Desent played keyboards in the bands
Spats, and
The Crocodiles. He leads the chamber-jazz group
the Umbrellas, is writing a book on the music of
Nino Rota and currently works in music composition for film and television, most notably in the children's television series
Play School. Some of his more famous works were with film maker
Peter Jackson in three of his early productions :
Meet the Feebles (1989),
Braindead (1992) and
Heavenly Creatures (1994). He also composed the music of three other movies :
Channelling Baby (2000),
Cubbyhouse (2001), and
Voodoo Lagoon (2006), plus some music for TV series and documentaries. ==References==