I'm in the process of sound designing a new piece of experimental theatre: Silica. It's a highly visual theatre installation that merges live performance, composed sound, sculpture and film. The piece explores erosion, both of landscape and of the mind, presenting shifting, beautifully surreal and blurred perceptions of reality. It uses the language of landscapes to discuss disappearance and the ephemerality of moments within our lives and looks at memory not as a link to the past but the construction of a present “reality”.
Note: 'Mr Bojagi' has now finished its short but very successful run on Daily Motion but you can still scroll down to watch me talk about the process of scoring the film and watch some other behind-the-scenes interviews with Brian and the rest of the cast and crew here. Brian Blessed stars in the fabulous, …
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Had to share this blog post about creativity and the myths that surround it: Myths about Creativity | Tickled By Life, by Shalu Wasu. Go have a read... then come back here if you like. 🙂 I particularly enjoyed reading his attitudes about the application of creativity to all aspects of life, not just so-called …
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If you been reading my posts for the last week or so, then you'll have noticed that I've recently been spending my days writing science fiction-related music. Also, a lot of the search engine terms used that send traffic here to my blog are along the lines of 'how to write film music', so here's …
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Beyond The Front Line is a new show by
Slunglow, currently in development and due to play at the Lowry, Manchester in October. Below is the new trailer...
'THE END IS NIGEL' is an online offbeat comedy-drama about a possible impending apocalypse...
This project was originally commissioned by SCREEN YORKSHIRE and BLINK to be a two-minute film for mobile phones, but [became] a little high-concept but low-budget online world full of webcomics, blogs and dummy websites, following saxophone-wielding deities, shady corporations and facing life after university as Verity tries to find out what happened to Nigel.
This is what I've discovered specifically for mixing sound acceptibly for delivery as audio online via website.
Composing on a computer sequencer with software/outboard synthesizers and samples is quite a bit different to composing for real instruments. There's no substitute for an orchestra when that's the sound you want. However, if you think of your kit as something other than an orchestra-in-a-box, and write instead to its strengths, you might not ever …
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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 …
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