Works

music composition and sound design include :

DARK MATTER: ABSTRACT ANATOMY (2024)

Spatial score utilising SkySkan’s Dark Matter abstractions for International Planetarium Convention, Berlin, Germany.

SCORCHED EARTH 2 (2024)

Spatial sonics with Ernest Edmond’s ‘FIRE’ artwork - Creating Organic Spaces Show. Bridgeport Arts Centre, Chicago. USA.

DARK MATTER: EMBODIED (2024)

Sonic art submission - a journey through the human body DomeFest West, Boulder, Colorado. USA. SSIAtech/SkySkan.

DIFFERENCE ENGINES (2023)

Premier of immersive sonic/text work for Ambient Music Festival, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK

SILENT CHIMES (2023)

Work to celebrate centenary of Carillon Bell Tower, performed at Civic Ceremony. Loughborough, UK

SCORCHED EARTH (2023)

Sonic installation, Prisms of Influence: Colour in the Code, Mosman Gallery, Sydney Festival, Australia.

CONSTRUCTS:CONDUCTS 2 (2022)

Spherical interactive colour sound work with Ernest Edmonds. IMERSA, Satosphere, Montreal, Canada

RUNNING FOR THE REVOLUTION (2020)

Mark Craig’s movie doc. on great Cuban athlete Alberto Juantorena. Stopwatch Productions

ROCKET 3.2.1 (2019-)

Song-driven VR experience in development. Opening show ‘Women in Science’. Collaboration with Bruce Woolley, Dale Corderoy and Radio Science Orchestra 

NUVOLARI: THE MAD MAESTRO (2019-)

Animated movie about the legendry racing driver Tazio Nuvolari. In development with Film Director Mark Craig

CONSTRUCTS:CONDUCTS (2018)

Interactive colour-sound art installation with Ernest Edmonds. CHI Satosphere, Montreal, Canada

PLANETS 360 (2018)

Reinterpretation of Holst Planets. Commissioned by Royal Astronomical Society. sonicxploras/National Space Centre UK

UNDERWATER KINGDOM (2017)

Multi-zone synchronized environmental sound for kid’s ride. Blackgang Chine, Vectis Ventures. UK

ASTEROID:MISSION EXTREME (2016)

Score and sound design for Imax/FD production with Sigourney Weaver. sonicxploras for National Geographic/ SkySkan

CONCERTO FOR SONAR GENERATOR (2014)

Commissioned score for sonar generator, co-written with Bruce Woolley. Post War Orchestra/Gramophone.UK

STARSHIP EXPRESS (2013)

Interactive 3D sound installation for motion platform edutainment ride. sonicxploras for American Discovery Theatre/SkySkan. USA

TO SPACE AND BACK (2013)

3D sound score by sonicxploras. Narrated by James May. Franklin Institute/ SkySkan, USA

ASTRONAUT 3D (2012)

Stereoscopic re-visualisation of award-winning 2006 FD production with Ewan McGregor, Arts Council/NSC Creative

velo.city (2012)  

Concept proposal for televised interactive track cycling event, Solid State Opera, 2012 Cultural Olympiad. UK 

GREAT WHITE SILENCE (2011)

Development site-specific climate change installation with interactive musical ice block, Finland

FAR OUT (2009)

Return to roots psychedelic visual music work 3D stereoscopy & Full Dome projection with SkySkan, USA

STARS (2008)

Score with Nashville Symphony Orchestra for Full Dome show, Narrated by Mark Hamill. Adventure Science USA/NSC Creative

Voted ‘Best Soundtrack’ at IFF ‘09, European Festival of Immersive Cinema.

MINCARLO PROJECT (2008)

 Advisory role in school project for sonic installation for trawler, Deans High School/Lydia Trust, Lowestoft, UK

VOCAL VOIDS (2008)

Virtual opera singer explores architectural acoustics in real time. Full Dome performance. ACE

nucleosynthesis (2008) 

Concert work for synthetic/orchestral forces, Nashville Symphony, Schermerhorn Hall, Nashville. USA 

ASTRONAUT (2006)

Award-winning 2006 Full Dome production with Ewan McGregor, Arts Council/NSC Creative/Wellcome Foundation

EUROPA (2005)

Surround sound score for motion platform and 3D stereoscopic simulator ride, National Space Centre,UK

MARS (2004)

Commissioned work coinciding with October probe landings on Mars, National Space Centre

TRANSDEMONIUM (2003)

Through-score for dark iron ride on Gregorian theme, Parc Asterix, Paris. France

SETI (2002)

Surround sound score and sound design for ‘alien’ production with Hugh Laurie, National Space Centre UK 

PLANETS (2002)

Soundtrack for interactive teen show, National Space Centre, UK 

ACCELERATO (2002)

Concept commission to create interactive musical lift for Will Alsop. C/PLEX, West Midlands, UK

AREA 51 (2001)

Music track to animation , MTV

BENEATH THE LOCH (2001)  

Score for mixed media drama show, Loch Lomond Visitor Centre and Imax Cinema,  Scotland 

BIG (2001)

Soundtrack for immersive digital planetarium show, with Richard Attenborough, National Space Centre, UK   

SING-A-PHON (2001)

Concept for community participation in mobile phone-in opera, BBC Music Live event, BBC Midlands. 

