Jay Wadley

Owner / ECD / Composer at Found Objects

Jay Wadley is the Owner, Executive Creative Director, and Composer at Found Objects Music Productions since January 2007, specializing in award-winning music for film, TV, ads, and video games. Previous experience includes serving as Music Editor and Curator for FLATTmagazine from 2011 to 2015, and as Orchestration Consultant for Rufus Wainwright on "Prima Donna" and "Shakespeare's Sonnets." Notable projects also include orchestrating the "Waters of Mars" episode of Doctor Who in late 2009. In an academic capacity, Jay Wadley was a Teaching Fellow in Composition and Practical Applications in Music at Yale University, where responsibilities included instructing students and managing studio facilities. Educational credentials consist of an Artist Diploma and a Master of Music in Music Composition from Yale University, as well as a Bachelor of Music in Music Composition from Oklahoma City University.

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Brooklyn, United States

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Found Objects

Found Objects is an original music and sound collective founded by award-winning composers Jay Wadley and Trevor Gureckis. Our recent original Film and TV scores include Oscar-Winning writer/director Charlie Kaufman’s feature I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix), M. Night Shyamalan’s original series Servant (AppleTV+), Sundance-winning I Carry You With Me (Sony Pictures Classics) directed by Oscar-Nominated Director Heidi Ewing, and The Innocence Files (Netflix) directed by Oscar-Winning/Nominated directors Roger Ross Williams, Alex Gibney and Liz Garbus. Our new state-of-the-art studios in Dumbo, Brooklyn features a live room and 5.1 Mix room where we recently hosted the score mix for John Chu’s upcoming film adaptation of Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights (Warner Brothers). We have collaborated and orchestrated for artists such as Kanye West, D.R.A.M., Philip Glass, Rufus Wainwright, Niia, Mark Ronson, Calexico and Andrew Wyatt (Miike Snow). Our original music for branded work has won Clios, Cannes Lions, AMP Awards, AICP Awards, LIA awards, Webby Awards, and others.


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