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Listen to Me Talk About Music, Art and Videogames on the Art of Fury Podcast

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I talked with a group of lovely and fascinating women on the Art of Fury podcast. We discussed all things music for games and interactivity - listen here on Apple Podcasts, or here on Soundcloud. Yshani, Emma, Leila and I had a brilliant chat about our experiences in creating music for these special kinds of media.

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War, Hell, Blood and Chocolate

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So here goes: when I first heard about the show Blood + Chocolate, I didn't want to do it. Now, this isn't a new phenomenon for me. It's just the lizard brain going into overdrive protective mode whenever I'm presented with a project that I can't quite wrap my head around. I just ignore the feeling and accumulate more facts and ideas from the people who know more of them, and eventually, I come around and start looking forward to it.

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Listen to 15 Minutes Live

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The recordings from 15 Minutes Live are now available for free. Back in November 2011, Slung Low and the I Love West Leeds Festival commissioned 6 new short radio plays from writers based in West Yorkshire. The collection of plays were recorded in front of an audience at the Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley with a live band providing the music, arranged, composed and conducted by me and a team of foley artists creating the sound effects.

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Sound Designing Experimental Theatre: Silica

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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”.

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