Emily Chiu

composer for film, theater, and audio storytelling

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FILM & TELEVISION

Rage Nap
Hybrid score for experimental animation

Glitchy stabs, jagged choral bursts, electric guitars, and a tribal pulse underneath. The nap you take when you’re too angry to stay awake. Rest as an act of war.

Giant Pacific Octopus, Emperor Of The Seas (from Apollo)
Hybrid orchestral score

The ocean as cathedral. Choral pads and glittering synths swell into a massive, full-orchestra wave.

From Apollo, Book & Lyrics by Ellen Johnston, Music by Emily Chiu

Cephalopod Supervision (from Apollo)
Atmospheric underscore
Furina Alive End Credits (from Furina: ALIVE!)
playful orchestral comedy

That's all, folks -- a loony-tunes parade of themes, each taking its bow, one last time.

From Furina: ALIVE! Script & Songs by Marcus Perkins and Kim Jinhyoung, Film Score by Emily Chiu

Something is watching. Harp with crystallizer effects, a synth bass that slowly detunes and smears into the deep.

From Apollo, Book & Lyrics by Ellen Johnston, Music by Emily Chiu

Inside The Yam Van (from Apollo)
Intimate underscore

The fragile, specific warmth of an unlikely friendship made by sharing warm barley tea in a food truck on a cold night. Small string ensemble, piano, acoustic guitar.

From Apollo, Book & Lyrics by Ellen Johnston, Music by Emily Chiu

 

musical theater

Prologue (from Apollo)
Book & Lyrics by Ellen Johnston, Music by Emily Chiu

Massive choral opening to Apollo— the ocean as myth, as wonder, as something almost too large to hold... Almost.

Blast Off (from American Girl Live)
Book & Lyrics by Sandy Rustin, Music by Emily Chiu

Bright and bubbly commercial musical theater pop for TYA. Girls away at summer camp pretend to be an astronaut flight crew -- and fully commit.

Oamisua
Music & Lyrics by Emily Chiu, ft. Shannon Tyo

Oyster vermicelli, sweaty plastic stools, and a street cart grandma who keeps showing up like a miracle. Until she doesn't. Until your mother doesn't either.

Cast Out To Sea (from Empty Shells)
Book & Lyrics by Lesley Braver, Music by Emily Chiu, ft. Cori Jaskier, Trevor Bunce

A B-52s-inspired romp about two newlywed hermit crabs who escape the mall to honeymoon at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. They have a lot of sex.

Nobody Told Me (from Realboy404)
Music & Lyrics by Emily Chiu, demo vocals by Emily Chiu

Pinocchio learns that having a human heart means carrying its damage. A layered ballad about imperfection held in superposition — broken and worth it, simultaneously.


Production & SONGWRITING

Radioactive Vending Machine Learns To Walk

Unhinged ASMR beat featuring a Fisher Price toy, glitch textures, and lots of mouth sounds. Something is being born and it has no idea what it is.

Depression Lottery (from Realboy404)
Music & Lyrics by Emily Chiu, demo vocals by Saros (Eclipsed Sounds)

Villainous slot machine beat. What's a few souls, broken at random, in service of a greater cause?

Wrong Thing (from Realboy404)
Music & Lyrics by Emily Chiu, demo vocals by Emily Chiu

A lush, glitching RnB love duet between two people that are incomplete and wrong in exactly the same way -- and find that's enough.

Anomaly (from Realboy404)
Music & Lyrics by Emily Chiu, demo vocals by Emily Chiu

Upbeat, layered pop built from foley and bright, jangly sounds. A fantasy about the alternate state where being yourself doesn't cost you anything.

Martyrdom of a Prodigal Child

Breakcore. Gritty, breakneck drums with dynamic sweeps and a meditative piano melody floating above. Driving 90 on the freeway on a rainy night with the window open.