Echo
This is a piece of composition/sound design that I originally designed for the interactive theatre game Echo (dir. Mel Cook) in March 2009.
Echo was inspired by the Echo and Narcissus myth, and was commissioned by SPID theatre as a piece of interactive community theatre. It featured live musicians, actors, video projection and an interactive set as well as the sound collages and compositions that I designed for the show.
After interviewing members of the community living in and around the Trellick Tower in west London, I produced a series of narrative audio clues to guide players around the Meanwhile Gardens, a community space underneath the tower. The 'goal' of the game was to get to the final location, where we had produced an audio-visual installation which was triggered by a touch pad, which in turn triggered a camera and projector, projecting people's faces onto the side of the Trellick Tower, whilst a sound collage made from fragments of the interviews played through hidden speakers.
The piece was such a success that we re-ran it in September 2009 (which also featured me 'duetting' on trumpet with a fire juggler!), and again in modified form for the Latitude Festival in July 2010.
Here are some of the bits of sound design that I did for the show.
This one used a Tibetan singing bowl and shakuhachi flute along with some organ that I played.
This one used lots of found sounds, and was played through a big PA in the skateboard park within Meanwhile Gardens:
