Blackberry Q10

I was commissioned by why not associates to create the music and sound design for a series of web adverts for the new Blackberry Q10. The theme of the advert was formula one. I spent a day at the Mercedes racing team's HQ capturing sounds from their racing cars. Armed with microphones, a selection of beaters and a violin bow I began work hitting and bowing different racing cars collecting as many percussive and sustained tones as I could. I then took these into the studio and created a composition using these sounds.

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Jane and Louise Wilson: Unreal Island

I spent a few wet and windy days at Orford Ness working with artists Jane and Louise Wilson helping them set up a series of installations. Oxford Ness is an small island (or spit) of the coast of Suffolk and for most of the 20th century it was used as testing site for top secret military experiments. It is now a nature reserve managed by the national trust.

BFi Sight and Sound

To celebrate Sight and Sounds 80th birthday and the unveiling of a new digital archive I was commissioned to create a piece of music for this cinema advert. I had used recordings from the BFi's own projector collection. A really lovely project put together by why not associates. 
 

Design Council Living Well with Dementia

The Design Council in partnership with the Department of Health has funded and supported the development of five innovative new design solutions to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia. I worked on a series of short films with why not associates introducing these design solutions. I edited, mixed and for one film had to create Foley for a dog.

Mazda CX5

Over the past few months I have been working with advertising agency Imagination creating sound design for various Mazda CX5 launch events. Including an augmented reality film with the car navigating its way through shards of ice, breaking through a wall and the sound design for it's "head up display".  I also worked on the sound design for an in-car sound track that would be triggered by GPS signals as the car drove around a race track.

Yoda Vodafone

Part of the Vodaphone Yoda advertisement campaign I recorded the location sound, editied and provided the mix for a "The Office" style short film introducing Yoda as the new member on the Vodafone team. The film was commissioned by RKCRYR.

VSS Shopping Channel

I edited and mixed sound for the artist Sue Hewlett for Duckie’s Copyright Christmas show, based around the fictitious VSS Shopping Channel.

Perspectives

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

Lighthouse

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

Blackberry Playbook

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

Berg

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

Rosie and Rivette

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

WeMake

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

Dirt

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.

Garden Stories

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.

Somewhere

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.

FEED THE MACHINE

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

MEDIA CITY

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

Sound mnemonic for Culture Show ident. Animation by Peepshow.