‘The Light Below’ Winner of Best Sound Design and nominated for Best Score at Cincinnati’s Fright Film Festival 2024.

‘Metamorphosis’ Premiered at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Art Center 2024.

‘Willingly Into Darkness’ Premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival in NYC 2023

Michael Oliva (b. 1985 Boston, MA) is an award winning Cincinnati based Film & Media Composer, Audio Engineer, & the founder/creative mind behind the psychedelic rock trio The Harlequins (2007-present).

Credits Include:

Composer
2021 - When The Night Bell Tolls
2022 - Nibeos
2023 - Rockin Baker, Willingly Into Darkness
2024 - Metamorphosis, The Light Below (Nominated for Best Original Music at Cincinnati’s Fright Film Fest),
‘A New Champion’ - Orchestral Tools Monolith Demo
2025 - (upcoming) VOLT, Classic

Sound Design/Post Production
2021 - Generation to Generation ‘What She Lost’ (sound department)
2023 - Morbid Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (mastering engineer), Generation to Generation ‘Eating Pebble Soup’ (sound department)
2024 - Fanboy (re-recording mixer, mastering engineer), The Light Below (Winner for Best Sound Design at Cincinnati’s Fright Film Fest / re-recording mixer, mastering engineer), Generation to Generation ‘Dignity’ (sound department)

Producer/Mixing/Mastering
2016 - Harlequins ‘One With You’
2018 - Fycus ‘Underneath the Overhang’, Orchards ’S/T’
2019 - Harlequins ‘Among No Flowers’ Single
2021 - Moan ‘Edge of Town’ Single, Ellina ‘The Forest’
2022 - Harlequins ‘TIME’, Sea Dax ’SIX’
2023 - Harlequins ‘Bloodletting of a Snitch/Invader’, Harlequins ‘Cry Wolf’, Gremlin ‘1-800 Gremlin’, Gremlin ‘Same Fate/Bliss, Black Surfboards ’S/T’
2024 - Annie D ‘Colors - Live at the Tone Shoppe’, Left at Orion ‘Radiowaves’, Gremlin ‘It’s Open’, Black Surfboards ‘Summer Heat’, Pretty Mean ‘Hell’s Within Me’, Aaron, Plain & Tall ‘Everyone Can See You’