holkham sound design

Perspectives

2011-08-20T03:42:00.000-07:00

For why not assosicates. A title sequence and identity for an ITV arts programme.

Lighthouse

2011-06-25T07:02:00.000-07:00

Working with artist Catherine Yass I used lots of muffled and ominous sea sounds to create the soundtrack for her latest film "Lighthouse" which was previewed at the De la Warr Pavilion in june. It was filmed from a boat and helicopter orbiting the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse, five miles out to sea, just visible from the Pavilion. Yass describes her interest in the project:

"I am fascinated by the structure of the lighthouse, balanced precariously on the corner of the platform, which is in turn balanced on its post. The platform looks too heavy for the post, as though it might topple over at any moment. And yet it survives all weathers and tides, standing throughout them with its odd sense of gravity."

An article can be found here

New Demo Tracks

2011-06-23T06:05:00.000-07:00

Dubby step

In the Club

Summer Brass

Electro Crunch

Bombay Sapphire

2011-05-20T07:01:00.000-07:00

I composed this little tune for a Bombay Sapphire advert... very nice but was never used!

Blackberry Playbook

2011-04-10T06:59:00.000-07:00

Music for the official Blackberry Playbook video... Commissioned by why not associates .

Berg

2011-04-04T07:09:00.000-07:00

For Berg. A little bit of sound design for Berg, a design company based up in Glasgow.

Valentines Day Massacre

2011-01-04T07:12:00.000-08:00

My band, Three Beards spent some time in the studio recording "Valentines Day Massacre"

Give it a Go

2010-09-29T07:30:00.000-07:00

Promotional film promoting a new initiative being run by Lancashire Country Council called "Give it a Go". A competition to find the most enterprising people and places in Lancashire. for commissioned by Wash Design.

intro music

outro music

Crystal CG

2010-07-30T23:07:00.000-07:00

A couple of jobs for 3D company Crystal CG. Music for the Russian world cup bid 2018 and a piece for one of their showreels.

Russian world cup bid

Showreel

Rosie and Rivette

2010-07-12T01:38:00.000-07:00

Sound design, edited and mixed a short film by Vito Maraula. A very cool Lynchian, film noir, opera, meditative, thriller!....

WeMake

2010-07-08T01:48:00.000-07:00

Working with Peepshow and photographer Stephen Lenthall. A little stop-motion animation for Axon Publishing.

Dirt

2010-06-29T05:02:00.001-07:00

I spent most of May working on Dirt, a feature length film by up coming director Daniel Fawcett. Really nice film, shot around a small Essex coastal village. Kind of a cross between Korine, Herzog and Jarmusch.... Music by Dead Rat Orchestra.

The Royal School

2010-06-16T06:59:00.000-07:00

An advert for the Royal School Hamstead. Working with Wash Design and Orio.

Garden Stories

2010-06-15T06:28:00.000-07:00

I worked on a guerrilla film about gardening! Fly the on the wall film documenting the characters and stories central to a Cambridge University garden.

Blackberry Bold 9650

2010-04-19T05:26:00.000-07:00

More Blackberry music for why not associates....

Van Marcke / Unicef

2010-03-12T08:45:00.000-08:00

Produced by Peepshow with Adrian Johnson for TBWA Belgium. A lovely little TV commercial following water pipes around the globe - helping to provide clean drinking water for Africa.

Web 2.0

2010-02-12T03:26:00.000-08:00

Animation by Peepshow commissioned by Sennep for the Kantar website.

Repeater

2010-02-09T03:44:00.000-08:00

With a nice scratchy quill, artist Caroline Wright wrote the 10 Commandments for six hours. I linked her pen to loudspeakers broadcasting the sound over the Bury St Edmunds Marketplace.

CBBC

2010-02-05T04:14:00.000-08:00

Promotional film for CBBC online. Commissioned by Fjord animation by Peepshow.

Everything is Possible

2009-11-05T08:13:00.000-08:00

Music for a TV and cinema advert for Teesside High School. After spending a day at a school recording various answers to the question "what do you want to do?...." Peepshow came up with this animation in response to the childrens voices and ambitions. Produced by Wash Design.

Blackberry 9700

2009-10-09T14:09:00.000-07:00

Music for new blackberry promotional video, motion graphics by why not associates.

Creative Knowledge

2009-09-28T14:40:00.000-07:00

Music box music created for promotional video for Checkland Kindleysides.
Animation by Peepshow.

Somewhere

2009-09-01T06:50:00.000-07:00

Working with artist Kirsten Lavers, I created a sound track for a short film documenting the building of Orchard Park, a housing estate in Cambridge.

