Beneath the Bed | Theatre & Sound design

Wolf Tales
Pickled Image Theatre Ltd
Bristol Old Vic. Bristol

Music composition and Sound design.

Bristol-based Pickled Image, the acclaimed creative team behind hit shows ‘The Chatterbox’, ‘Houdini’s Suitcase’ and ‘Hunger’ present a playful storytelling show with a difference. Puppetry, shadows, recipes and songs are all used to create a spectacular and hilarious expose of the truth behind these classic fairy tales.

beneath the bed was commissioned to write the soundtrack for both the stage production and a short film based on the Brothers Grimm tale of the Seven Little Goats.

Hunger
Bristol Festival of Puppetry
Tobacco Factory. Bristol

Sound design.

An adaptation of Knut Hamsun's breakthrough novel. Hunger is regarded as one of the major modernist novels, anticipating and influencing much fiction that was to follow.

Hunger is a compelling journey into the mind of a young writer who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair. It is a study of the psychological hinterlands - to the very edges of experience.

A poetic and burlesque future vision created by the internationally renowned British puppet company Pickled Image and Norwegian TinkerTing.

The Lost World
Bristol Old Vic

Sound design.

Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic adventure, The Lost World leads us into a subterranean world that we explore at will. In every crate, round every corner, from floor to ceiling, there is a new surprise ready to thrill us – a lush Amazonian rainforest, enormous half chewed bones, the grizzly remains of other explorers, exotic scents, waxwork figures that spring to life, and of course, real living, breathing dinosaurs.
From the moment we enter the Lost World we become adventurers, seeking out the story of Professor Challenger’s mission and deciding for ourselves the revolutionary implications of his startling discoveries.

The Last Line
Tobacco Factory. Bristol

Composition & sound design.

Written and directed by Henrik G Dahle, the show features six characters battling with each other and with the words of the playwright, to achieve an ultimate goal – except they can't agree what that goal is!

Henrik hopes the evening will springboard a full-scale production of The Last Line at a later date, with a stage set designed by architects who are interested in sustainable building.

Visit BBC Theatre for more details.

Plura
Frith Street Gallery.
14 January 2010 – 27 February 2010

Composition & sound design.
A collaboration with Daphne Wright. Sculptor.

"A new video work by Wright is presented in the gallery’s basement space. In this piece the camera moves slowly across the surface of classical statues carved in marble. From time to time a hand, cheek or thigh move into the frame. The imagery is accompanied by a soundtrack of male and female voices; gutteral and indistinct sounds which seem to struggle with language and the recollection of specific forms and meanings – the beginnings of words, the start of sentences, conversations, and relationships imbue the figures with an emotive connection and function to shift the classical bodies from cold stone to an intimate and human composition."

Visit www.frithstreetgallery.com for more details.

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Bamboo Memories
PictureThis
Bristol

Composition & sound design.
A collaboration with Barby Asante.

Barby Asante's two screen film offers a chance to look back on the Bamboo Club – a now long-gone but still legendary Bristol nightclub in the 60s and 70s. Run by renowned yachtsman Tony Bullimore, the club was frequented by many of the participants in this film, who relate their memories providing a soundtrack to filmed re-enactments of imagined events at the Bamboo Club.

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Throat
Meadow Gallery.

Composition & sound design.
A collaboration with Daphne Wright. Sculptor.

"Daphne Wright's work plays with the desire we seem to have for an encounter with beauty in art. Much of her work is visually stunning in a relatively conventional sense. Yet what is central to these works is that on both the macro and micro scale - the distanced and the intimate - Wright wilfully undermines this promise of pleasure."

This intallation is set within a tunnel in the grounds of Hanbury Hall, A National Trust property in Worcestershire. Dating back to the early 18c "Snob's" tunnel was designed as a route for the estate workers between their working place and the house. The idea was that they should not be seen by the owners and visitor and 'spoil' the perfect vistas. The sound installation Throat is designed in surround-sound to be experienced as an auditory journey while passing through the tunnel. We can hear the voice of an old woman uttering basic phonetic sounds, like a child learning to speak. This collision of an old voice nearing the last breath and the childlike utterances creates a haunting space between silence and words. In this emotional resonance are all the words that might have been spoken by voices now stilled.

Visit www.meadowarts.org for more details.