Meet Lisa Hammer

I have been immersed in classical, Indian, and rock music since childhood. I decided to merge them with my bands Requiem in White and Mors Syphilitica. It sounded like Black Sabbath with an opera singer! We made a name for ourselves playing the Boston and NY scenes in the 80's and 90's and eventually recording and touring. - Lisa Hammer
Back then, we used a TR707 drum machine (we couldn't find a sane drummer until 1992) and Tascam 4-track recorder, before eventually venturing into a real studio for our first album. I was also attending film school and making avant-garde silent movie shorts, which I would score, plus I was studying opera with great teachers. I managed to make a great living both with my music and my filmmaking throughout my career, and currently, I am merging the two skills with my edit gigs, exploring music supervision.

Fast-forward to my recent introduction to FMA. In 2018, I was hired to re-edit a feature film starring Molly Ringwald. This feature film (with a killer soundtrack and a great edit) is now being delivered to the distributor and will be streaming on one of the big platforms. It really needed cool underground punk and synth music to make the film more hip and ironic. - Lisa Hammer
My band Radiana was already on FMA, so I looked around the site and found it to be a treasure trove of great unknown artists and cutting-edge sounds. The easy music player/downloader kept me on the site for days. Other sites are not set up to both play and download the tracks. As an editor, you need to download music and place it into a scene first to see if it even works, and I often edit to the music.

This year I decided to give back to FMA, so I uploaded my multiple soundtrack series to my page and I am offering 80+ songs to creatives for their own projects. I already have a song placed in an ad for a British travel website; Best Tube To. In fact, the amount of plays of all of my songs in the first few days has really blown my mind. Tens of thousands. It's exciting to give back and to see these results so quickly. - Lisa Hammer

Soundtrack Series: CyberGothSteamPunk - Released 2023
Considered cyber/techno/house/industrial/goth dance ambient music, these were written for film (History of Steampunk documentary) and various stage projects (Grimmer than Grimm, Midsummer Nightmare) using samples, loops, drum machines, and synths. Not really reinventing the wheel here, just some good background music with beats that I took the time to create. - Lisa Hammer

Soundtrack Series: Campy Sci-Fi and Horror - Released 2023
The perfect score for your no-budget zombie apocalypse film or your Dario Argento movie night, or perhaps a kaiju wrestling match. - Lisa Hammer

Soundtrack Series: Horror and Dread - Released 2023
Composed sound beds and scores for horror, post-apocalypse, dread, and otherwise terrifying film soundtracks. Some may cross over to campy horror depending on how you use them. - Lisa Hammer

Soundtrack Series: Half-Baked Oddities - Released 2023
Incidental music and sound FX for projects: Bad bands, dumb muzak, frantic beats, inspirational garbage, lo-fi indie rock for your very own ironic listening or use in any project. - Lisa Hammer

Soundtrack Series: Fairies, Supernatural, Gods and Magic - Released 2023
Music originally composed for Shakespeare performances: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Ceasar, and other film and stage projects. Lots of pretty and fun fairy songs sounds from the far East, ancient hymns, music of the gods, and magic... You can use them any way you want.

I'm also actively scouting around FMA for music for my new edit gigs, I use Rrrrrose Azerty's music in my films now because of FMA, plus I've heard her song Ghost Surf Rock on a popular podcast; You're Wrong About. So make sure you artists upload all your songs you've been sitting on...ASAP!

Lisa Hammer