Here's a trailer for another virtual reality project for the Guardian I worked on, providing music and sound design. I also did the location recording, music and sound design and mix for Beat the Hustler, a 360 film with some interaction, filmed in London. All of which reminds me of this Berger & Wyse cartoon …
Haunted podcast for Panoply
I've composed the music and created the sound design for this Panoply podcast, produced by Chalk & Blade – a great exploration of what lies beneath everyday stories of spookery. From the Panoply website:
"Do ghosts exist? If not, why do we see them? In each episode Danny Robins looks at a real life ghost story in forensic detail trying to work out what really happened, with the help of experts, sceptics and the people who witnessed something they just can't explain.
Danny visits a famous racetrack where drivers return from the dead; sees a suburban house haunted by a racist ex-tenant; talks to a widower who shares his bed with a phantom; and meets the parents who became convinced a ghost wanted to kill their baby daughter."
Sounding off with Andrew Scott
A series of podcast tales for kids heading – or being dragged – on holiday, gleefully mashing up local folklore, written by Paul Magrs and virtuosically read by Andrew Scott. This was for the Guardian in collaboration with Airbnb. I wrote the music and did the sound design. Choose from Jack the Giant Killer, The Wandering Knight of Zagreb, The Dragon of Palma de Mallorca, Pinochio and the Field of Miracles, The Legend of the Almond Trees.
Limbo: a virtual experience of waiting for asylum
I've been wrapping my head around sound for virtual reality. Or should that be wrapping the sound for virtual reality around my head? It was good to work in an area that feels as if it is still discovering itself, even if at times if felt like the early days of plumbing: pipe the sound from one place to another, tape the ends together, press play and see if it works – or leaks all over the place. End of clumsy metaphor. This first piece is with the Guardian. I wrote some of the music and looked after the postproduction, sound design and 360 mix.
Sounding off with Andrew Scott
A series of podcast tales for kids heading – or being dragged – on holiday, gleefully mashing up local folklore, written by Paul Magrs and virtuosically read by Andrew Scott. This was for the Guardian in collaboration with Airbnb. I wrote the music and did the sound design. Choose from Jack the Giant Killer, The Wandering Knight of Zagreb, The Dragon of Palma de Mallorca, Pinochio and the Field of Miracles, The Legend of the Almond Trees.