Edited onApril 12, 2023

Meet Lisa Hammer

Lisa Hammer is an NYC based composer, singer, writer, director, producer, filmmaker, and actress.

Lisa was the lead singer of Gothic rock bands: Requiem in White (1985-1994), The Order of the N.C.S. (1994), Mors Syphilitica (1996-2002) and currently sings/composes with Radiana.

She composes many FMA Team

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 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/er kept me on the site for days. Other sites are not set up to both play and the tracks. As an editor, you need to 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 ed 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; 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 Ghost Surf Rock on a popular podcast; You're Wrong About. So make sure you artists all your songs you've been sitting on...ASAP!

Lisa Hammer