Headland

Headland is a musical collective focused on soundscaping for film, primarily centred on surf culture and coastal landscapes. Collaborative in nature, the collective both record and perform by responding intuitively to projected film.

Headland began as a film-retrieval project directed by Murray Paterson in which 8mm film shot by amateur moviemakers in the 1970s was sourced and archived. Requiring a score, Paterson gathered together a group of friends who jammed in front of projected super8. The resulting LP, <a href="spotify:album:1NVtP1EfU0B5o9CLkHqOKm" data-name="Sound / Track">Sound / Track</a>, was released in 2013. Subsequent releases are <a href="spotify:album:0yYDpCvlF6VYnXfaIOSDnw" data-name="True Flowers from This Painted World">True Flowers from This Painted World</a> (2017) and <a href="spotify:track:7CovUHt5FcpN1yedpz2zlu" data-name="What Rough Beast">What Rough Beast</a> (2019). Headland has also released a dozen soundtracks from films by Australian filmmaker Ishka Folkwell including <a href="spotify:album:2ZaQmbopiRrpc2j0GVkeg2" data-name="Nordurland (Original Soundtrack)">Nordurland (Original Soundtrack)</a> (2019), <a href="spotify:album:3FsUEGmC2gF68fJlcBEOab" data-name="Distant Shore (Original Soundtrack)">Distant Shore (Original Soundtrack)</a> (2022), and <a href="spotify:album:3Y9OsM3irWaDrH9GwJ2G68" data-name="Calypte">Calypte</a> (2023).

In 2022 Headland produced the score to <a href="spotify:album:53jfOfG4F4jUqDiTtdNOke" data-name="Watandar">Watandar</a>, a feature-length documentary (Light Sound Art Film) following the story of human rights activist and photographer Muzafar Ali as he searches for the descendants of the Afghani cameleers who arrived in Australia in the late 1800s.

<a href="spotify:album:6AD0WHLJa9gUBAWaqw97E5" data-name="Something to do with love, but I don&#39;t know what">Something to do with love, but I don&#39;t know what</a> (2024) is an album of pieces selected from You Should Have Been Here Yesterday (Light Sound Art Film), a feature film that traces a history of Australian surf culture using restored archival surf films.