This is a Berger and Wyse sequence for the Guardian, for use in their videogame reviews etc. We devised it together, then Joe went off to draw and I got clattering away in the studio. The idea was to cast the "g" in a few iconic games and write a soundtrack that goes from 8-bits to the full orchestral monty. Memories of a time when a dose of Defender cost you 10p – and your thumbs.
Hooked up with the nice people at Hoxton Redsox recently, and did the sound effects and music for a series of animations they created for Lords on the rules of cricket – voiced by Stephen Fry. I'm surprised the LBW one wasn't a two-hour feature.
We've just completed work on a fantastic project for Lords & Marylebone Cricket Club. Redsox designed, animated and produced a series of films explaining five of the more complicated 'Laws of Cricket'. Our keen cricketer, Tommy, is schooled in the finer points of each Law by Stephen Fry with the aid of an animated blackboard. The films were commissioned to appeal to a wide range of cricket followers, with Urdu and Hindi versions also available at the Lords website.
A small taster of the sights and sounds of Silver Banks, in the Dominican Republic, from a trip I was lucky to take part in with TBA21, made possible by Francesca von Habsburg. On board the boat was a combination of film-makers, sound recordists and scientists, collaborating on a range of projects, from collecting data on the whales and coral reefs, underwater photography, documentary making and recording the deep blue sounds of humpbacks and coral life for future artworks by Jana Winderen and Chris Watson. Quite a melting pot, and there's more about the TBA21-Academy here. Below is sample of the kind of whalesongs we recorded, some of which continue for 40 minutes or more.
A thwat from the past – back from the days of doing The Pitchers comic strip for the Guardian. It came to mind because I've been doing a bit of foley work recently, for a couple of ads and interactives, and it galvanised me to share a clip from the BFI/Touch collacboration I worked on, Fairy Tales. Actually, no chickens were harmed in the making of this, but a saw did get abused slightly.
Japon from Pascal Wyse on Vimeo.
Another of the Young Vic/Guardian films
