about

Nicholas Roder is a composer and musician from Melbourne/Naarm, Australia. His work spans music for screen, dance and video games, as well as arranging and creating original solo material.

Since 2022, Nick has worked closely alongside British film composer Oliver Coates as a composer’s assistant. He has assisted Oliver on several projects for screen, including films 'The History of Sound', 'Pillion', '100 Nights of Hero' and 'Foe' and TV series’ 'Mary & George' and 'Omnivore'. He also collaborated with Oliver on the music for Dior’s 2023 Fall show in Mumbai, 2024 show in Scotland and 2025 show in Rome.

Nick has composed music for several video games including 'This Dead Winter', 'N1NE: The Splintered Mind', 'The Invisible Hand' and 'Roadwarden', which featured on several “game of the year” lists by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Telegraph UK and PC Gamer.

In 2021 Nick released his first solo album as Nick Roder / Indigo. The first album 'Part I' was released by Melbourne label Music Company and features nine pieces for bass guitar and tenor saxophone. Album 'Deviations / Part II' was released in 2025 with an accompanying video made by animator Jon DiNapoli.

Since 2022, Nick has collaborated with contemporary dancer and director Harrison Ritchie-Jones on a range of projects at the intersection of dance/movement, music, and film. These include dance film 'Banshee Cried Silver', and live works 'CUDDLE' (premiered at the 2023 FRAME Biennial in Melbourne), 'Big Wig Small Gig' (Stephanie Lake’s ESCALATOR series), 'Tantrum For Six' (PIECES 2023), 'Pigeon Humongous' (created for Sydney Dance Company as part of their 2025 New Breed program) and 'Requiem for a Cuddle', a choral work for over 150 Balaclava-clad singers (Melbourne Fringe Festival 2025).