Blank Canvas Project

2009-08-31T06:07:00.000-07:00

"Charity project entitled Blank Canvas, which will see tents transformed into artworks by leading names in the art and fashion world, including Peter Blake, Rachel Whiteread and Vivienne Westwood." I worked with artist Catherine Yass to create a sound tent playing back the sounds of nocturnal birds. First exhibited at The Big Chill.

Next Stop

2009-08-27T05:07:00.000-07:00

Theme music for French television programme called Next Stop. A travel show with an "off the beaten track" look at cities. Motion graphics by why not associates.

Unilever

2009-08-11T05:47:00.000-07:00

Corporate information film for Unilever. Animation by Peepshow.

Samsung

2009-07-22T04:10:00.000-07:00

Hillbilly music for corporate film. Animation by Peepshow.

JOSEPH

2009-06-09T08:43:00.000-07:00

Sound for a beautiful, odd short film about Joseph a lone musician living in Taos County, New Mexico. Directed by Andy Wilson who filmed it after a chance meeting with Joseph on Route 64.

TEVA

2008-12-07T23:09:00.000-08:00

Information film for asthma inhaler users with funny Mr Benn style music.
Animation by Peepshow.

From WWW to ZZZ

2008-10-31T06:45:00.000-07:00

Music for short film to promote "The Sleep Room" online store. The story of a bear struggling to hibernate. Animation by Peepshow.

Trust

2008-08-12T00:47:00.000-07:00

Created and mixed sound for a new film by Runa Islam. Commissioned as part of the UN celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

FEED THE MACHINE

2008-06-16T12:00:00.000-07:00

Howls Moving Castle-esque sound design for Microsoft promo
Animation by Andrew Rae at Peepshow

MEDIA CITY

2008-06-10T12:00:00.000-07:00

Sound mnemonic for Media City ident and extended edit for animated logo. Commissioned and designed by Wash Design. Animated by Pete Mellor at Peepshow.

CULTURE IS

2008-05-10T12:00:00.000-07:00

Sound mnemonic for Culture Show ident. Animation by Peepshow.

NIKE LASER

2008-04-10T12:00:00.000-07:00

Music for promotional Nike film. Motion graphics by why not associates.

HIGHWIRE

2008-04-01T12:00:00.000-07:00

I created the sound for Highwire a new film by the artist Catherine Yass. A multi-screen film and video installation, High Wire was filmed at the Red Road housing scheme in North Glasgow when French high wire artist Didier Pasquette attempted to walk between three of the high rise tower blocks. The event turned out to be somewhat anti-climatic with high winds leading Pasquette to abandon his walk after several steps out onto the wire and, terrifyingly, retrace his path....

Originally shown at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow it has since be exhibited at the German Gymnasium in London and at the Whitworth in Manchester.

Music Examples

2008-03-17T04:08:00.000-07:00

Here are different examples of music that we produce.

guitar electro

kraftwerkish 1

kraftwerkish 2

electro pop 1

electro pop 2

boards of canada-ish 2

living in essex

dark slow jam

excursions

glockenspiel tune

buggin out

electric relaxation

orchestral beats

keep it rollin

tribal

scenario

jittery music box

turrican II the 90s computer game tribute!

eastern anthem

digi folk

laid back

laid back short

eastern electro

circle dance

plucky

funky 80s

jumpy electronic

budd electronica

surfing tune

tense electro

crunchy electronica

soft breaks

boards of canada-ish

eastern reflection

parisian cafe

SQUARE

2008-03-14T12:00:00.000-07:00

A Flight of the Conchords inspired tune for a corporate film promoting SQUARE, a Brussels conference centre. Motion graphics by why not associates.

GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK

2008-03-05T12:00:00.000-08:00

Corporate ident for Global Entrepreneurship Week. Motion graphics by why not associates.

HOLKHAM MUSIC COMPOSITION

2007-12-17T02:27:00.000-08:00

Blackberry: Music for North American online promotion

Van Marke/Unicef: Music for Belgian television commercial

We Make: Sound design for an online promotion

Russia 2018: Music for a promotional film supporting the Russian world cup bid 2018

The Royal School: Cinema advert for a North London school

Nextstop: Music for a French travel television programme

Unilever: Music for a corporate film

Nike Laser Mesh: Music for an in-store promotional film

Top 10 at 10: Music for an MTV Ident

Catherine Sullivan at Afoundation

2007-12-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

October 2007 I set up the sound and was part of the AV team that installed Catherine Sullivan's installation at Afoundation's Greenland Street, Liverpool. The piece consisted of seven projected films all running in sync. For the sound we used seven parabolic speakers, one for each film.

