BBC Electric Proms

March 29, 2012
sound design, trailer
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Luc Janin from Annex films directed this amazing piece of stop frame poster magic.  It was a trailer for a series of concerts run at the Roundhouse in London called the ‘BBC Electric Proms’.

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One of the concepts behind the Electric Proms series was that bands, choirs and orchestras that didn’t usually perform together were being amalgamated for the concerts.  I tried to replicate this by mashing the music together within the sound design to create mixes that were out of the ordinary, but still worked… you be the judge!

What’s Fufu

March 29, 2012
music, short film
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What’s Fufu was conceived by Bold Creative – a great digital agency working with mainly youth projects.  It was part of a series of ‘Three Minute Wonder’ films on Channel 4 a couple of years ago.

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I initially wrote the music using mainly programmed instruments in Logic and wanted to add a bit more life to it, so I re-recorded the cello parts with Oliver Coates, a talented man indeed… he added a great deal, and some interesting scrapes around the shadow tugging bit.

Coca Cola – Burn

March 29, 2012
commercial, sound design
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The sound design on this advert needed lots of crunch and so I employed a range of different distortion effects to various flame burst and burning sound effects, to help the tearing effect you see in the visuals:

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To try and avoid using predictable whoosh sound effects I used vocals and burning noises to compliment the camera moves, and altered the pitch to certain elements to create a kind of doppler as the camera passes at certain points.

This was directed by Saam Farahmand, big props.

Our Friend Earth

March 29, 2012
music, short film, sound design
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I wrote the music and edited and mixed the sound effects too for this gorgeous animation directed by Claire Norowzian and Jonny Mazur.  It was one of three animations created by Nandita Jain for Nick Junior to form part of their environment awareness campaign.

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I love the texture of this film, I think the animator used lots of textiles in it… anyway for my part I tried to pitch lots of the sound effects to be harmonious with my music – see if you can hear the tuneful squawking just before the monkeys in the trees!

Liar

March 29, 2012
short film, sound design
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I did the sound design and mix on this great short film directed by China Moo-Young.  It was based around a poem by novelist and poet Lucy English. It has been awarded at the NPA shorts and screened at Cannes, Hamburg and Raindance amongst others.  Here’s a section from the film:

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The Magic Greenhouse

March 29, 2012
music, sound design
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Adam from Studio NX commissioned me to write the music for this trailer/pilot for an animation they made:

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I edited the sound effects and mixed it too, while Adam recorded the kids dialogue on his handheld recorder at a school.  In an ideal scenario we would have re-recorded some of the dialogue put as it was a pitch this wasn’t an option.

Doziz

March 29, 2012
music
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I wrote this track for my good friend Chris Ullens back in 2007 I think… I was really happy with it and so was Chris, however the client in Chile ended up going with a cheesy hip hop track. I wasn’t too worried – it was good fun to make:

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It was around the time I got Reaktor (Native Instruments) so the Vectory plugin was used on the beats, along with a bit of granular stuff and some noise from my trusty Roland SH-101!