Basil Hogios is a composer, architect, sound designer and audio technologist whose work spans film, theatre, large-scale indoor and outdoor performance, and installation art. Originally from Sydney, where he trained in architecture and then a masters in film music (AFTRS), he built a substantial body of work in music scoring and sound design before spending twelve years living and working across Europe in different cultures and languages, on diverse projects of varying scales and disciplines. He is now back in Australia, focused on work where music (live and recorded), 3D immersive audio, physical spaces and live experiences intersect.
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As the 2025 Assemblage Artist-in-Residence at Flinders University, he further developed this work through his research project Re-Present : Re-Transmit, exploring how spatial audio can reshape the relationship between audience, performers and story. Creating a performance space in ambisonic audio with live actors, that collaboration continues with the same team into a new original production, Oranges and Lemons.
Deeply collaborative by nature, Basil is seeking to expand and enrich his artistic collaborations into other fields such as science, architecture, data, psychology and community practice. He believes the most powerful and socially important work grows at the intersection of disciplines, and through genuine connection across cultures, languages and art practices. He is now at a point where his experience in music, sound, film, theatre and architecture are no longer separate threads, but a single integrated practice.
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His proposed project “Re-Present : Re-Transmit”, combining performance cueing technology with immersive audio software is, a new creative work investigating the potential role of immersive audio in the musical dramaturgies of text-based drama performance, and its implications for the intersection of live theatrical performance within immersive environments.
His rare combination of composing, producing, audio-visual design, and a passion for arts and culture has lead to working on large scale productions internationally. He was the musical director/sound designer for Esch2022 European Capital of Culture Opening event in Luxembourg, reprising his role as composer/musical director for the Opening Ceremony of ECC Aarhus 2017, in Denmark. For Dreamworks and Global Creatures, he was the arranger, co-composer and re-mixer for the arena show of How To Train Your Dragon, working with Jónsi & Alex and the composer of the film John Powell, under the direction of Nigel Jamieson. In Australia, he composed orchestral and contemporary music with Caitlin Yeo for the major rework of The Australian Outback Spectacular. Also in Australia, Dream Masons was a theatrical spectacle of grand proportions drawing a public audience of 14,000 people over four nights, with Basil conducting his own score for a musical ensemble and choir
For the screen, Basil has scored over thirty films, from features to shorts, many of them screening and awarded in international film festivals. Most recently he composed the score for the Czech animated feature 'About the Devil'. He composed the score for the critically acclaimed feature film Romulus My Father, starring Eric Bana and Franka Potente, for which he received an AFI nomination, and collaborated with Caitlin Yeo to compose the 10 part TV series The PM's Daughter, and the haunting score for the Channel 7 tele-movie The Killing Field. He also composed for the feature All About E, fusing middle eastern and Greek elements into a contemporary film score. He also composed songs and score for Andy X, a screen 'musical dreamplay' by Jim Sharman (Rocky Horror Picture Show) based on the life of Andy Warhol.
Basil is no stranger to smaller stages. He performed the songs and live score in 3 seasons of the hit show Songs For the Fallen which won best show at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. For the stage, Basil has collaborated with some of Australia’s theatre greats on mainstage shows for Sydney Theatre Co, Melbourne Theatre Co, Company B Belvoir, Bell Shakespeare, and Griffin. He collaborated with Nigel Jamieson on Wrong Skin, a devised dance/drama work at the Adelaide and Darwin Festivals. He was the musical director and pianist in Germany and Poland for Mrs Bang: a Series of Seductions which won Best Cabaret at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and was nominated for a Green Room award. He received the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Score, for the critically acclaimed Three Furies, (Sydney, Auckland, Perth and Adelaide Arts Festivals), also directed by Jim Sharman, performing as pianist with his band.
However Basil likes to work in areas beyond screen or stage composition. His three collaborations with renowned video installation artist Kate Murphy explore relationships between music/sound, image, narrative, and architectural space. He was also asked to design the visual projections for a concert 'Songs From the Green Land' in Copenhagen, for Aarhus Jazz Orchestra and an Innuit Choir.
He enjoys getting out of the studio from time to time: he spent 3 months on the road in Spain with the 8 Million Steps documentary project, resulting in no less than 10 short documentary films. He has released 2 albums, A Spark In The Ashes, and The Perfect Boy/Trapture.
Basil also began a person work, 'Sylektis', which began as an experiment in remote collaboration during the Covid pandemics. He invented a new creative process that connected musical, sound and voice artists all around the world, focussing their artistic responses to human stories, found sounds, real-life events and poetry. The musical tracks of Collection 1 are the results of that experiment, with another collection on the way.
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