UCL Bartlett PG24 (2015)

Tone and timing - elements crucial to master when designing how a building's key moments will unfold - can help create a more meaningful and elegant experience. Having switched careers from Architecture to composing film music I quickly realised that the way I approached a design brief worked equally well when approaching a music brief - I found them practically interchangeable, the difference was an output in sound rather than in glass, steel, timber, concrete and woven phosphor bronze. If we let the history, lighting, aspect, material, location and director's point of view of a scene and of the film as a whole guide us, then there are plenty of clues as to which instruments to pick, tempo to choose, volumes to work at, effects to add in, what to include and what to omit (less is more!), etc.