Portfolio
I take great pride in making good work.
Here is a collection of some of my favourite published pieces I have worked on.
Learning to Grow Old
Produced for Josh Hamilton. Learning to grow old is his debut EP exploring ideas of rawness, vulnerability and acoustic authenticity. With significant references of Adrianne Lenker and Big thief we sought to create a sound world that felt like you truly joined us in our two day recording in the Scottish rolling lowlands.
Cleaner
Produced for Megan Faye. Cleaner feels like big country rock meets delicate alt folk. Featuring significant ‘folklore’ and Jade Bird references, we explored broken tape machine sounds to create foley rhythms, big electric guitar parts and bold vocal parts with distortion to bring energy, freshness and edge.
A delicate indie electro folk song
A lively electro synth pop banger
A creative solo project
A live recording of Church family songs
Inner Peace
Created as a short composition reel, this rescoring for ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’ dynamically captures the protagonist (Po) relive his trauma and grief on his journey toward inner peace. Featuring an array of different recurring motifs and techniques it primarily features a repeated grief theme as well as the contrast of the acoustic ‘simple life’ being disrupted by the technological invasion of genocide. Featuring influence from Natalie Holts particular use of blending string instruments with sine wave synths and John Williams use of motif, it seeks to gather it’s differing expressions to create a moving experience empowering the visual storytelling.
No Greater Love
Composed to accompany a piece of delicate meditative poetry by Kate Lab, ‘No Greater Love’ features unobtrusive overlapping melodic and foley ideas seeking to create a sonic softness for the spoken word to sit upon.
A cowritten single with a best friend
A cowrite and coproduction of a dance track
A recording from Magnitude Festival
A lockdown project exploring Gods withness in suffering
House of Word and Spirit Intro
Composed for the intro music of Ruth Weller’s Podcast with the brief of being ‘not too cinematic, but something strong. Absolutely for Gen Z. Could have a solid beat but be a little raw and down to earth. Bringing peace and confidence in God to a broken and shaken world”. I attempted to gather the energy of sampled drums and sweeping synths alongside the comfort of a looping lofi-esq acoustic guitar to create a piece that spoke to an earthy and familiar sense of confidence.
STRAVAIG
A short documentary shot and directed by Cameron Stein. Following Lomond Mountain Rescue on a training exercise into a previously undiscovered waterfall deep in the Scottish Highlands. Shot on Super8 film, it captures the tactility of the environment and the real-world process of the volunteers.
To accentuate the captured raw and barren landscape, I composed an exposed guitar and fiddle piece and complimented this with foley of field recordings from the Scottish highlands. I performed without click track to allow free flowing expression. Both parts were recorded with my Shure KSM42 and produced with minimal production to maintain the highly exposed feeling of the film.
Hope
Created as the intro music for Easter House Baptists Sunday gatherings, ‘Hope’ was written as a catchy one minute loop to be used as people enter the sanctuary space. The focus of the church in that season was ‘Joy’ and this piece through formatted upbeat drum loops, light acoustic guitar parts, airy synth lead and lively synth bass seeks to embody that sense of new beginnings.