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.
I've started the score for the next instalment of Slung Low's Flood this week. 'To The Sea' is part 3 of the year-long project for Hull City of Culture. Flood: To The Sea will be broadcast on BBC2 on Saturday, 12th August at 9pm. It's live theatre, and the action takes place on and in the …
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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.
It's been a busy year. It's flown by. I've scored...
Well, sort of on the home stretch. On one particular project - Converging Paths. The final instalment, the final show - Story Book - is this Saturday, 28th July. It's been a long time coming. Our first instalment, Darkness at the Sun Court, was back at the beginning of the year in February but the work …
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By popular request, here are a few samples of the music from Converging Paths.
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.
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”.
I love soundifying Slung Low's promos. They're so flippin' exciting! 🙂 The hit sell-out show is on tour... Sold out at the Barbican in October, They Only Come At Night: Visions is moving to the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, next week (23-28th November, 2009). So if you didn't get your ticket before they all sold …
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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 …
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