A compilation of extracted movements from The Rime, a durational sound art installation produced and created by sound artist Matthew Tuckey.

Featuring field recordings and soundscape composition by Matthew Tuckey.
Orchestral and choral core composed by Katie Doherty, orchestrated and conducted by Alastair Lord, with choir lead by Sarah Gray. Performed by the Northumberland Orchestral Society and Amble Harbour Lights Community Choir. 'The Deep - Deeper' was an improvised performance by the ensemble. All orchestral and choral elements recorded at Jesmond URC in September 2022.

Photograph by Nat Wilkins.

This project was made possible by funding from Arts Council England and Northumberland County Council.

The Rime In Binaural - Abridged Extracts

Sound Design for Theatre Portfolio

These example cues are taken from the final moments of the play that lead to it's dramatic conclusion. This track contains extracts and remixes of an original theme tune composed by Roma Yagnik.

Reviewed by the British Theatre Guide as being "a beautifully scored and impeccably timed soundtrack (composer Roma Yagnik and sound designer Matthew Tuckey) adds so much, almost subliminally, to the piece."

Written by David Raynor, Directed by Ali Pritchard

Trolley Boy Example Cues

Fed Up - a commission from Newcastle University's Oral History Unit and Collective to create a piece of Sound Art in response to their interviews with volunteers and clients at the West End Foodbank. 

The piece was created by blending my own ambient location recordings at the foodbank, with the recorded interviews of foodbank clients and staff made by the oral history researchers.

This progressive, harsh and often confusing soundscape is my personal response to visiting the foodbank and hearing the stories of its clients and staff.

Fed Up - Full Length

These are example cues taken from throughout the performance, in order to give an impression of the sonic world of the play.

The script regularly references punk music from the '80s and '90s, and so the entire sound design is created from recorded vinyl tracks referenced onstage. Although they are manipulated and abstracted throughout, they create a holistic sonic register. There are a few exceptions however, most notably the recording of a stream at the end of the performance - a refreshing change of pace from the punk tracks!

Directed by Selma Dimitrijevic

joey Example Cues

Huw Evans | 05/09/60 - 27/03/19 | Poet and Writer

This episode contains a Sound Portrait of Huw Evans and explains how Huw has inspired this project.

The poem 'Eggs' is copyright of the Huw Evans estate.

Huw's voice, likeness, name and poetry are used with the kind permission and support of the Evans Family, to whom I am very grateful.

patreon.com/matthewtuckey

The Sound Portrait Podcast #1 | Huw Evans

Peaking through an open window, a distant rumble, the steady downpour, the warmth indoors, the elements at bay.

These tracks are edited to compress 30 minutes of audio into less then 10 minutes. The recordings are largely unprocessed and are an initial 'test drive' of the new microphones.

The microphones were purchased with a bursary from Sputnik - an arts patronage scheme that supports artists who are Christians to create secular art.

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Sheep ambience recorded as part of my sound design for 'Wolf' a winter show by Kitchen Zoo made in association with Northern Stage.

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Gentle murmur under the early morning breeze becomes a steadily rising crescendo of calls. Underscored by a distant siren, A1 traffic ebbs and flows and a single aircraft passes overhead, painting an ambient soundscape revealing a genuine sense of time and place.

An extract from the dawn chorus recorded in my garden in Gosforth at 04:40hrs on 2nd May 2020.

Matthew Tuckey

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