Joel Haines

Joel Haines has composed screen music for over two decades, including soundtracks for TV shows Outrageous Fortune, Westside, The Brokenwood Mysteries and Mercy Peak— plus movies This Way of Life and After the Waterfall. Haines has also created themes for dozens of high profile brands (Air New Zealand, McDonald's), and channel music for TV2, Māori Television, and Sky Sports.

A film and TV composer is part of a big machine working towards a much bigger picture than your music. Forgetting everything you think you know, and taking direction from a multitude of sources, and turning it into music that is not your signature sound, or even remotely resembling any music you've made before, is a challenge — but a greatly rewarding one. Joel Haines, in an interview with website The Big Idea, 22 May 2017