OXYGENARIUM (2001)

Total Audio Works sound design and themes for spectacular water ride, Parc Asterix, Paris

WHITE NOISE (2000)

Interactive soft architecture for an internal and external performance dialogue. Solid State Opera.

WIRED & DANGEROUS (2000)

Live disinformation experiment with Emergency Arts Lab, Wired & Dangerous Arts Conference, ACE 

JOURNEY THROUGH TIME (2000)

Interpretive sound field installation for New Walk Museum, Leicester Museums 

RAPT : RAPTURE OF THE DEEP (1999)

Score for underwater docu drama on sub sea exploration.  Anglia Television

HOTEL GASTEN (1999)  

Award-winning ‘living’ score for live drama-based dark walk. Liseberg Park, Gothenberg, Sweden

SPEAKING TUBES (1997)

Sonic sculpture based on sonar residues of those lost at sea, Tolhouse Museum, Great Yarmouth

OUT OF THE BLUE (1997)

Large-scale on-shore off-shore music drama, Year of Opera ’97, Millennium Fund, AMEC

SPIN (1997)

Multimedia installation collaboration with digital artist Colin Pearce. Birmingham Film Festival

OLD MACDONALD FARM (1996)

Interactive animatronic kid’s farmyard for Alton Towers, Tussauds Group, UK

ROOTS OF RANNOCH (1996) 

Score for drama based experience based on Celtic legends. Highland MysteryWorld

SONIC CIRCUS (1996)

Public art installation, Hong Kong

TRANSMISSIONS (1995)

Remote on-line gallery sonic art installation, British Culture Week, MOMA, Esberg, Denmark 

PICCADILLY (1995)

Score for British silent classic Silent Noise Tour ’95 National Film Archive/British Film Institute

LAST BROADCAST (1994)

UK tour of extended 60 minute version for geodetic structure. EMA/ New Opera Fund, Arts Council  

THE ROCK MACHINE (1994)

Sonic recreation of Victorian ‘Rock, Steel & Bell Band’, Fitzwilliam Museum, Keswick

MOVIE MOVIE  (1994)

Drive-in opera study. New Collaborations R&D Fund, Arts Council

HIGH TREASON (1994)

UK tour of electronic score for 1929 silent film, Silent Noise Tour ‘94/Phoenix Arts/ BFI/ Arts Council.UK

LAST BROADCAST (1993)  

Live/robotic interactive hybrid opera installation commissioned by Video Positive, sited Tate, Liverpool

5K PURSUIT OPERA (1992)  

Acclaimed TV opera. Sport interacts with art through digital score. Channel 4 Television  

TOWER OF SOUND (1991)

Sonic sensitive structure for choreographer/performer Laurie Booth . ACE.

OLYMPIC BID: BARCELONA (1990)

Multi-screen audio visual presentation for Imagination, London.

ETERNAL LIFEGUARD (1986)

Site specific sonic installation  Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall

WILLIAM MORRIS STORY (1982)

Soundtrack for documentary film, Sanderson Fabrics, London

SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE (1981)

Programme theme for original Sue Townsend’s ‘Nigel Mole’ monologue,  BBC Radio 4

SPEED FREAK SAM (1979)       

Hit single for Cherry Lane co-written with Rod Thompson, CBS. 

NEGEV (1978)

Electronic ballet score for choreographer Gideon Avrahami. Ballet Rambert/EMA

SILVER SURFER (1975)

For Saul Ginsberg: Part One recorded live in 1975; Part Two with mezzo Gillian Lee in 1990.

DRACULA (1975)

Theatre show by Ken Hill, directed by Michael Bogdanov, National Theatre, UK

PLANET OF THE SEAS (1974)

Earth in melt down: electronic opera for tape, synthesizers and counter tenor, SSO/EMA

WORLD REQUIEM (1974)  

Part of eco trilogy, Solid State Opera. National Tour

Vaughan Simpkin, (bass) Pip Greasley (keys & vocals) Reece Muse (synths) & Nidge Robinson (percussion)

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (1973)

Eco works for electronics, tape, mezzo and band. Saul Ginsberg.

OZONE GOBBLER (1973)

Song-cycle illuminating the long-term effects of supersonic flight on the ozone layer, Solid State Opera

SECRET RITES (1971)

Film score for Spindle/Derek Ford/Columbia Pictures

THE POLLUTION SONG ‘69 (1969)

First of a sequence of songs flagging up climate change and ecological issues.