Portfolio
I take great pride in making good work.
Here is a collection of some of my favourite published pieces I have worked on.
A lockdown project exploring Gods withness in suffering
A live recording of Church family songs
A cowritten single with a best friend
A cowrite and coproduction of a dance track
A recording from Magnitude Festival
A creative solo project
Everything
Created with TITUS BANK, ‘Everything’ is a song written to capture the explosive wonder of God. Featuring folk/pop influences, it carries a lively production with energy and intrigue with synth lead lines, sampled drums and fun guitar parts throughout.
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.
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.
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.
Vintage
Produced as part of my solo project ‘Songs from the Journey’, Vintage is an exploration into themes of passing of time, growth in life and leaning on the strengthening presence of Jesus. It finds it’s sound in the influence of Bon Iver, Billie Eilish and Jonathon Ogden with a unique vocoder expression used alongside rhodes piano emulation.
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.
Please contact me for examples of tracks mixed and mastered for others as these are as of yet unpublished.