Can Sam Dance (2013)

Seething, brewing, undulating. Boundlessly exploring restraint and undermining excess.

Dermatillomania (2017)

A track based on the borrowing of an Overwater bass guitar from a friend, whilst he patiently taught me about weather patterns and cloud-navigating the skies in an engineless aircraft. Fiddling and twiddling with the sonic expanse of a bass instrument, turning bass into melody and melody into bass, screaming into the skies overhead, plunging into the depths far below.

Life In Sync (2018)

Wintermarch (2014)

This is a very condensed version of a radio play, finished in Summer 2012, for which I completed all dialogue editing, Foley work, sound design, spatialisation, mixing and mastering. I've collated, condensed and edited together all the best bits of Foley and sound design from the three-hour production into a 15-minute track.

Citizens Advice - Condensed Showreel Edit

A few years ago, I discovered this beautiful "a capella" or "a moschea" piece of Imamic singing of verses from the Qur'an (apparently Surat Ţāhā, 20:71 - 20:82). I recently dug it up and decided to try using it as a basis for a composition. This is by no means an attempt to improve or add interest to the existing piece, as it requires nothing more, but just a self indulgent exploration, using the piece as direct harmonic/melodic/textural inspiration and augmenting these ideas from the already existing material.

The recording of the Imamic chanting is attributed to Freesound user "ejaz215" under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Imamic Augmentations 1 (2015)

Another track using the Imamic chant as a basis, using it as a beginning for musical exploration. Not improving on the beauty of the orginal chant, merely exploring the possibilities it presents, and feeding the explored pathways back to play with their originator.

Imamic Augmentations 2 (2016)

A piece based purely on sampled found sounds. These include sheep, granulated into long synthetic-sounding drones, glass bowls, water sloshing around in a wok etc.

The 12 chimes at the end mark midnight.

Vor Mitternacht (2009)

In this piece I thought to explore possibilities of sound derrived from using just a very limited number of original sound samples. I planned this as a challenge, as I had discovered other pieces by composers of Musique Concrète, and they manage to achieve a great deal of variation and texture. I believe that through strict limitation we may discover things which would otherwise be overlooked, and perhaps by limiting ourselves, we are forced to exaustively explore an idea, which we would otherwise overlook.

The very nature of the processed and manipulated sounds brought images into my mind of some kind of haunted industrial post-apocalyptic nightmare, but, having played the piece to other people, I have heard very different interpretations depending on a number of different psychological factors. One sample used was that of a human voice saying ‘errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr’ and I found this particularly effective in creating a haunting atmosphere, perhaps because it was originally a human voice, but through processing and manipulation has become disembodied and otherworldly. I was originally going to include spoken parts which told some kind of dark, twisted story, but having listened to the variety of different interpretations of the piece, I decided it would be a shame to impose on the listener restrictions to their own imaginations. When planning the structure of the piece, I wanted to create slow crescendos of increasing discomfort, which would give the impression of a darkening dissension/ascension into nightmare. Overall, I wanted to create a piece of haunting beauty, which used everyday samples and transformed them into otherworldly entities with a nevertheless worldly origin.

Post Apocalyptic Haunting (2007)

OrgTech (2012)

Atmospheric Minimalist Industrial work in progress.

Dark Simplistic (2010)

Sound Designer and Audio Producer currently based in West Yorkshire, England. Always looking for new sound design projects and collaborations!

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