MODWHEEL

MODWHEEL is David Donaldson, Steve Roche and Janet Roddick.

We are a composing partnership and recording studio, creating music as Plan 9 for over 25 years.

Plan 9 have been nominated for and won numerous film and TV awards both in New Zealand and internationally. they were nominated for the Critics Choice Documentary Awards for Best Score in 2019 for They Shall Not Grow Old.

Plan 9 has scored 30 feature films in addition to working on the last 10 of Peter Jackson's movies in varying capacities. Our work for Peter includes full scoring as well as musical sound design, and in collaboration with long time friend and colleague David Long for the LOTR and Hobbit films, the writing and performing of "cultural" music.

David and Steve also release their own music under the name Thrashing Marlin having released 4 albums to date. A new album is due in out late 2022.

Making distinctive virtual instruments for Kontakt (often from their large musical instrument collection) has always been part of Plan 9's work. MODWHEEL was set up to develop this and to make these original instruments available to other composers and musicians.

We are confident we can put together distinctive, useful and very usable virtual musical instruments for music producers, whether for soundtrack, instrumental or song composition.