Nigel Stanford
New Zealand composer
Nigel Stanford is a New Zealand composer, best known for his soundtrack for the movie TimeScapes directed by Tom Lowe, as well as his music videos Cymatics and Automatica.
In January 2019, a Huawei commercial was accused of plagiarizing Stanford's Cymatics video; Huawei eventually removed the video.
Discography
Albums
Deep Space (1999) (as John Stanford)
Timescapes (2012)
Solar Echoes (2014)
Automatica (2017)
Singles
"Cymatics" (2014)
"Automatica" (2017)
"One Hundred Hunters" (2018)
"Forever" (2018)
Remixes
Last Night on Earth (Celldweller) (Nigel Stanford Remix) (2018)
Filmography
Nigel contributed in the film TimeScapes directed by Tom Lowe. This is an English language documentary about arts, nature with no narration published in 2012 .
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