ABOUT
Eric Phillips is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator originally from Boston, Massachusetts. He began his career working under veteran composer Mark Orton in Portland, Oregon, best known for his long-standing collaboration with legendary auteur filmmaker Alexander Payne (Nebraska, The Holdovers). Since then, Eric has composed music for numerous feature films, documentaries, and video games. Recent credits include Higher Ground and Concordia Studios’ Netflix docuseries Working: What We Do All Day starring Barack Obama, Crooked Media’s Dreamtown (Tribeca 2023), Jan Haaken’s award-winning documentaries, and the feature film 12 Mighty Orphans. He also assisted on Payne’s Oscar-winning The Holdovers. Eric has also written music for major podcasts that have won Emmys, and Ambies for folks including Bad Robot, Crooked Media, Spotify, New York Times, Pushkin, Apple, Pineapple Street and more.
Drawing from both classical training as well as his time producing & performing with his own experimental groups, Eric moves fluidly between crafting character driven scores for a large orchestral ensembles and self-producing novel performances from his ever-growing collection of instruments from around the world, from 1920s-era guitars to waldzither, pump organ, charango, autoharp, banjo, Rhodes, ngoni, gusli, dobro, and tape machines.
In parallel with his scoring work, Eric releases music under the project name Kennebec, a genre-defying chamber-folk and cinematic ensemble serving as a creative laboratory for Eric’s most uninhibited ideas. Through Kennebec, he has collaborated with modern indie, jazz, pop, and classical luminaries including Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Sudan Archives, Yazz Ahmed, Alfa Mist, and Joe Armon-Jones. He has also shared stages with Arooj Aftab, Kevin Morby, Joep Beving, and Minus the Bear, and performed at festivals such as PDX Jazz and South by Southwest.
Outside the studio, he likes to spend his time hiking, collecting field recordings and testing new ways to make his partner Emily laugh. Recent favorites have included The Studio, HollowKnight: Silksong, Lincoln in the Bardo and Paris: Texas.
Full Credits
Film
Damien & Michael - Composer
The Cortége (theater) - Composer
The Doghouse — Short — Composer
MASC — Composer
A Simple Machine — Additional Music
The Zebra & the Bear — Composer
The Palestine Exception — Composer
Polk County — Composer
Covenant of the Salmon People — Composer
Atomic Bamboozle — Short — Composer
Tongass Roadless Protections — Video — Composer
The Holdovers — Composer Assistant
Working: What We Do All Day — TV Series — Additional Music
The Ghost — Short — Composer
Look Away, Look Away — Composer
Charming the Hearts of Men — Composer Assistant / Copyist
12 Mighty Orphans — Additional Music
Negrón: A Tennis Short — Short — Composer
To the Edge of the Sky — Composer Assistant / Orchestrator
Back to Love — TV Movie — Composer Assistant (Transcription)
From the Ashes — Composer Assistant
The Lears — Composer Assistant
Booyaka!! — Short — Composer
Fallout High — Short — Composer
The Burtons — Short — Composer
Ryder and the Elephant — Composer
Chehalis: A Watershed Moment — Composer
Myosotis Love — Short — Composer
The Last Shift — Composer Assistant / Copyist
Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance — Composer’s Assistant
The 11th Green — Composer Assistant / Copyist
Giants — Short — Composer
Our Bodies Our Doctors — Composer
Elsewhere — Composer Assistant (Uncredited)
Here Awhile — Additional Music / Composer Assistant
Use Me — Additional Music
Sunset Over Mulholland Drive — Composer Assistant / Copyist
Jim Allison: Breakthrough — Composer Assistant / Copyist
One Life to Give — Composer
The Reluctant Radical — Composer Assistant
Into the Woods — Short — Composer
Life Sentences — Short — Composer
Mastodon — Short — Composer
A Flight of Fancy — Short — Composer
At My Fingertips — Short — Composer
Swimming Pool — Short — Composer
Podcasts
SYGNYL — Composer
The Line — Additional Music
Wind of Change — Composer
Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage — Composer
Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto — Composer
Project Unabom — Composer
The Fighty Pucks — Composer
Death on the Farm — Composer
Dear Felicity — Composer
Games
Pond Water — Composer
Reindeer! — Composer
Dear Felicity — Composer
Will You Snail — Mixing, Production, Sound Design
Oscillarium — Composer
MUSIC FOR FILM / DOCUMENTARY
MUSIC FOR GAMES
KENNEBEC
In parallel with his scoring work, Eric releases music under the project name Kennebec, a genre-defying chamber-folk and cinematic ensemble serving as a creative laboratory for some of his most uninhibited ideas. Through Kennebec, Eric has collaborated with modern indie, jazz, pop, and classical luminaries including Samuel T. Herring, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Sudan Archives, Yazz Ahmed, Alfa Mist, and Joe Armon-Jones. He has also shared stages with Arooj Aftab, Kevin Morby, Joep Beving, and Minus the Bear, and performed at festivals such as PDX Jazz and South by Southwest.
This collection of music explores some mixture of psychedelic ambient-jazz, gospel, small chamber folk ensembles playing music loosely inspired by Final Fantasy and Howard Shore, indie-rock, downtempo orchestral hip-hop, taped out folk guitars and analog synthesizers.
MUSIC FOR PODCASTS
Thank you for listening! I genuinely cherish collaborating with other creatives on all sorts of new projects - from TV series to interactive media and beyond. If you’d like to get in touch, please fill out the form below or email me directly at Hello at EricPhillipsMusic.com
