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 →
More Reviews for Iya Ile at Soho Theatre
Time Out Sunday Times Financial Times Afridiziak The Stage And not to leave out the negative, taking the rough with the smooth Evening Standard
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 →
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, →
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 →
A Different Landscape of Reactions
Time to unburden the thoughts that have been keeping me from my sleep, forcing me to leave the warm cocoon of the duvet and pace about the living room for the last few hours. Several sources of thoughts have collided and sparked a furious debate within myself; reviews written in UK newspapers about Lemn Sissay's one man show at the Hammersmith →
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 →
Why I Don’t Hate White People
I'll be working as Sound Designer on Lemn Sissay's new show Why I Don't Hate White People directed by John E McGrath. This will be the sixth production I have worked on with the excellent Designer Rachana Jadhav. We will be in rehearsals through January, opening on the 22nd and finishing on the 14th February. Contact the Hammersmith Lyric for →
Albums downloadable from Amazon.co.uk
These two albums have been available from iTunes for almost a year. They are now available from Amazon.co.uk as electronic downloads.Amonism @Mass is a condensed version of a soundscape for an installation collaboration with visual artist Kieran Crowder that took place in the year 2000 at Mass nightclub in Brixton, London, combining the sculptural three dimensional painting of Kieran Crowder →
Death Of A Brother
Stroud Theatre Company are touring When The Lights Went Out written by Bristol based writer Mike Akers. I have been Musical Director and Composer on the production. The play is set in rural Gloucestershire around the time of the second world war, and focuses on the life of a young woman and her family. Apart from using music from the time, →
The Room Of Potential
Welcome to The Room Of Potential.The artistic home of a group of related art projects initiated by Simon McCorry. Creative Cabin, Amonism, Pyroscopic, The Memory Machine, Topical Fruit Records amongst others. I've been wanting a more informal web presence than that of Creative Cabin but something a little more flexible than a Myspace for some time. So I've opted for what →