The Promise and The Curse

A dance performed for the Summer Solstice

The Lady of the Lake - Solstice

A couple of pieces I wrote for a double bill of Tennessee Williams' plays as part of Theatre by the Lake's 2015 season.  Mr Paradise was the first half, followed by Suddenly Last Summer.

Mister Paradise

A sequence of sound from one scene in Suddenly Last Summer, the play is set in a jungle garden and I made heavy use of the sounds of the environment to support the action.  

At the beginning of the sound here Catherine begins to tell the doctor about a harrowing experience from her past, he then gives her an injection to calm her down.  From this point everything very slowly descends into a surreal stillness as things get very strange for Catherine.  At the end they are interrupted and normality seems to re establish for the audience.  The whole sequence is much slower with the action on stage, and very subtle.

This is from the production at Theatre by the Lake for their 2015 season.

Suddenly Last Summer - Injection

Some of the music and sounds I created for Theatre by the Lake's production of Elektra, part of their summer season 2016.  Directed by Mary Papadima.  More info on their website.
http://theatrebythelake.com/

Elektra & Orestes Dance

Furies From Hell - Sound Design

Elektra Entrance

Apollo Answered - Sound Design

The Long Road

Changes in Concrete

A sound design I created for a piece by Ben Mellor (www.benemellor.net).  All sound is edited from the recording of us smashing the piano, as discussed in the piece.  It was recorded on a zoom at the time, I also took some recordings of parts of the piano frame and strings while I had the chance.  I've edited from all this to create this piece.

How To Smash A Piano

Good Hope

Dan is a composer/sound designer from Manchester UK.  Working in theatre sound design and composition, mixing and studio production.

His music often has a haunting beauty and elegance.  He is rarely without a recording device or microphone likes to work with found sounds in his music.  Many tracks will start from an idea that didn't make it into a job he was working on, but which captured his imagination, these ideas then get taken on and transformed into some of tracks you hear here.

Music composed professionally could be an a wide range of styles, and are composed to meet the specific productions needs and feel.

When not writing music his other favourite pastime is writing about himself in the third person

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