
The clients I've worked with include Netflix, A24, BBC, Google, HBO, The New York Times, Dr Who and The National Trust, to name a few. But it all started with a 4 track Fostex tape machine back in 1994.
The first real success I had in a band was with Wauvenfold (Wichita Records) circa 2000 / 2002 (here's a Pitchfork review). During our time together we did a session with John Peel on Radio One, opened the Baltic Centre live in Gateshead, played the VA Museum and did a few remixes for The Super Furry Animals. We even got word, during a live set on Radio 3, that Bjork was a fan, which was nice!
For a period of time after that I taught music technology at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies in Nottingham where I obtained a teaching qualification in further education. During my time there I taught Logic Pro, Cubase, Reason, Ableton Live, scoring to picture and live sound.
I went solo in 2007, under the name Origamibiro and released my debut record, Cracked Mirrors & Stopped Clocks on Expanding Records. That got picked up by a few film makers who asked to use various tracks for films. My career in scoring for film kind of spiralled from there.
Origamibiro went on to sign with Denovali Records and became a multi-media live performance act, enlisting double bassist Andy Tytherleigh and visual artist Jim Boxall to the mix. Together, we went on to tour Europe for a couple of years and released a total of 5 albums. NME described our live show as:
"Beautiful, Four Tet-esque ripples of melody, rhythms generated from loops, paper scrunches and the click-clack of typewriter keys – and a live video feed splicing all this together into a mesmerising visual backdrop. You can’t help but be impressed by Origamibiro’s audio-visual mechanics. A revelation."
Though it's now returned back to a solo project for me, Andy remains a strong collaborator and appears on both my last Village Green album, Grains of Space, and my latest Origamibiro album, Miscellany.
It wasn't until 2017 that I began releasing under my own name on Village Green Recordings with the album, Asylum For Eve, which is a mixture of soundtrack work and new material. Music from that album got used for a number of films, including trailers for A24 and Netflix. Check out the soundtracks page for more of that.
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