Plan 9
Janet Roddick David Donaldson Stephen Roche
ABOUT
This year Plan 9 composed the original score for the Screentime NZ series A Remarkable Place To Die. A murder/mystery of four 90 minute episodes it was filmed in Queenstown and stars Rebecca Gibney and Chelsie Preston Crayford. They created the music for an eight part web series called Shine On Katherine Mansfield made by Anna Cottrell and streming on Newsroom.
In 2023 they created the music for Katherine McRae's feature documentary Pacific Mother. With stories from across the Pacific they collaborated with a range of musicians: Jeff Peterson (Hawai'i), Gerhen Oshima (Okinawa Japan), Michel Poroi (Tahiti), Maurice Newport, Jim Perkins, Mark Short and Kutia Tuteru (Cook Islands) and Ariana Tikao (Aotearoa NZ).
Also in 2023 they scored Dark City - The Cleaner a six part drama/dark comedy series based on the novel by Christchurch writer Paul Cleave. It premiered in March this year and was funded by NZ On Air, Lionsgate and Sky.
In 2022 Plan 9 created the score for documentary Geoff Dixon: Portraits Of Us which premiered at the NZIFF in August and they composed for series three of Our Big Blue Backyard.
It was late in 2018, in time for the 100 year anniversary of Armistice Day, Plan 9 created the original score for Peter Jackson's documentary They Shall Not Grow Old. In 2019 they were working on a soundtrack using binaural recording for an immersive theatre experience, which was put on hold due to Covid. Plus they did a short film Topping Out for Kerry Fox and some Hobbitty music with David Long for The Green Dragon - Hobbiton in Matamata.
In 2020 Plan 9 composed the score for the film The Tender Trap which premiered in March 2021, as well music for slow TV 12 hour show Go Further South, (Easter 2020) and then the feature film Poppy was released in May 2021.
Their theme for Radio NZ Morning Report played from 2014 to 2022.
A side project sees them creating sample libraries and virtual instruments for Kontakt under the brand MODWHEEL. You can find out more here.
Plan 9 is published by Concord Music Publishing ANZ.
Contact David Nash at David.Nash@concord.com
Upstairs at 30 Arthur Street back in the early 2000s. It was a rehearsal room for numerous Wellington bands and became the first studio space for Plan 9 in 1996.
The building was the first Boys' Institute in the city and had a disused swimming pool under the floor downstairs.
The Bewilderness June 2021
Photograph by Grant Maiden
A short film by David Donaldson about leaving 30 Arthur Street and the Karo Drive - Traffic Bypass development.