Film & Television Composer
Sound Designer · Synthesist · Modular Artist — High Desert of New Mexico
Music for films — including films that haven't been made yet. Cinematic scores built from orchestras, guitars, and walls of modular synthesizers.
Craig Anthony Perkins is an award-winning composer and filmmaker who has been a musician nearly his whole life — drums at four, guitar at eight, and most things with strings or keys by fourteen. A Southern California native now scoring from his studio in the High Desert of New Mexico, he writes music that lives where orchestral drama meets analog electricity.
His first feature score, for SyFy Channel's Zombie Tidal Wave, was followed in quick succession by Arctic Apocalypse (SyFy U.K.) and the horror feature Clown (Amazon Prime). His short film The Haunting at Danford Cabin took Best Animation and the Grand Prize for Best Overall Film at the 2012 iPhone Film Festival.
Along the way he has worked across the entertainment industry — Philips Media, Universal Interactive Studios, AVID, and M-Audio — in roles spanning game design, sound design, film post-production, and product development. He releases his own cinematic ambient and electronic work as Genshi on his label, ZERO:GENSHI Records.
2019 — SyFy Channel Original
Craig's first feature score — a full-throttle action-horror soundtrack for the SyFy original from the director of Sharknado, written alongside composers Chris Ridenhour and Christopher Cano. Surf, screams, and brass hits at flank speed.
2019 — SyFy U.K.
A new ice age arrives ahead of schedule. The score answers with glacial textures, low brass dread, and string writing that keeps the temperature dropping — orchestral disaster music with frost on every cue.
2019 — Amazon Prime
Pure nightmare fuel. For this Amazon Prime horror feature the score trades melody for menace — detuned music boxes, scraped metal, and modular synthesis twisted into something that grins in the dark.
Twenty-eight releases of cinematic ambient, electronic, and experimental work on ZERO:GENSHI Records — every cover below opens the project on Apple Music.