PROJECTS

A selected portfolio of work including moving image, music production and audio design.

F For Farnham (2024)

F for Farnham is a self-guided audio story walk which takes you on a ghostly journey around Surrey’s most haunted town, written/directed by Sophie Austin and produced by Simon Aeppli.

I was the lead sound designer; I recorded and edited the narration, managed a team of sound designers for Series 1, designed the sound for Series 2, and provided the final mix.

Awake (2023)

AWAKE is a short experimental documentary about a liminal moment in the calendar - midwinter - observed by the inhabitants of a small rural village in England.

A time outside time, magic is everywhere and anything is possible. Bearing witness to this turning point, the inhabitants gather for a wassail - a centuries old thanksgiving ritual of in which folk gather to honour the slow return of the sun and bless the apple trees whose fruit are essential to the village ecosystem, not least the crumbles, juice and cider that sustains them throughout the year.

collecting pl4ces (2022)

Collecting Pl4ces is a ground-breaking project by the Forward 4 Wiz Trust which celebrates landmarks of cultural heritage in Rushmoor.

Places of local significance are signposted by gathering impulse responses using a short transient sound at each location. These transient recordings together with a freely available convolution reverb plugin will allow professional and aspiring local musicians, to incorporate the acoustic identity of a site into their own creations. The impulse responses are available to anyone worldwide who would like to use them to explore their own musical identity within the virtual space of our local places - you can find more information here.

A compilation album which showcases the space-specific works written and recorded from these acoustic mappings was released on Bandcamp which you can hear here.

I was one of five selected local artists commissioned to write a piece of music which celebrates the unique atmospheres of this local heritage, followed by with a live performance in the space itself. My chosen space was the Dance Studio located inside the West End Centre, Aldershot; the final piece can be heard here.

For this project I created a custom Ableton Live sample-instrument called the ‘Entropy Machine’, which uses recordings of cymbals and gongs to create an ethereal space. Pitch, speed and sample direction can be manipulated with ease, along with the ability to run the sounds through several impulse responses to emphasise the resonances of the space.

Z’EST ÉDITIONS Promo (2020)

An animated production logo for French publishing company Z'EST Éditions.

Narcissus (2019)

OFFICIAL SELECTION | Chicago International Film Festival (2020)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | London Lift-Off Film Festival (2019)

Director: Phillip Osborne
My Role: Sound Design/Mix

In the absence of exposition, we rely on the the relationship between picture and sound to ferment a response to our characters inner motivations, to synthesise emotional intent.

In Narcissus, a rich library of water sounds was created for the film, recorded using various overhead and underwater microphones. These were then processed and manipulated digitally to highlight the protagonist’s fall into an egotist purgatory. Wretched sounds of glass construct a dense soundscape to compliment Robert Martland’s beat-driven score.

Heng yue (2019)

OFFICIAL SELECTION | Manchester Film Festival (2020)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | London International Film Festival (2019)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | University for the Creative Arts Tech X Exhibition (2019)

Director: Tara Darby
Production: Boys By Girls
My Role: Sound Design/Mix/Composer

Listen as his feet move measuredly across the dry, fallen leaves. Listen as he aims his breath. When Heng pauses, listen as the wind resumes its journey.
https://boysbygirls.co.uk/stories/heng-yue

Into your light (2018)

Director: Tara Darby & The Fandangoe Kid
My Role: Sound Mix

A film about dancing and movement as a ritual for survival.

https://www.fandangoekid.com/into-your-light-film

This Was Told To Me (2017)

OFFICIAL SELECTION | Pull Focus Festival (2018)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | Belfast Film Festival (2018)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | Critical Poetics
OFFICIAL SELECTION | IndieCork (2017)

Director: Simon Aeppli
Producer: Simon Aeppli
My Role: Sound Edit/Mix/Composer

This Was Told to Me is a personal essay film set in the once notorious 'Bandit Country' of South Armagh, Northern Ireland and explores themes of memory, identity, love, loss and exile. The film combines photographs, video, text and sound materials to create a road movie that melds documentary and narrative, past and present.

ophelia (2017)

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM | Broadway Film Festival
NOMINEE BEST SHOWCASE SHORT FILM | SOHO International Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION | Brussels Independent Film Festival 2017
OFFICIAL SELECTION | Toronto Film Week 2017
OFFICIAL SELECTION | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Shakespeare Shorts 2017
OFFICIAL SELECTION | Verona International Film Festival 2017
OFFICIAL SELECTION | SBE’s Hamilton International Film Festival 2017

Director: Jamie Sims
Producer: Jacquie Dore
Production: Initiative 26
My Role: Sound Edit/Mix

Available to watch on Amazon Prime.

Ophelia is a visceral and urgent reimagining of one of Shakespeare's tragic love stories. Two people, both pushed to their own limits whilst trying to hold on desperately to each other, discover that love, too, can be just as destructive.

Day with Dad (2015)

Director: Jamie Sims
Producer: Jonny Ruff
Production: 3leggeddog
My Role: Sound Edit/Mix

Spending the day with your dad is pretty boring, especially when your dad has to go to work.

Day With Dad was made after winning Mutiny Media's Script challenge.

Putting On The Dish (2015)

OFFICIAL SELECTION | London Short Film Festival (2015)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | Portobello Film Festival (2015)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | GFEST - Gaywise Festival (2015)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | New York City Short Film Festival (2015)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | Leeds Queer Film Festival (2015)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | The Shortest Nights Film Festival (2015)

Directors: Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston
Producer: Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston
Production: Brian & Karl
My Role: Sound Edit/Mix

London, 1962. Two strangers strike up a conversation on a park bench about life, sex and the hostile world they find themselves in as gay men. The conversation might be commonplace, but the language isn't, because the two men are speaking in Polari; a form of slang spoken by some gay men used primarily as a coded way for them to discuss their experiences. Shedding light on a little-known and fascinating slice of gay history, this film is a darkly comic exploration of oppression, resilience and gay subculture in 1960s England.

"Good Treatment" - Sci Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge (2015)

SECOND PLACE | Sci Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge (2015)
CREATIVITY AWARD | FORSTER FILM FESTIVAL: Nightfest Fest (2015)

Director: Jamie Sims
Producer: Jonny Ruff
Production: 3leggeddog
My Role: Sound Recordist/Edit/Mix

A short film made for the Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge, 2015.

Requirements :
Title: GOOD TREATMENT
Dialogue: "Did you check today's readings or should I do them now?"
Prop & Action: A map - a character studies the map, then marks a location (can be electronic)
Optional Science Idea: Access your mind through a computer programme

Bus Stop (2015)

BEST ‘GOLDEN RULE’ FILM | Tampa Bay Humanitarian Film Festival (2019)
BEST FICTION FILM | Thurrock Film Festival (2015)
BEST FILM & BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING | Durham Film Festival (2015)
BEST FILM | The Out Of The Box Film Festival (2015)
FILM OF THE WEEK | Awardeo (2015)
FILM OF THE MONTH - Second Place| Shooting People (2015)
OFFICIAL SELECTION | The London Short Film Festival (2015)
SATURDAY SHORTS | AintItCoolNews.com (2015)

Director: Jamie Sims
Producer: Jamie Sims
Production: 3leggeddog
My Role: Sound Edit/Mix

He just lost his job. She just got dumped. These two strangers meet at a bus stop right when they needed each other the most. In an impromptu attempt to cheer each other up they go on an tour of his home town however before the tour is over reality bumps into them.

James R.G. Wright