A complex and comprehensive sound design/composition for whole production. The play, which was conceived during R and D sessions throughout 2007, evolved from improvisations by the sound artists, a cast of actors, puppeteers, lighting and set designers and is directed by renowned theatre director Sue Buckmaster. Opened at the Unicorn Theatre, Tooley St. London February 9th 2008.
BME (British Music Experience).
Commission for new museum of British rock and pop music, opening spring 2009, to be situated at The O2 Centre London. Work undertaken includes:
Soundscape for the central 'HUB' of the Museum space in the form
of an audio palimpsest of found sound from the 60 year history
of British popular music and culture. Utilizing bespoke generative
software developed by Clay Interactive and incorporating source
gleaned from reel to reel tape, audio cassette and other obsolescent
media, the composition comprises ever changing, layers of sound
circulating around and into the museum space;
Curation and authorship of museum interactive exhibit, 'Hey DJ'
which charts the 50 Records that tell the story of British Dance
Music.
Voiceover (Sally Rodgers) for the audio guide to over 200 artefacts displayed
in cabinets around the museum.
Miraikan Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Sound design for three room exhibition in collaboration with
Clay Interactive and architechts, Land Design. Music and gallery
enabling sound for each of the three rooms, describing themes
such as The Genome, Robotic Surgery, and Drug Research. Works
included overall soundtrack and musical pieces for specific interactive
exhibits such as 'Melody Man' which comprises two corresponding
and harmonising sets of 101 note melodies, illustrating rogue
DNA in the human body.
Tonkin Liu
Commission by acclaimed architects TonkinLiu to create audio
document/sound design for specially commissioned films by director
Zsolt Sandor of various TonkinLiu designed exhibitions, sculpture
and outdoor structures.
China Design Now Exhibition - The V & A, London
The Fresh Flower Pavillion - Architecture Expo 2008, various locations, London.
OST - 'Jenny Bel'Air' Heroic Films, France
Commission to compose works for the original soundtrack of the
film, 'Jenny Bel'Air' by director Regine Ababdia; a documentary
portrait of legendary Parisien transsexual, Jenny Bel'Air comprising
prepared piano composition for theme tune and brooding atmospherics.
Sound design for the exhibition, involving the creation of a
forty five minute soundwork in three movements exploring the exhibition's
theme of possible futures relating to innovative technology, bio
- art, fashion and robotics. Commission also included twenty four
individual and complementary stings for DVDs playing throughout
the exhibition space.
