Alex Olijnyk is an award-winning screen music composer based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work combines acoustic and electronic textures to make cool noises. She has a background in contemporary classical music, and loves to use these traditional sounds before putting them in a blender, shaking them up, and giving them a good talking to.

Alex has scored various projects, including Paramount+’s Fake, Netflix’s Surviving Summer, and MIFF’s 2024 pick for Best Australian Short Film, The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste. She has also written additional music for the Sundance hit Together, Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar, and A24’s upcoming horror Bring Her Back.

Alex was named Emerging Screen Composer of the Year at the 2024 APRA Screen Music Awards. She was also nominated for Best Music for a Short Film for her work on ‘Augie & Celeste’, and was nominated for the same award in 2023 for ‘My Bubble-Wrapped Exorcism’. She has also been nominated for and won other cool awards at various festivals, which is nice!

Alex does much of her work as part of Hyperdynamic, an audio creations studio she founded with collaborator and sound designer Hamish Keen.