Only Murders in the Building is an Emmy-nominated American mystery-comedy television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. The first season premiered on Hulu in August 2021 and the second premiered in June 2022. The show has been renewed for Season 3.
Carol Kuswanto did piano production work in Season 2 of the show, alongside composer Siddhartha Khosla.
OMITB is available to stream on Hulu.
Smile is an album by Pepita Salim and Carol Kuswanto, released on April 16th, 2021. The album consists of songs for comfort and hope, produced and performed by Pepita on voice and Carol on piano.
Listen to “Smile” album here: https://orcd.co/pepitacarol
The Climbers is an adventure drama film directed by Daniel Lee and written by Alai. The film stars Wu Jing, Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Yi, Jing Boran, and Hu Ge. The film tells the real-life expedition of two generations of Chinese mountaineers to ascend Mount Everest from the perilous north side in 1960 and 1975. The film released in China, the United Kingdom and North America on September 30, 2019. The film earned $156.7 million at the box office worldwide.
Carol Kuswanto scored additional music alongside with main composer Henry Lai.
Based on the hit film “Score: A Film Music Documentary”, “Score: The Podcast” celebrates the musical heartbeat and emotive power of modern storytelling and the fascinating personalities who create music for the world's most popular films, television and video games.
Carol Kuswanto joins executive producer Matt Schrader co-hosts Robert Kraft and Kenny Holmes, as coordinator.
Ruwatan is a short film by Ernest Lesmana and Seroja Films. The film tells the story of Sri who accompanies her blind mother to undergo alternative therapies as one of her weekly routines. Today might be their last visit.
Original score by Carol Kuswanto
2019 Balinale Film Festival Official Selection
2019 Oaxaca Film Festival Official Selection - New Industry Selection
On “Here’s The Deal,” former Vice President Joe Biden provides a voice of clarity during uncertain times. Each episode will feature in-depth conversations about pressing issues with some of the nation’s top experts — paired with the heart, compassion, and wisdom only Joe can deliver.
Carol Kuswanto participated as an audio mixing and mastering engineer in the episode “On The Economy with Andrew Yang”, as well as provided consultation to the podcast music theme composer on behalf of Kraftbox Entertainment.
“万物有诗” or “Everything is a Poem” is an advertisement by China Union Pay released on October 12, 2020.
Carol Kuswanto scored the music in this advertisement as a freelance composer at Syn Music.
"Yappie" is a web series created by Wong Fu Productions. It is a single-camera comedy that explores the social and racial issues related to the contemporary Asian American experience from the perspective of Andrew and his friends who are all "yappies". Andrew is a 29 year old Chinese American who, for most of his life, has never questioned his place or his purpose, unintentionally becoming a "model minority". But for the first time, due to some new influences and experiences, Andrew is discovering the effects of his invisibility on the canvas of diversity and is finally realizing he wants to do something about it.
The series currently has over 4.4 million views on YouTube and it was nominated at the 2018 Streamy award for Best Show of the Year and Best Indie Web Series.
Carol Kuswanto provided additional music alongside main composer Steve Winarto.
“Slow Dancing in the Dark” is the second single from 88rising’s Joji’s debut album, “Ballads 1”. The album debuted at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart and the single’s official video has over 130 million views on YouTube. An acoustic remix of "Slow Dancing in the Dark" was released as a single on 18 October 2018. It features Joji singing over a solo piano backing played by co-producer Carol Kuswanto.
The remix has over 4.2 million plays on Spotify and 2 million on YouTube.
A short animation by JJ Anzaldi about a little thing that goes through the forest on its own adventures.
Original score by Carol Kuswanto
2018 Largo Film Awards nominee for Best Sound/Music
2018 Oniros Film Awards winner for Best Stop Motion Film
Award-winning filmmaker and creator of “Dear White People” Justin Simien is set to direct Warner Bros. untitled Sylvia Robinson project about the famed singer, songwriter, and Sugar Hill Records founder known as ‘The Mother of Hip-Hop’.
Paula Wagner acquired the film rights to Robinson’s life story five years ago from Sylvia Robinson’s son Joey Robinson. Wagner, who produced last year’s Marshall and the new Broadway musical Pretty Woman, produces through her Chestnut Ridge Productions along with Homegrown Pictures’ Stephanie Allain and Kraftbox Entertainment’s Robert Kraft.
Carol Kuswanto is an executive assistant to producer Robert Kraft at Kraftbox Entertainment.
“In My Feels with JRE and Emily Haydel” is a podcast by Himalaya Media Inc. hosted by YouTuber JREKML and Media Personality Emily Haydel as they attempt to reveal said feels through by tactfully engaging and interacting with each other, the listeners, and their colorful guests. With a focus on the Korean Music world, there is so much to uncover alongside the artists and fans.
Carol Kuswanto and collaborator Summergal co-wrote and produce the jingle music of the podcast.
A short film by Touchapoom Nirunwongwan about a professor recalling his adverse childhood through old film stock, marking his path to film-making.
Original score by Carol Kuswanto
2018 Top Shorts for Best Student Film
2018 Awareness Film Festival
2018 Short to the Point Official Selection
Carol Kuswanto accompanied 88rising’s NIKI on the piano for her rendition of “Slow Dancing in the Dark” at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. This performance was a surprise celebration for the release of Joji’s debut album, “Ballads 1”, which debuted as No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart. This was the first time the song was performed by another artist other than Joji. This was also the last show of the 88rising 2018 American tour. Although the label did not release an official video of the performance, fans have shared the videos online and since then have received positive feedback.
“Alexander at the End of the World” is a short film by Tanju Ozdemir. It tells a story of a Turkish photographer's search of his identity in which the romantic is entangled with the political.
2018 Montreal World Film Festival Official Selection
Original score by Carol Kuswanto
Jacob Collier is a Grammy Award winning artist based in London. During the Fall of 2016 Jacob performed with musicians from MIT, Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory, Boston Arts Academy, and UNH. This film features rehearsals, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with the artists, and live performance shot with 8 cameras.
This documentary film won the 2018 New England Emmy in the Arts and Entertainment category
Carol Kuswanto participated as a performer in the orchestra.
“Sugarplum Elegy” is a song originally released on December 12, 2018, written and produced by 88rising’s NIKI. It was later re-released on all streaming platforms on December 6, 2019.
Carol Kuswanto was hired to write string arrangement on this track.
Just Another Day is a short film by Wong Fu Productions in partnership with Samsung.
Carol Kuswanto scored additional music alongside main composer Steve Winarto.
Wrote string arrangement for 88rising’s NIKI Live Performance set in 88rising Festival 2017 and 2018.
Guo Guo (2017) is a short film directed by Wendy Zhang
