Simon Walker

Simon Walker (born in Sydney, NSW 1961 – June 2010) was an Australian composer of numerous film and television soundtracks including For the Term of His Natural Life. The first available soundtrack of his music was of his score for The Wild Duck on Southern Cross Records, and other releases include The Last of the Mohicans and his AFI Award-nominated score for Annie's Coming Out on the 1M1 Records label. Early life Having met recording producer Philip Powers in 1980, they collaborated in 1988 to conceive 1M1 Records, an Australian record label dedicated to Australian Music CD releases with a focus on Australian film soundtrack recordings. The first project was of Walker's own score to the Australian TV miniseries, For the Term of His Natural Life. Career Classical Compositions Two of Walker's contemporary classical compositions, the Bartokesque Binary and Deep Space were released on the compact disc Music for Pianos, Percussion and Synthesizers. This was a concept album designed by Walker and Powers to explore the territory of synthesizers to the extent they could be utilised since their inception up to 1989. The four other Australian film composers who wrote works for this album were Guy Gross, Philip Powers, Mark Isaacs and Chris Neal.