Sam Slater

Biography

Two-time Grammy Award-winning composer, sound designer, and music producer Sam Slater is known for his roles as both score producer and musical sound designer for Joker and Chornobyl. 

In addition to his two Grammy Award wins for Joker and Chornobyl, he has also won an Icelandic Music Award as "Producer of the Year" and a MASA Award for 'Best Sound Design in Television Program'.

As a composer, in 2020 he scored Guerilla, a feature film about freedom fighters in Myanmar directed by Anyrin Bowyn, as well as The River Between Us, a documentary feature on uncontacted Peruvian tribes. 

He also composed the score for I Am Not A Monster, a BBC / PBS Podcast telling the story of an American mother who brought her son to live in war-torn Syria. The podcast won several awards and was noted for its complex and weighty sound world.

Slater began producing records in his teens and studied Experimental Composition at Leeds University before moving to Germany to begin his professional career. He got his start working as Johann Johannsson's principal musical sound designer and creative engineer, collaborating on several projects.

He frequently collaborates with Academy Award-winning composer Hildur Gudnadóttir and in 2019, he engineered a live touring performance of the Chornobyl score for a bespoke, immersive sound system inside an abandoned telephone factory in Krakow, Poland. The show will continue to tour worldwide in 2022.

Additionally, he released a solo record on Iceland's acclaimed Bedroom Community and produced, recorded, and mixed a multitude of records, including work from composers Colin Stetson, Ben Frost, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Yair Glotman and Mica Levi. His follow-up solo album will be released in 2022 on Bedroom Community.

Slater originally hails from Southwest England and has been based in Berlin, Germany since 2013.