OFF WEST-END AWARDS FOR BEST PRODUCTION (NOMINATION)
GUARDIAN READERS’ FAVOURITE STAGE SHOWS OF 2023
OLIVIER AWARDS 2024 Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre (NOMINATION)

"Nicola T Chang’s use of sound throughout is subtle but vital to the play’s success; the use of breath to create tension matches the breaths that we did not realise we were holding."
★★★★★ Lost in Theatreland
 
"A tantalising vocal score (sound design by the prolific Nicola T. Chang) characterised by rich, haunting harmonies that, well, swell, conjuring the gently acknowledged ocean-side location of the play’s world. The score is not just melodic though. A sigh or gasp on stage is sometimes echoed by the other hidden voices, creating an unsettling surround-sound effect. You’ll find yourself glancing over your shoulder to see where it came from, and wondering how it sounded like it was right in your ear."
★★★★ Evening Standard

"[The] swift transitions [are] set to really beautiful Imogen Heap-esque choral creations by Nicola T Chang."
★★★★ The Stage
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"Great credit too, to composer Nicola T. Chang for a quite extraordinary, beautiful, haunting sound design incorporating taped music with live harmonies from the cast. A weird, otherworldly sound that gives context to the strangeness of the story."
★★★★ The Reviews Hub

"Ghostly live music composed by Nicola T Chang links scenes"
★★★★ The Guardian

"[A] soothing musical sound enhanced the onstage performance and moved the action along in a rather ethereal way"
★★★★ Mark Aspen

"A thoroughly convincing cast perform in an ambience greatly enhanced by composer Nicola T Chang’s music."
★★★★ The Arts Desk​

"The piece is accompanied by a beautiful vocal score. Again, lively at the beginning, accompanying a fun night out scene, but increasingly more haunting. Characters offstage echo the action on stage with gasps or repeated words and the music becomes more and more melancholy... wonderful performances and an enchanting vocal score, creating a wonderful exploration of the human condition of love."
★★★★ All That Dazzles

"Composer and co-musical director Nicola T. Chang has created, with Sinéad Rodger, a singular score of songs and motifs that haunt the edges and skies of this work. Joyous dance and recorded voices of the actors themselves (their stage selves echoing on occasion) underscore optimism, envisioning a utopia where women will legally marry."
Fringe Review

“Lighting and sound [are] extraordinarily well integrated  […] to an extent not always apparent in many productions. Chang, in particular, works wonders with an eerie and evocative soundscape some of which is hauntingly contributed to by the cast.”
2ndfrombottom

"Scenes chop in and out of the past and the present with Nicola T Chang’s specially composed music in between."
TheatreVibe

The Swell

Film/Trailer Soundtracks

Audio Showreel (updated December 2024)

Film Scoring Demo Reel

Purple Skies ("Happens" Piano Cover) from New Diorama 2021

Prologue (feat. Tawanda Mapanda)

Epilogue "Can't Get Close" Rework (feat Tawanda Mapanda)

Purple Skies "Happens" Piano Cover Start

Purple Skies "Happens" Piano Cover End

Prologue ("And This is For Black Boys") feat. Tawanda Mapanda

Epilogue Part 1 ("I Began to Dream") feat. Tawanda Mapanda

Jet's Monologue ("Purple Skies")

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (APOLLO THEATRE)

Epilogue Part 2 ("You've Got to Be Living") feat. Tawanda Mapanda

Transition 7  Geraniums

Transition 5  She's Like A Puppy

Transition 4  Getting To Know You

Transition 3  Yoga

Transition 2  Flo's Arrival

Opening  The Swell

Finale

Demos for "The Ballad of Hattie and James" by Samuel Adamson

LEEDS 2023 - Murmuration

2.4-2.5v10_071222

2.2-2.3v11b_full_051222

2.3-2.4v13_full_051222

1.4-1.5v16_full_051222

Coda

Precogs

Journey To Precrime HQ

Fleming Car Chase

Back To Islington

Minority Report

Soundtrack (with added sound effects) to accompany the 10-minute short film New Message by Matt Mrozek (final film project, Middlesex University).

The film has successfully screened at the BFI and has been nominated for the British Urban Film Festival.

View the film here: https://vimeo.com/170121620

New Message: Full Soundtrack (Composition, score to picture)

Text tone created as sound effect for the short film New Message, based on an iPhone text tone.

New Message: Sound Effect - Text Tone (Sound Design)

(Demo) A short melodic segment to accompany the logo fly-out of Saudi Airlines for their inflight entertainment system.

Saudi Airlines Titles Flyout Demo (Composition)

Trailer music for New Message, incorporating musical themes from the original short film as well as sound design.

New Message: Trailer Music (Trailer Composition, score to picture)

View trailer here: https://youtu.be/0C2k14wm2wU

YADA - Trailer Soundtrack

Soundtrack for presentation of Zhuhai Hufa Arts Centre design scheme. A synthesis of Fado (guitar-based) and Chinese instruments to align with the Portuguese influences of the design.

Credit: Porto Largo by Alexandre Bateiras, Canções da Lua Nova, Free Music Archive (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alexandre_Bateiras/Canes_da_Lua_Nova/01-Porto_Largo)

Zhuhai Huafa Arts Centre 珠海華發藝術館

The Perfect Dinner (feat. Sally Law)

Cue 1 - Opening

Hole

Game Show

Fight Night

Little Baby Jesus

Rain - Orchestral Version (Love Scene)

Lion Dance

Opening Movement Sequence

Overwrite

Track 2 Electronic

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