Piano Migrations II at Concrete and Glass Festival
Piano Migration II: Video responsive instrument.Curated by Lumin, as part of the Concrete and Glass Festival, The inside of an old upright piano, rescued from destruction, is transformed into a light activated instrument. Video projections move across the surface of the piano strings, triggering small machines to twitch and flutter causing the strings to resonate. For one night, this installation becomes →
Beauty and Brains
Just finished working on an audio edit on a documentary feature Beauty and Brains. This has kept me occupied for the past two weeks as today was my deadline to hand over the audio mix. The film documents the Blue Diamond Society's 2008 Beauty and Brains talent contest that promotes awareness and rights for Nepal's third gender community. The words of →
Venus In Transit
A few weeks ago me and two other artists (Jan-Willem van den Bosch and Caroline Collinge) applied for a Museumaker art residency at Orleans House in Twickenham, London. We got to the last three with our proposal and we made this short film to give a flavour of how we work in terms of connecting ideas, interweaving fiction and fact →
Memory Machine
A journey through moving image and sound. A series of thoughts and stories from the older generation filtered through the eyes and ears of young people. Informal interviews combined with animation, sound and film exploring the townscape of Addlestone. This has not intended to be either historical, or a reminiscence. The aim throughout has been to allow people to be themselves →
High Life
In tech week for a play at the studio space at Hampstead Theatre. This is a new play by Lizzy Dijeh. The play revolves around Nigerian familiy, living in East London, coming to terms with the death of their daughter. It is a fantastically written and structured play and deals with grief with a lot of insight and sensitivity. I hope →
Pain
I am at an end with Schtanhaus and Headlong Theatre's production of The Winters Tale. Sunday morning I felt proud of the production, feeling proud of my contribution to my first professional Shakespeare production, now I want nothing to do with it. There have been three previews so far and press night is tomorrow and I feel the heart has been →
Lots of Stuff after a Short Break
Managed to squeeze in a trip to the Cornish Coast for a couple of weeks amidst lots of busyness. I found my creativity flagging and was on the point of doing my work like an automaton. That has to be a sign to stop and take stock. And there is know better way than swimming in a beautiful place. Finished off →
Music From Helen
When I start work on a production I find it best to start with making a creative reaction to the material. A piece music, that I might not necessarily use, that gives me a sonic landscape from which to draw elements. This helps the sound design to have a sense of cohesiveness, so that all parts reflect the whole in →
Lucky Dip Editors’ Choice
Our film is now on the Editors' Choice page.
Virgin Media Shorts
Lucky Dip is now on the featured list. So if you find this page please find the film and have a look. A quirky little number that manages to tell the tale of a grumpy angler disturbed by a couple on an even stranger fishing expedition, without any words. The film is embedded in an earlier post or you can got to Virgin →
Helen
Working again with Tamsin Shasha of Actors of Dionysus on another aerial piece of theatre this time based upon stories and myths around Helen of Troy. Other collaborators incude director - Jan-Willem van den Bosch, designer - Caroline Collinge, choreographer - Helen Parlour, a very exciting team with lots of ideas. We are in the research and development stage and →
Lucky Dip
It seems that a lot of people are becoming interested in this film. Must be something in the air over Wild Swimming. It is being entered for the Virgin Shorts competition and you can watch it here. This film has caused more technical difficulties than the last the same team - of which I am a part - made, even though →
Lucky Dip
Following up our success with Sci Fi London 48 hour film challenge we going for another short film prize but this time the material is very different. Wild swimming, fishing and mermaids. We shot footage down in Constable country, very close to the famous 'Haywain'. Draft edit done. musical sketches done. This evening I'll start weaving together the sound design and →
All The Little Things We Crushed
Starting work on sound design and original music for "All The Little Things We Crushed" at the Almeida Theatre. A response to the main show "When The Rain Stops Falling", this is written for a young audience. The script by Joel Horwood, travels back and forth in time bringing together different threads to a story set in an imaginary but →
Iya Ile Reviews
My work has finished on the play after a trying week with a new version show control software SFX (6.1.09). It seemed stable enough while left to run the show, but when editing was prone to crashes, freezes and unpredictable behaviour such as volume cues losing track of the sound cues to which they refer and in one case pasting →
Iya Ile Trailer
Misfit films have made a trailer for Iya Ile for promotional purposes. You can catch it here, to get a flavour of the up coming production at Soho Theatre. We just about to enter our 'tech' week and it is looking good. Sat in on a run of the play yesterday afternoon and the company is doing a great job, can't →
It’s a Tracker. No.1 at Sci Fi London 48 hour Film Challenge
We won! A few days ago I was informed we had won a prize, that we were in the top three. That was very exciting. But as the director Marc Caro anounced the winners of the joint second prize I could not quite believe that we had been ommited and that meant we had won. It must be someone else I →
We’ve made it to the short list
Out of 77 teams 55 completed the 48 hour film challenge. We were one of them and our film Tracker has made it on to the short list of 10 films. So that feels good and a big pat on the back for a lot of hard work from the people on our team.
Iya-Ile
Just been doing initial forays into sound design for Oladipo Agboluaje's new play Iya-Ile over the last couple of weeks. Tomorrow I will meet the rest of the creative team and actors at Out of Joint in North London. Exciting to be working with Femi Elufowoju, jr again. He is precise, knows what he wants and choreographs action to music, →
Tracker
Just recovering from the journey into the realms of sleep deprivation without chemical aids but keeping it together enough to handle a complex creative job. I was part of a team 'The Lost Souls" that entered the Sci Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge. We were given a title, a prop and and an excerpt of dialogue that we had →
Down Among The Dead
Just finished a week of R&D with Conspirators' Kitchen developing a script by Nirjay Mahindru, "Down Among The Dead Men" about Uday Hussein's fiday or body double, Latif Yahia. We've been funded by The Actors' Centre (Tristran Bates Theatre) as art of Ignition Stage 2. In some sense the play is a farce. Nirjay's humour is both irreverent and uncomfortably obscene →
Recurring
This morning I'm content, as I have started the beginning of the end of my sound work on a sci- fi horror feature Recurring. I was handed the film just under two years ago. A lot of tidying, rerecording of dialogues, adding foley as a lot of it had to be removed. When the film was shot there was heavy →
Why I Don’t Hate White People
My work on Lemn Sissay's "Why I Don't Hate People" is now over. To begin with I was a little lost and not sure which direction to take my sound design and composition. The text goes at one hell of a pace and it was important that my work did not get in the way. Anyway I am pleased with →