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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
London’s Languages
Four films have been made by Digital Fluid in conjunction with Old Vic New Voices. The scripts for these have been drawn from workshops with schools based around themes of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. I have been commissioned by Digital Fluid for original music for a short film as well as over seeing recording and mastering the audio of the three →
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, →