Sample library Producer | Composer

Here are two promotional videos produced by Screen Media Lab (SML) for Birmingham City University (BCU). SML is a purpose built centre for enterprise and innovation in screen media and visual design, part of BCU’s Department of Media and Communication. These particular videos are part of a promotional package currently being put together for BCU to showcase different schools of learning within the university. After meeting in Birmingham with SML I was commissioned to write music for two of the promotional videos. The keywords from the brief seemed to be “inspirational” and “youthful edge” with the idea of blending orchestral instruments, especially strings, with electronic percussion elements.

Here are the videos along with the compositions below each.

Birmingham School Of Media Promotional Video

Audio Only Composition

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Birmingham School Of Acting Promotional Video

Audio Only Composition

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I have recently been recording and archiving field recordings around Leeds for a new project that I have been working on.
The project is a sound installation which lasts for 24 minutes, each minute representing an hour of the day/night. The Installation will be presented in surround sound and accompanied by time lapse photography of various parts of Leeds. The working title is “Are you listening, Leeds?”
We (myself, Jed Skinner and Kristina Diprose) have applied to art in unusual places with our application and are awaiting a reply on whether we can get a space to hold the installation. All feed back so far has been positive.

Here is the project vision, written By Kristina Diprose:

Vision
The project aims to map the ‘acoustic ecology’ and sense of place evoked by the different sound worlds of the city.
We are currently producing a surround-sound installation consisting of 24 sixty second recordings capturing the spatial-temporal rhythms of Leeds’ cityscape during a 24 hour period. By revisiting localities during the day and night and through the use of transition sounds, we explore the contrast and diversity inherent in the everyday life of the city. We are employing a variety of recording methods to create a sense of scale from the intimate to the ambient, and to emphasise the diffusion of sound through a city in motion.
We hope to challenge the dominance of visual culture by considering the relationship between sound and space, for example in the production of anxiety, leisure time, rush hour and ‘switching off’. In doing so we reflect on the unusual and shifting pitch of the post-industrial city, imagining an urban environment more sensitively attuned to human interaction.
In addition to the surround-sound composition, we are exploring time-lapse photography to produce a corresponding visual cityscape. This will be projected simultaneously over the 24 minute performance and will contextualise our recordings in time and space.
The empty retail units in the city centre provide a unique opportunity to showcase this project. The ubiquitous soundscape of consumer space is the ideal juxtaposition to our vignettes of the subtler sounds of city life drawn from all corners of Leeds. This type of space could also enable us to make use of window-mounted speakers as trail space, territorialising and extending our installation in a similar way to the functioning of sound in commercial space.

I’ve put together a short stereo excerpt of some of our work so far. This particular segment runs from 3PM until 8PM, see if you can work out where they are!

A short solo piece performed on the Psaltery portfolio instrument has been added to the page, to listen take a look on the side bar to the right.
Amendments to the portfolio have been made and more demo pieces are on the way.

Hi and welcome to my site, whilst I am a sample library producer I am not a web designer so progress on this site may be slow.

I aim to make this site a place to promote my self as a sample library producer and sound designer. I’ll soon be uploading a portfolio of a few instruments to showcase my work and also providing details of my experience and skills.

Thank you and please get in touch with any questions