CJ MIRRA (he / him) is an Australian / British recording artist, composer and sound designer based in the U.K. CJ began writing music to picture for numerous surf films, creating music soon dubbed “the sound of cold water surfing” and was soon invited to score numerous TV series and films.
In early 2025 he was asked by Dir, Akinola Davies to oversee the sound and music of his feature debut, My Father’s Shadow (Element / MUBI) and co-scored the film with Duval Timothy. The film is the first Nigerian film to premiere at Cannes Film Festival.
TV credits include flagship U.S drama, ‘Rescue:Hi Surf’ (John Wells Productions / Warner) BBC Drama, ‘Kidnapped’ (co-scored with Andrea Balency) , AppleTV’s ‘Make or Break’ and award-winning films such as Lizard (Akinola Davies), Layla (Amrou Al-Khadi), Nascondino (Victoria Fiore) A Banquet (Ruth Paxton – for which he won best horror soundtrack), Martin Radich’s ’Norfolk’ collaborating with Chris Watson & JG Thirlwell among many others.
His fluid, emotive and original approach to music and sound design, combining otherworldly electronics with live instrumentation has led to long-standing collaborations with filmmakers from many different backgrounds and genres.
His sound design work has received a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Sound for the feature documentary Time Trial (dir. Finlay Pretsell).
He has also created many immersive audio-visual installations for Somerset House, LightNight and other art performance events including a pioneering binuaral live experience with sonic artist, Dallas Simpson
CJ’s longest running collaboration is with surf film director, Chris McClean, a partnership that toured an award-winning live audio/visual performances world-wide as well as releasing ‘Static (Original Surf Soundtracks Vol I)’ and ‘Translate’ via theState51conspiracy label.
CJ launched CJ’s Mirra Maze, a new band project in 2023 releasing two singles and was invited to support cult legends Panchiko on their sold-out UK tour and will be reviving the Colour8 imprint in 2025.
Other studio work has contributed to releases by Mount Kimbie, Allen Ginsberg, Mike Slott and many more.
General:
cjmirrasound@gmail.com
Composer Agent:
HDuff@FirstArtistsMgmt.com – UK
HFlame@firstartistsmgmt.com – US
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CJ Mirra 