‘The Pleasure Gardens’ is an album of guitar-led instrumentals.
Available to stream or download from Bandcamp.
Category: Music
Pomerania
‘Pomerania‘ is an album of original guitar-led instrumentals, produced in my home studio in Folkestone, once a kipper-smoking shed.
Available to stream or download from Bandcamp.
Cover painting by Frank Pudney.
Red Rover
Red Rover – the latest stop-motion short animation by Astrid Goldsmith – is a sci-fi action-adventure film about a diminutive race of Martian rock-beasts whose way of life is threatened by the arrival an exploratory rover from Earth. The score combines traditional orchestration with other-worldly electronic sounds.
Watch the Red Rover film trailer here.
Continue reading Red RoverTechnology For Talking
Technology For Talking is a short animated film by director Jemima Hughes about Alternative or Augmentative Communication (AAC) – technology that gives disabled people a voice. The film was commissioned by the BBC for their BBC Ideas platform’s ‘Rethinking Disability’ strand, and is available to watch here.
Quarantine
Quarantine is a stop-motion short film by Astrid Goldsmith, about a troupe of Morris-dancing badgers living in the shadow of a quarantine facility. It was commissioned by the BFI and BBC4 as part of their prestigious Animation 2018 talent scheme and screened to a capacity audience at the BFI, before being shown on BBC4.
Continue reading QuarantineFolkestone’s El Dorado: An auditory ramble through The Warren
El Dorado is a triptych of soundscapes that combine original music and field recordings capturing the unique sounds and biodiversity of Folkestone Warren: a designated local nature reserve (LNR) and site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
“The Warren has been termed the El Dorado and the “terra felix” of the entomologists. And not without reason.”
– Rambles Around Folkestone by “Felix”, 1913
The field recordings were made along three routes, and over three consecutive mornings in the first week of July 2018, between 4am and 7am, during the dawn chorus when the avian inhabitants of The Warren are at their most vocal.
Continue reading Folkestone’s El Dorado: An auditory ramble through The Warren