I wrote the theme tune for this Audible series about Johnny Cash’s prison gig, and did the sound design.
The Lost Disc
This is what has been occupying me, the trombone and a bag of foley FX for the month of October. "A musical detective story, part comedy thriller, part concert experience, performed by a multi-tasking cast of impossible talent" Stewart Lee
Somnai
Great to work with Chris Branch of Brains and Hunch on this show created by dotdot. We wrote and produced the music for the show, an ambitious mix of VR, AR, live performance, projection, cocktails, smells … You name it.
Near the last solitary place
Never have I deliberately recorded so much wind. I was the sound recordist for this 360 shoot in Patagonia. This is best viewed via headset in order to take in the full view (and fall over furniture). Also in the 360 world, I recorded some mating frogs … I was asked to, honest …
In our time machine
So, years ago, in a time of greater leisure, I became intrigued by what I now see has been called the Melvyn Bragg Abrupt Opener – the most magnificent examples of which are to be heard in his Radio 4 programme In Our Time. After discovering that Oliver Burkeman shared this curiosity, I became unhinged enough to start cutting together the top of the show in order to experience the full, cumulative effect of being repeatedly taken back to the year 1493 (etc) at the drop of a hat. Now that In Our Time is about to celebrate a 20th anniversary, and the New Yorker has even picked up on the "abrupt opener", I've decided to share this audio futility.