The Themes of Flood

Set from Flood Part 2 (Malcolm Johnson Photography)
Flood, a show of four parts, had four main themes. Inventing and developing themes is massively rewarding fun that you only really get to do on long projects - for example, on multi-part theatre, or feature films. It's all about exploration and trying to push the boundaries of these tiny motifs in melody, rhythm and sound design.

It Happened Here and Writing for the Sake Of It

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It Happened Here is a Slung Low audio/installation adventure set in Holbeck, Leeds, which opened in August 2016.  It Happened Here was a surprisingly freeing project to work on; usually my work is underscoring dialogue or action, either as live theatre or onscreen, and synchronisation with these events is a high priority - synchronisation of tone, emotion, pace, volume and …