize winning CIFF (2018) and Academy Award (2020) long-listed film STIGMA by Dir. Helen Warner and Venice Shorts (2020), Assurdo Film Festival (2020) & Short Sweet Film Festival (2021) winning horror EYE EXAM by Dir. Aislinn Clarke (Shudder, Disney, Hulu). 

DIE HEXEN also composed, performed, arranged and produced the soundtrack to Raindance Discovery Award nominated, Galway Film Fleadh & Irish Film London winning debut feature by Dir. Shelly Love ‘A BUMP ALONG THE WAY’ (2019), which premiered at TIFF (2019) opening the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (2020).

Other recent collaborations include Junk Ensemble’s - THE VEILED ONES, a dance theatre production by Megan & Jessica Kennedy that explores witches, transformations and the powerful relationship between grandparent & grandchild (World Premiere - Dublin Fringe Festival Sept 2021). ONAR, a Sci-fi fantasy game and ongoing commission by UK Games Fund/NI Screen in collaboration with Rewind Play Games. DIE HEXEN has also won nominations for BEST COMPOSER & SOUND for 3 consecutive years at BAFTA’s UNDERWIRE FESTIVAL for short film POLLEN Dir. Helen Warner (2016) self made AM I DEAD (2017) & EL HOR (2018), and has also won a Royal Televisions Society Innovation Award (2016) for BAFTA winning OUT OF ORBIT'S #WEAREYOU campaign.