Dawn Vincent
Dawn Vincent[1][2][3] is an Indian music composer, mixing engineer and sound designer. He is a graduate from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He is also an accomplished pianist certified from Trinity College London, London. He works predominantly in Malayalam cinema. He is known for films such as Kammatipaadam, Adventures of Omanakuttan, Tharangam , Eeda, Kismath, and Iblis (film).
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Birth name | Dawn Vincent |
Born | Kochi, Kerala | 20 September 1990
Genres | Film Score, World Music, Electronic |
Occupation(s) | Music Composer, Music Arranger, Mixing Engineer, Sound Designer, Sound Editor |
Instruments | Piano, Keyboard, Synthesizer, Seaboard, Bass Guitar |
Early life and education
Dawn was born in Kochi, Kerala to Vincent John and Sheena Nancy. He has a younger brother, Navin Vincent, who is a structural engineer and also an 8th grade solo guitarist certified from Trinity College London, London. Dawn studied in Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Girinagar, Kochi. He was very active as a keyboard player and bass guitarist during his school life. He was part of a rock band and their genre of music included singles from various bands like Metallica, Dream Theatre, Slipknot, Green Day, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. They also performed their own compositions and bagged prizes in many interschool competitions from 2004-2008. He graduated from Karunya University, Coimbatore in 2012 with an undergraduate Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Media Technology. He then joined Film and Television Institute of India, Pune to pursue his Post Graduation Course in Sound Recording and Sound Design. As a student he was selected to do an on-location sound recording for a project in Internationale filmschule köln, Germany.
Musical career
Dawn initially composed music for short films. He started working in the industry by doing background score for the Film Mundrothuruth in 2016 directed by Manu along with his batchmates from the Film and Television Institute Of India, Ashok and Subramanian. He did the music arrangement and mixing for the songs from the Film Kammatipaadam, starring Dulquer Salmaan and Vinayakan and directed by Rajeev Ravi. He made his breakthrough in the film Adventures of Omanakuttan as a composer and sound designer. He was later associated with Collective Phase One, which is a group of artists & filmmakers such as Rajeev Ravi, B. Ajithkumar, Madhu Neelakandan, Pramod Thomas, Kamal K M & Resul Pookutty.
Filmography
Year | Title | Language | Credit | Director |
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2016 | Mundrothuruth: Munroe Island | Malayalam | Background Score | Manu |
2016 | Kammatipaadam | Malayalam | Music Arranger/ Music Mixing Engineer/ Background Score | Rajeev Ravi |
2016 | Kismath | Malayalam | Music Mixing Engineer/ Pre Mixing Engineer | Shanavas K. Bavakutty |
2016 | Kaadu Pookkunna Neram | Malayalam | Music Editor/ Pre Mixing Engineer | Dr. Biju |
2017 | Samarpanam | Malayalam | Background Score | K. Gopinathan |
2017 | Adventures of Omanakuttan | Malayalam | Music Composer/ Sound Designer | Rohith V. S. |
2017 | Tharangam | Malayalam | Sound Designer | Dominic Arun |
2017 | Sound of Silence | Malayalam | Assistant Mixing Engineer | Dr. Biju |
2018 | Eeda | Malayalam | Background Score | B. Ajithkumar |
2018 | Iblis (film) | Malayalam | Music Composer/ Director of audiography | Rohith V. S. |
2019 | Run Kalyani | Malayalam | Sound Designer | Geetha J |
2019 | Thottappan | Malayalam | Sound editor (filmmaking) | Shanavas K. Bavakutty |
2019 | Virus (2019 film) | Malayalam | Sound editor (filmmaking) | Aashiq Abu |
2019 | Android Kunjappan Version 5.25 | Malayalam | Additional Background Score/ Sync sound Recording | Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval |
2020 | Paapam Cheyyathavar Kalleriyatte | Malayalam | Background Score | Shambhu Purushothaman |
2020 | Trance (2020 film) | Malayalam | Music Engineer (Trance Title Track) | Anwar Rasheed |
2020 | Chathur Mukham | Malayalam | Music Composer/ Background Score/ Sound Designer | Ranjeet Kamala Sankar Salil V. |
References
- "'Adventures of Omanakkuttan' second video song is here - Times of India".
- "Dawn Vincent". IMDb.
- "Audio Launch of 'Iblis' held". The New Indian Express.