About me
I am a media professional with wide-ranging skills. My experience includes composition, sound design, musicianship, studio and location recording, mixing/mastering, graphic design for web and print, and video.
I recently obtained a diploma in Sonic Arts from London University of the Arts.
My favourite film directors are Alejandro Jodorowsky and Akira Kurosawa.
Skills
• Location recording – Field recorders and mixers, boom operating, shotgun (Sennheiser ME-66, 67), lavaliere, ambient, stereo, Mid/Side mic configurations, convolution capture.
• Music Composition and Sound Design – ProTools ME, Acid Pro, Soundforge, Ableton Live, Audiomulch, Max/MSP, Native Instruments Kontakt, Absynth, FM8, Izotope Ozone, sound effects, loop and orchestral libraries
• Design for web and print – Dreamweaver, Flash and web video, CSS, HTML, XML, PHP, Apache server on Unix, use of MySQL, phpMyAdmin, cPanel, mod rewrite, Wordpress, Movable Type. I am comfortable with PC, OSX or K/Ubuntu
• Photography, Video and cd/dvd authoring – to red book standards (Photoshop, Final Cut, Premiere, Vegas, DVD Architect), Sony PD-150 camera
• French Language – semi-fluent
Professional Experience
Music for TV, Film, Theatre
Newington Dance Collective – music composed for a piece performed at Shunt Vaults – (2009)
Etta Ermini Dance Theatre – ‘Game Spotting’ – Sound Design and recording (2008)
Etta Ermini Dance Theatre – ‘Fixed Wheel’ – first shown april 2008 and performed in Belgium, Romania, Switzerland (all sounds recorded from bicycle parts)
Moving East – Live looping improvised sets for Contact Improvisation Workshops (2008)
Siobhan Davies Dance Studios – Live set (2008)
Newington Dance Space – Live set and installation of sound system (2007)
National Geographic Channel / Parthenon Films – Score for 45-minute documentary:
‘Living Edens: Yellowstone – America’s Sacred Wilderness’ - (2006)
Red Sky Vision – Music for ‘Pete Doherty: Off the Record’ documentary trailer (DVD) – (2007)
Nick Wade – Music for animation showreel – (2005)
Sky TV ‘The Headliners’ – Theme tune (2004)
KFC Training Video / Realization (2004)
Signs of Life. Recording and mixing audio cd for Signs of Life childrens group performance at Chisenhale – (2004)
Geek Films – ‘Swordsman’ – Soundtrack (2003)
Location Recording and Post Production
LCC – Student tv production as sound mixer, floor sound, researcher
Red Sky Vision – Boom operator, sound recordist and post production for corporate videos
‘Doryn’s Dish’ – Producing regular podcasts
Bands/Projects
Koe – myspace.com/koeband – experimental postrock band (guitars, composition, arrangement, mixing).
Debut album ‘Stem the Tide’ released on Sacred Cow records (2008).
Gigs across London including Fopp records and Badge of Friendship DIY Festival at the ICU, London (2007)
Reviewed by Organ and Artrocker. Airplay on Resonance fm.
ghOst – myspace.com/ghostronica – ambient/noise/drone electronica project with projected film (edited in Premiere and After Effects). ‘ghOst’ album cdr release. ghOst dvd. Live at Immersion 2007 cdr release.
Regular appearances at The Pool Bar and Immersion at The Flea Pit (April 2007). Featured on Otaku magazine’s ‘Kaidan’ issue cover cd (June 2008)
El Capitan – Drums, songwriting and mixing/mastering for alternative rock band (2005)
Gigs across London. Self-titled album cdr release
Water Ox – ambient electronica project (2002)
‘in progress..’ cdr release; ‘herbal flower’ cdr release
Areas of Interest
I have studied taiko drumming and butoh dance.
Recently I studied improvisation with David Toop’s Laptop Orchestra / Unknown Devices, performing at the London Musician’s Collective exhibition opening. I am curating a performance by Unknown Devices at Whitechapel art gallery in late 2009.
I have an interest in capturing the reverberant character of spaces using convolution with Waves IR and Voxengo Pristine Reverb.
My recent installation ‘Loop:recycle’ represents an ongoing fascination with multi-channel sound and Max/MSP.
Qualifications
City Lit College
An Introduction to Max/MSP (2009)
London College of Communication
ABC Diploma in Sound Design and Music Technology with Distinction (2009)
Digital Photo Imaging (2009)
Corps Training
CSS (2007)
Peterborough Parachute Centre
Parachute training and descent (May 1998)
Middlesex University
Ba (Hons) English Literature with Film Studies (1998)
Chelsea College of Art & Design
BTEC ND in General Art & Design with Merit (1994)
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