Alex Wakim
Composer
From whimsical orchestral music, to dark indie synths, and a dash of Arabic music.With work presented at SXSW 2025, the Tribeca Film Festival 2024; his original music-based book, Dust and Ions, co-written with Yara Zgheib, slated for publishing with Rose Metal Press; and a recent premiere with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Alex Wakim’s unique musical aesthetic has led him to push barriers in sound and story.
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Selected Credits
Ebb & Flow (Tribeca 2024)
Original Synths and Pop
To Fade Away (dir. Camille Hamade)
Brooding Orchestral
Stockade (Woodstock 2023)
Minimalist Propulsion
Inukjuak (Feature Doc)
Ice Meets a Snowglobe
Manicure (Woodstock 2023)
Romantic Gothic
Night Nurse (Alter 2023)
Manipulated Bass
Horizon Forbidden West
(Sony, Orchestrations)
Mastermind (Hulu, Orchestrations)
About
With work presented at SXSW 2025, the Tribeca Film Festival 2024; his original music-based book, Dust and Ions, co-written with Yara Zgheib, slated for publishing with Rose Metal Press; and a recent premiere with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Alex Wakim’s unique musical aesthetic has led him to push barriers in sound and story. His music is found scoring Julianne Moore, propelling large public initiatives - including the Kansas Health Foundation and the Greater Wichita Partnership, in collaboration with Gardner Design - and featured in the Raindance & Woodstock Film Festivals, Doc NYC, off-Broadway at the Alvin Ailey Theater, the National Portrait Gallery, and more.
His experimentation with traditional Arabic instruments and tropes, such as the ney, to create unique synths and worlds of expression in film have led a cinematic Middle-Eastern album to be published with APM, as well as receiving the Reel Change Grant for his work on Nay Tabbara’s film, Ebb & Flow, which premiered at Tribeca.His second album, Chasing Moons, has also received acclaim, released under the Artists Recording Collective label. Based in NYC, collaboration is key to Wakim’s approach to creating. He also loves stargazing, history, and subtly heartbreaking stories – and is currently developing Nour, an album about his grandmother’s life and exile, as well as An American in Beirut, a dark comedy about the power of laughter.
An American in Beirut
A new musical: One woman is determined to have her wedding while the world falls apart around her in the aftermath of the August 4th, 2020 Beirut port explosion. Currently developing in NYC.
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Claire
A concept album meets documentary, about my grandmother's experience growing up in the Levant and her inevitable exile. Continuing development.
Dust and Ions
Originally a concept album, Dust and Ions has evolved into a show, an orchestral suite (premiering with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra in February 2025), and a hybrid-book, slated for publishing with Rose Metal Press in 2026.
Chasing Moons
An intimate album about eternal return to 'home' and magical moments that we feel we remembered. Released with the Artists Recording Collective, premiered on NPR Radio KS.