FSRADIO

2007-08-23T00:02:00.000-07:00

During July/August 2007 I set up an internet radio station at Firstsite Gallery. I built a sound studio and transformed the gallery into a drop-in radio station where participants could record and crate audio material for broadcast, these included radio plays, jingles, spoof radio shows, field recordings. The public could also turn up and take part in the live webcast.

Il Tempo Del Postino 2007

2007-08-19T00:31:00.000-07:00

Commissioned by Manchester International Festival I worked with artist Koo Jeong A to create live Foley for an piece featured in the group show Il Tempo Del Postino which previewed at the Manchester Opera House. Co-curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno the show showcased work from a group of leading visual artists and focused on how art would occupy time in a physical performance space.

LINES AND BEAR

2007-05-30T12:00:00.000-07:00

Sound design for the short film Lines and Bear, a Frantic Film Production.

AERIAL PHONOGRAPHY

2007-04-14T00:06:00.000-07:00

A sound project recording a hot air balloon journey. Flying over Cambridge, I recorded sounds moving up from the ground, creating a sonic map of the journey I was taken on. Funded by Arts Council England and featured as part of The Junction's art and technology festival ENTER_ 2007. More information can be found here.

TOP TEN @ TEN

2007-04-01T05:55:00.000-07:00

Oddball circus music for MTV title sequence. Animation by Wyld Stallyons.

HOME

2007-03-30T05:06:00.000-07:00

Foley, sound editing and mixing for Home, a short film produced and directed by Big Red Button.

JAFFA ORANGE

2006-12-16T02:38:00.000-08:00

Foley, effects and sound design for 30 second commercial
Produced by McCann Eriksson.

Lock

2006-11-19T00:38:00.000-08:00

Photographs: "Lock" Catherine Yass 2006 Gallerie LeLong New York

October 2006 I created and installed a multichannel soundtrack for "Lock" a new film by artist Catherine Yass. The film Projected in two parts on opposite sides of the gallery, with a "front" and "backwards" soundscore. The film was shot at the Three Gorges Dam in China's Yangtze River and the soundtrack was created from field recordings of these giant concrete locks. The film was previewed at Galerie Lelong New York.

Kettles Yard Open 2006

2006-09-14T00:03:00.000-07:00

October 2006 I helped create and install a multichannel installation for Kettles Yard Open. Working again with Kirsten Lavers we installed the soundtrack in the chapel.

The sound is a reading of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an alternative school portrait through sound with Coleridge Community College, Cambridge. The poem is read by all of the school’s pupils and teachers and is underpinned by an atmospheric soundscape composed from recordings made in the school building.

SNOW QUEEN

2005-12-25T05:21:00.000-08:00

Christmas 2005 saw my feature length debut as sound designer for BBC1's animated adaptation
of The Snow Queen. Animated and directed by Intro.

The Hour - Tate Modern

2005-11-19T00:32:00.000-08:00

Photograph: "The Hour" Rosemary Butcher Tate Modern 2005

In November 2005 I worked with why not associates to create and install a six channel soundscore to accompany new work by innovative choreographer Rosemary Butcher. 'The Hour' was created specifically for the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

I have also created a subsequent sound piece to accompany Rosemary Butcher's performance 'Images Every Three Seconds' now touring in Vienna, Munich and Rotterdam.

TV

2005-06-22T03:42:00.000-07:00

BBC WORLD WEDDINGS

BBC CULTURE SHOW

MTV TOP 10@10

CHANNEL 4 SECRETS OF THE DEAD

SLEEPROOM

Radio Taxi

2005-06-15T00:04:00.000-07:00

Photographs: "Radio Taxi" Cambridge 2005

June 2005 I collaborated with Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek of the Taxi gallery to set up and run radio station in the Cambridge area. The broadcast and webcast were delivered from the front room of a semi-detached house (with the aerial on its roof) outside of which an old London black cab is parked in the front garden. The front room acted as a control room with a live microphone in the cab. All was visible to streetside passers-by, any of whom could knock on the door, climb in the cab and be put live on air.
Radio Taxi archive

Follow Me

2004-11-14T00:06:00.000-08:00

Photographs: "Follow Me" Susan Philipsz Maryland Park London 2004

In November 2004 I worked on an audio installation by Susan Philipsz piece called "Follow Me". It was installed on a dark rainy day in Maryland Park, Charton London as part of the Paul Rooney curated show titled Pass The Time of Day at Gasworks Gallery. The piece consisted of four separate sound channels routed to four outdoor speakers mounted high in the treetops.