Over the last six years or so Alister has been composing, recording, performing and producing film music for television and cinema.
Much of this work has been for the wonderful director Ivan Sen.

Ivan's films and documentaries have gained him a reputation as one of the most talented writer/directors in Australia today and have won him many awards both here and overseas. He is also a musician and in recent times Alister and Ivan have worked collaboratively on music for his films.

Some of these films are.

Journey, one hour short film- winner Best Score- Edge of the World Film Festival, Hobart 1998
Tears, short film
Vanish, documentary
Wind, short film
Dust, short film
Shifting Shelter Two, documentary
Yellow Fella, selected for Cannes Film Festival 2005 a documentary about Tom Lewis star of The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith'

Beneath Clouds, feature film. Nominated for Best Score at the Australian Film Industry awards and the Film Critics Circle awards 2002.

As well as this Alister has written the music for Tom Zubrycki's feature length documentary Molly and Mobarak
which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in 2003.

Dakiyarr versus the King - winner of the best New Film Award (Dendy Awards) at the Sydney Film festival June 2004 and selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2005

The music for these films is characterised by atmosphere and integration.
Alister is particularly interested in the interface between music and sound design, as characterised by such bands as Radio Head and films such as 'Seven' and 'Traffic'. His involvement with sampling technology and digital recording mediums provides a way in to this area.
As well as this he has written for string ensembles (from 20 piece orchestra to string quartet to solo cello), uillean pipes, shakuhachi, grand piano, percussion, guitars.
Alister works in Protools and Logic Audio. From his background as first a classical then a jazz pianist/composer/arranger Alister has a thorough grounding in theory/composition and orchestration.