I scored a number of minutes in episodes 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 under lead composer Nainita Desai. The music is orchestral, electronic, ethnic and eclectic, with elements of epic adventure and playful intrigue. A absolute joy to be involved with.
About the show
An adaptation of the classic H. G. Wells novel, Nautilus follows Nemo and his ragtag crew as they steal a formidable prototype submarine and escape into the Indian Ocean, determined to take revenge on the evil East India Mercantile Company and the British Empire. A rollicking adventure with glorious undersea creatures and righteous purpose.
A jukeboxy, fun, high-energy soundtrack full of orchestral homages to Hollywood and classic pop, rock and jazz from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond. A genuine, true joy to write for.
About the show
An animated series about a little truck who ‘swops her top’, Mojo and her friend Bo help the townsfolk of Swoppiton with any challenge that arises. ‘Helping you is what we do!’ is their motto, getting into hilarious scrapes and delightful adventures for 11 minutes every episode.
Transmission: Christmas 2022, and streaming on Sky and NowTV
The fairytale anthology series After Ever After returns to Sky (UK) at Christmas with a sequel to Little Red Riding Hood. This is the fourth instalment of the festive comedy drama of Christmas specials.
Broadcast 23rd December Sky Max, 8pm; streaming on Sky and NowTV.
“Fifty years after the events of the classic fairy-tale, a grown-up Red Riding Hood has established a fearsome reputation within the village of Wolferton as a deadly Wolf Buster, hunting down wolves with her Wolf Blaster and ridding them from the forest forever. Red’s eager and intelligent granddaughter Red Riding Boots wants desperately to become a Wolf Buster herself, having listened to her grandmother tell the famous story many times.
“When two wealthy German tourists Helga and Otto arrive demanding to see a real-life wolf, Plank and his son Chip do their best to con as much money out of them as possible, even if that involves Chip going into the deep dark forest all alone. Boots takes matters into her own hands and hunts down a wolf where she learns from a wise old owl called Twit that the forest is suffering and out of balance, making Mother Nature very angry that the natural order of the forest is being disrupted.
“Boots decides that she must save wolves from extinction after all.”
I compose short tracks for Arturia demonstrating their software. Some of them are plugins or standalone software versions of classic analog synths, some are made using libraries of sounds made from those synths and others are collections of effects that you can apply to any other sound.
This is genuinely an absolute joy – Arturia makes gorgeous sounds and really playable, full-featured software synths.
Every time I get asked it’s a little bit like Christmas – I can’t wait to get my mits on the sounds and create all sorts of interesting ambient, cinematic music*
Arturia also sometimes puts out YouTube videos analysing these tracks, showing how I used the software.
The tracks can also be found on sales pages for their respective software plugins or sound packs. So far I’ve written demos for:
(Demo not on sales page, only YouTube – see above)
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Full disclosure: I get paid to write the tracks and receive a license to use the software, but don’t get paid to say how great the software is. This isn’t #sponcon.These analog synth emulators, sound packs and FX collections are genuinely awesome and much fun to use.
15 Minutes Live is show featuring a series of short new plays, performed live, radio-style, in front of an audience with on-stage sound effects and a live band with an original musical score. Starting in 2011 with the most recent in 2021, there have been 5 shows in total where I’ve composed and conducted the band.
“Signs were spotted popping up all over Holbeck; tales of Holbeck’s glorious past and magical present.
“They were part of a project Slung Low created with members of our writer’s group. Our free writer training scheme that has been running, free, for the last 18 months with Casualty writer Mark Catley and Freedom Studio’s Artistic Director Aisha Khan.
“Holbeck is a brilliant place and we are very proud of being based here. A lot of our work means we have to spend time away (our last two shows in 2016 took us to Switzerland and the RSC in Stratford Upon Avon, we’re often on the road) but where ever we go we talk proudly of our place here in Holbeck. And we want to make more work here, this sign project was part of that ambition. 72 stories, written by residents of Holbeck and wider Leeds, placed on lamp-posts. Inspired by the brilliant, complicated present and past of Holbeck. Audiences were invited to read this magic-real version of the town only if they walked through and within it.
“We work a lot with the very brilliant writer John Hunter and he created an audio play, which tied together these signs with a new narrative of his own creation. We wanted something that could be a fun way to get our guests at the HUB out into Holbeck, a dramatic introduction to the area that we love so much. Following a map designed by John Welding and listening to the music of Heather Fenoughty we thought this was the most interesting way for our various guests and visitors to the HUB to experience the place we’ve made our company home.”
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