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 →
Creative Communities
Last November I finished work on a community project in Addlestone, Surrey. I worked with a group of teenagers at Addlestone Youth Centre, exploring all sorts of stuff. Stop frame animation, time lapse, interviews with the older generation, found sound, and ended up with a 25 minute movie. The final work was exhibited at Chertsey Museum in a space designed →
One Day by Stock-pot Productions
A few years ago I stepped in writing music for a short film "One Day" when another composer dropped out after not seeing eye to eye with the director and producer. I had three days as the film was booked in for the final sound post production to be completed at Aquarium. The director (James Barriscale) and producer (Tanya Franks) →
Charlie Gillet World on 3
A few Fridays back, driving back from London, after a meeting with two artists I'm working with and seeing the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy, listening to radio 3 - that's my main listening nowadays, I find everything else does my head in - after 10 in the evening, I came across Charlie Gillet presenting World on 3. →
Opening Party at Colston Hall, Bristol
After a few days of listlessness at the beginning of last week I had to wind myself up to fire on all cylinders for the Friday night opening party of Colston Hall. I think I did pretty well as the cause of the apathy was one of those events that have knocked me sideways in the past, the first time →
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 →
Moving Image Trailer
Managed a quick sound edit for my good friend Will Docherty for a trailer he has made promoting his documentary project Moving Image. I think he as managed to say a lot with mostly images and a couple well chosen soundbites, and it gives a great feel to how the final 30 minute documentary will be. Oh yes, and the cello music →
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.
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 →
Site 09 Open Studios
We are opening up our living room as an art gallery to participate in the Stroud Valley Arts Site 09 festival. We are luring visitors with a bribe of cake and maybe a glass of wine - if you are quick enough. We will be exhibiting some of The Artist's recent work and if I get the chance, I will compose →
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, →
New album now available from Amazon mp3
You can now download my new album from Amazon mp3 for £4.99 or 69p per track. There are 11 tracks a few of which can be previewed on myspace.
Friispray
Just in the middle of some education, and research and development, workshops with the lads from friispray or the jam jar collective as they are collectively known. They've cleverly put together a back projected screen, wii remote, open source software and felt tips/spray cans fitted with infra red LEDs to create virtual graffiti. We've been working in some special needs schools →
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 →
New Album available for download from iTunes
This album is now available for download from iTunes. In the next few weeks it should be available from Amazon, eMusic, Napster etc. A few months ago I sifted through the work I had created over these past five years and found that I had several albums worth. This is the first - not counting the "Bacchic EP" - collection I →
Quartz Composer Madness and Bamboo Flute
In our research time on Mapping Me, after getting all the component software working - Desktop Soundbeam, Ableton Live, MaxMSP, Quartz Composer, Reason - we started to play. This Quartz patch pictured on the left interacts with one soundbeam and live video feed. As you move down the beam particles of translucent green and red squares are emitted. The closer →
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 →
Mapping Me
Starting new project working under Heather Wastie - soundbeam artist and poet - with multimedia installation artist Geoff Broadway. For those of you who may not know, Soundbeam is an ultrasonic device that measures distance continuously and translates this into MIDI. So you can play a piano by waving your arms seemingly pointlessly in the air and much much more. The →
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 →