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I have been writing music for programmes for around 15 years now and it is a side of my work that I particularly enjoy. I have been blessed with clients who have given me pretty much carte blanche to fully express what they are saying with their pictures with my music.

I very much prefer to work to picture, preferably the final cut (offline is okay) as I can then see my work in context at all times. Sometimes I quite literally write to picture, reacting note for note in the same way as a pianist in the days of the silent movie.

Because of the number of works that I have written over a long period of time I keep a separate site Music 4 Docs. Please visit it for full details of my work and many examples. However, I also include here some details with regard to commissioning and a few individual examples, as well as the show reel in the sidebar.

Bigfootville

Okay, lets all go out and find a Big Foot and make a programme about it.

Well, that was Bruce Burgess's theory and who am I to argue. The footage and resulting programme said more about the people of Oklahoma than it did about Big Foot and was a wonderful collage of believers and skeptics mixed with dodgy night shoots and strange encounters.

Did they find a big foot?

Of course they didn't, but I did get to write a great sound track to the film!

Rocket Men

This documentary, produced by Red Johnston and Bruce Burgess (now of Blue Book Films) was a stunningly made programme of interviews with all the Astronauts that had made the Moon Trip during the Apollo missions.

It told the story in some detail through the words of the astronauts, the controllers of missions control and others at NASA supported by the stunning images that were brought back.

To support the film I wrote a full 40 minutes of music, working closely to the final cut to really give the programme the respect it deserved. The long excerpt below is edited from the full work and covers the range and depth that was required.