Sound Artist and Composer for Contemporary Dance
Open Doors is a captivating and meditative audio guided experience, with original music, writing and sound design by Dougie Evans. The walk uses spatial audio sounds to transport you through a fictional and real journey of Jenny Lind park in Norwich. So bring your headphones and step through open doors into your imagination. It's part…
Room tones are the sound of silence. I've borrowed the term 'roomtone' from the film industry, where regular practice is to record the stillness of a room or location after each shoot. That way, when various takes of are edited together, they can be glued into one continuous scene by a consistent audio background. Every environment has a…
I had an amazing time performing at the New Baltic Dance Festival last week in Vilnius, Lithuania. It's a beautiful, and green capital city, and i really enjoyed my stayed there. The festival was really well organised, and it was great to perform to such a great audience. It was an honour for me to play…
It's great to be back in the studio this week with my close collaborator, Jerrel Jackson, researching his new piece Letters from Birmingham. I have a long history of successful collaborations with Jerrel, and it feels fantastic to be working together again after a few years apart. Letters from Birmingham is a unique contemporary dance…
Military Helicopters, distorted Electronica, and Cello can only mean one thing... Yep, Yael Flexer's back on tour, and with it goes my international collaboration with Isreali Cellist and Composer Karni Postel. The soundtrack is a massive array of sound, building all the way from quiet melancholic drones to a huge rumbling of twenty helicopters overhead.…
Spent a highly productive and entertaining week in Eastleigh with Commotion Dance. Our last time together was one of my highlights from 2011, and its fantastic to be back in a studio with them. Here's an exclusive preview picture of their new costumes.
My collaboration with contemporary dance choreographer Jerrel Jackson, has continued with my scoring of his fantastic dance film '021203'. The screen dance was produced, shot, and edited by Wigglyline Productions in June, and I'm really excited to be able to finally share it with you.
After an electric week in Eastleigh, the soundtrack to Commotion Dance's new piece has been finished. It's always fun composing for a new company, and even more so when the company develop contemporary dance pieces for young audiences. 'Ready Or Not' takes a peek at a world of hide and seek. With dancing, music and…