Lee Raymond Brooks (born February 26, 1983, in Acton, Massachusetts, U.S.) is a composer and sound designer for film.

Biography

Lee Brooks is a composer for stage, film and television. He has scored original music and created sound design for a variety of films, working with talent such as Isabella Rossellini, Kronos Quartet,^[2] Ethel and the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. His work was recognized by the Student Academy Awards (This is not a Picture),^[3] and by the Mid-Atlantic Film Festival for Best Dramatic Score (Empty).^[4]

Since 2009, he has composed music for the Oslo Freedom Forum, a conference about human rights with an "ongoing campaign to defend and promote human freedom around the world."^[5] In 2009, he scored the theme to open the conference and introduce speakers. For 2010, in addition to a new version of the theme, he was commissioned to write his second and third string quartets, recorded by Ethel and presented during the conference.^[6]

He has worked as a Music Producer at Grey Advertising in New York since 2007.^[7]

Credits

Filmography

The following list consists of select films for which Brooks provided the sound design, score and/or songs. Those films for which he provided sound design are in bold.^[8]

2000s

• Outside the Box (2002)
• The Rub (2002)
• Janey's Curse (2003)
• One Moment, One Day (2003)
• Sidestreet (2003) - Theme Song "Down She Goes"
• Something and Denodra (2003) - Arrangement of song "Man Out There"
• My Big, Fat Martian Wedding (2004)
• NYU Tonight News Theme (2004)
• This is not a Picture (2004)
• AfterWords (2005)
• The Bet (2005)
• Brake (2005)
• Bummed (2005)
• A Burlap Christmas (2006)
• Empty (2005)
• Oswald Cornelius' Last One-Night Stand (2005)
• The Time Machine (2006)
• The Wrath of Norm Polanski (2006)
• Always the Nice Ones (2007)
• Film School (2007)
• The Morning After (2007)
• 2081 (2009)
• Dead Fish (2008)
• Flat Love (2008)
• Holy Sapien (2008)

Music videos

2000s

• "Check, Please" by Lee Brooks (2003) – actor

Stage

2000s

• A Concert of Original Works (2005)
• A Chance to Breathe (2004) Performed by NASHA (Indian Fusion Dance Troupe)
• SEX: a.k.a. Wieners & Boobs (2004) NYC Stage Production of play by Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Showalter, and David Wain
• Lee Brooks: Presenting His Works for Stage and Screen (2005)