Immersive projects

I have been lucky enough to act as composer and sound designer for a range of immersive events, carefully crafting a soundscape to envelope the listener and further the narrative. I particularly enjoy how varied and interesting this work is, plus it's always a joy to work in a multidisciplinary team. Feel free to and read more about each one below!

The Hatchling - Large Scale Outdoor Theatre

A double decking sized puppet (from the creators of ‘War Horse’) hatches, explores the city and flies over the audience in the finale. I was the audio lead, creating all new sound design and adapting an existing score with additional composition to create a piece that could be performed and controlled live during the show. This included atmospheric and immersive sound beds during the egg hatch, and dramatic music controlled live during the flight.

"George was great to work with. He did lots of work to assess and prepare the scale of the job, understood the brief well, and brought a playful, creative energy. It was a pleasure to exchange ideas and work in rehearsal towards the final piece and George works well collaboratively; he always has ideas to offer and is able to be flexible about where it all goes. We were really happy about how sensitively he was able to find musical choices that supported and accentuated the action. " - Mervyn Millar, Director

The Hatchling Website

GROUND - Immersive Supper Club

An immersive supper club that engages the audience with the food on their plate through story telling. Set in a pop up restaurant with surround sound. This required creating an immersive environment to further the involvement and narrative of each story. I was the audio lead and creator, working closely with other departments. It featured an audience participation finale, where we asked the audience to collectively humm a note. A choir recording then slowly joined, with each section of the choir harmonising with the audience whilst rotating around them and speeding up to a climactic finish.

'GROUND' completed 40 sell out shows at the Brighton Festival 2024, set against the UK's first Earthship

"Thanks for making GROUND extraordinary. It’s been amazing working with you. Here’s to another success!! Wouldn’t have been as magical without your incredible skill and talent. " - Angie Bual, Director

GROUND website

TEABREAK - Touring narrative driven dance show (Binaural)

As you stir your cup, gently glide through the history and ritual of tea with a transportive audio piece and live dance performance. Follow the journey of tea across continents and centuries, onto our shores and into our teapots as the great comforter of our time.

TEABREAK has toured over 30 festivals over the last three years, and continues to tour.

TEABREAK Website

Sample Instrument Design

Where sound design meets composition

I have always been interested in all aspects of sound. Taking influence from the technical instrument design taught in my Audio Engineering degree, and the creative flair encouraged in my Music Production MA, I have been exploring the exciting relationship between sound design and composition. I have studied sound design, spatial audio, recording techniques modules. I have put these skills into practice in a professional context, with experience working as a sound assistant on Channel 4's Emmerdale, helping with all aspects of sound recording including boom operation. On the other side of things, I have worked as both the composer and sound designer for the feature documentary film 'The Journey To the East'.

More recently, for my MA final project I focused on creating new sample instruments using the 'Kontakt' sampler out of field recordings and unusual existing instruments. This explored the creative possibilities of sample instrument development, where it is possible to take an audio file, and spread this pitch over the length of a keyboard to create a new playable instrument, with all the characteristics of the natural recording. On a 6 week road trip throughout Europe in my camper van, I embarked with a variety of recording equipment to find interesting sounds and manipulate them into even more interesting instruments, truly blurring the line between sound design and composition.

I have started to publish some of my sample instruments on Pianobook for free download. I've been inspired by many other peoples instruments so its good to share! The first instrument I have shared has been downloaded over 750 times currently. You can watch a bit about how it was developed in the YouTube video. Link to download the instrument: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/organic-reverb-experiments-01/

I have been lucky enough to act as composer and sound designer for a range of immersive events, carefully crafting a soundscape to envelope the listener and further the narrative. I particularly enjoy how varied and interesting this work is, plus it's always a joy to work in a multidisciplinary team.