Beyond The Front Line – Up and Running
Beyond The Front Line, the Slung Low promenade show, is now playing at the Lowry Theatre in Salford until next weekend (17th Oct 2009)
TOCANLive: The Hunt Goes Live Online!
EDIT: TOCANLive is offline now. It was a wonderful experience to make and so this post is here for posterity. Slung Low, the fantabulous theatrical collective, is launching TOCANLive this Monday, 10th August. TOCANLive is an Alternative Reality Game (ARG) that will expand the world of 'They Only Come At Night', Slung Low's series of …
Silence is Golden
It's all been a quiet on the blogging front in the last month, and, for this, I apologise. It's because it's been busy busy busy here! I've been working on developing the upcoming shows Beyond the Front Line and They Only Come At Night trilogy with Slung Low, and scoring and sound designing a gorgeous short film …
Finding Unexpected Inspiration
Inspiration, the source of creativity. I would say that mine usually comes from the film or script that I have in front of me, or conversations with a director. These are, at least, the most obvious source. This morning I drove from Sheffield to Manchester for my final day working with Slung Low at the …
Composing Music for Slung Low Theatre
Slung Low makes installation and site-specific theatre. It's anything but conventional, but its primary purpose is 'a good story, well told'. Whenever music will enable us to do this, that's when we use it. Posts about Scoring Slung Low Shows: Scoring the Song: Emergency Story Penguin New Album Release: Emergency Story Penguin Listen to the …
Writing Music for Theatre – Helium
The 'short adventure for one', Helium, has completed its run at the Barbican. 4 stars in The Guardian The show is a theatrical installation, or 'box show', where an audience member travels through a number of specially-constructed rooms featuring digital audio, video and live performance. The audience is invited to follow Bella's imaginary journey through …
First Post
Hi - and welcome to my new blog! My first post comes on one of the last few performance dates of 'Helium' by Slung Low, performing at The Barbican in London to riotous acclaim (4 stars in The Guardian, same in Metro), and the news that I'll be off to Florida in October with the …