Sound & Music for Animation

I have worked with many independent animation filmmakers developing a unique sound and music world for their films. I like to personally handle all audio aspects of a film in close collaboration with each filmmaker: from the early sound concept, music composition, sound design and foley to the final mix and delivery for cinema and other media.

Awards & Screenings

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Selected Films

Intermission

Réka Bucsi

Backflip

Nikita Diakur

Postpartum

Henriette Rietz

Terra Incognita

Adrian Dexter

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The Big Apple

Igor Bastidas

Salvation Has No Name

Joseph Wallace

To Abstract

Ross McCampbell

Serial Parallels

Max Hattler

Resistance

Romain Loubersanes

Minimals

Lucas Zanotto

Chimera

Caleb Wood

Island

Max Moertl, Robert Loebel

Cat Days / ねこのひ

Jon Frickey

Fest

Nikita Diakur

Wednesday with Goddard

Nicolas Ménard

Ugly

Nikita Diakur

Skybaby

Julian Glander

Space Explorers

Gunner

Gifathon Trilogy

James Curran

My Moon

Eusong Lee

Computer Visions II

Andreas Nicolas Fischer

Eyes

Lucas Zanotto

Link

Robert Loebel

An Island

Rory Byrne

Mountain

StudioAKA

Love

Réka Bucsi

Forms In Nature

Chromosphere

Silk

Susi Sie

Nomad X

Kristian Andrews

填空者 Blankfillers

Celeste Lai & Peyton Skyler

G.N.O.B

Mikey Please

Upstairs

Matthias Hoegg

Ghost Stories

Late Night Work Club

Wind

Robert Loebel

Giants

Celine Desrumaux, Benedi Yann

Motorville

Patrick Jean

Happy Food

YumYum

Shift

Max Hattler

Muse

Field

Please Say Something

David OReilly

…and other films by Kevin Dart, Mikey Please, Nicolas Ménard, Adrian Dexter, Kirsten Lepore, Jun Seo Hahm, Celine Desrumaux, Julian Glander, Stefan Sagmeister, Pernille Kjaer, Andy Rementer, Alan Warburton, Philip Hunt, Mario Klingemann, Nikita Diakur, Katy Wang, Robert Löbel, Joe Donaldson, Eoin Duffy, Julien Vallée, Claudio Salas, Lucas Zanotto, James Curran, Scott Benson, Eamonn O’Neill, MrKat, Mate Steinforth, Sean Pecknold, Johnny Kelly, David Wilson, Adam Gault.

Angela Stempel

"Thanks a mil again 👏 👏 👏 You really nailed it and added so much to the piece with your work!"

Angela Stempel / Independent Animator

Animation World Magazine

"You’d be hard pressed to find a recent indie animation short or commissioned work that doesn’t feature David Kamp’s name in the credits. From Nikita Diakur’s Ugly, Nicholas Ménard’s Wednesday with Goddard, David OReilly’s Please Say Something to commissioned projects for Ted-Ed, The New York Times and other organizations I’ve no desire to plug without full compensation, Kamp’s soundscapes are distinct."

Founder Ottawa International Animation Festival OIAF / AWN Interview

Form Magazine Nº 279

"In animated films, the key task of sound design is to bring abstract images to life and to find convincing soundscapes for the frequently fantastic worlds, even and especially if they have no connection to everyday reality. David Kamp manages this in an impressive manner. His soundscapes open up the cinematic space beyond the framework of the screen, entirely in the spirit of Béla Balázs, who noted: The possibility afforded by sound films to hear the space without having to see it, the ability to regard the most intimate close-up and simultaneously hear the entire breadth of the huge space, offers contrapuntal potential which has seldom been exploited in cinema and hardly ever to full effect."

Prof. Sound Design & Film Sound HAW Hamburg / VP AES Central Europe / Author “Sound in Animation” published in Form Magazine

Nexus Studios

"David Kamp was brilliant. He created a cinematic soundscape that really helps make these flat, book-like compositions come to life."

Nicolas Ménard / Designer & Director / Nexus Studios

Chromosphere

"You know how when you have an idea for something in your mind, and it seems like it'll be so epic and beautiful, but then you start drawing and you're just constantly disappointed? And so you contact a musician to try and dig that original inspiration out of your crummy drawings and turn it into the great thing you were imagining? That's what David does. Every single time."

Kevin Dart / Animation Director & Founder / Chromosphere