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This video essay explores how film scores & soundtracks are made and recorded. And how they evoke meaning and stand the test of time within our minds and hearts long after the screen fades to black.

Amy Green, Saxophone Sam Wilson, Drums Recorded at Woolwich Works Audio Production by Jack Ross Video Production by ThirdMan Productions

SONAMB (Vicky Clarke) performs NEURAL MATERIALS, with live video by Sean Clarke. This work uses machine learning and Bela technologies, including touch sensors on a metal sculpture created especially for this project. Performer: Vicky Clarke (as SONAMB), Sean Clarke Performance: Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK, 25 April 2024 Video and editing: ThirdMan Productions NEURAL MATERIALS was commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, Cyborg Soloists at Royal Holloway, University of London [grant number MR/T043059/1].

The live recording of our second single 'Caravan Club'. Shot and edited by ThirdMan Productions Recorded by Dean Taylor and Maria Duarde at Spirit Studios Mixed by Doug Cave Mastered by Bill Sellars (Tru Peak Audio) Instagram: @afhaus/ Spotify: @5cvu8yAuewYkHQGuYEnEfe Apple: @st/deafhaus/1576021201 Amazon: @layer/artists/B0BVBP22XD/deafha%C3%BCs Deezer: @st/201013427 Tidal: @37282840 Soundcloud: @s ThirdMan Productions: Website: @ Instagram: @n.productions

Kathryn Williams (flute) and Ed Cooper (guitar) perform their piece Fourfold, which uses Soundbrenner wearable metronomes and stethoscope microphones. Performer: Kathryn Williams, Ed Cooper Performance: Uncanny Bodies, iklectik, London, UK, 18 May 2023 Video and editing: ThirdMan Productions Fourfold was commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, Cyborg Soloists at Royal Holloway, University of London [grant number MR/T043059/1]. It was one of two winners of the project's first Call for Collaborative Music Projects. Cover photo by Sam Walton Photography.

Ben Jameson (guitar) and Harry Matthews (keyboard) perform their piece Aeolian Fantasy, which uses Vochlea's Dubler 2 audio-to-MIDI software to create microtonal pitches from the sound of the breeze from desk fans hitting a microphone. Performer: Ben Jameson, Harry Matthews Performance: Uncanny Bodies, iklectik, London, UK, 18 May 2023 Video and editing: ThirdMan Productions Aeolian Fantasy was commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, Cyborg Soloists at Royal Holloway, University of London [grant number MR/T043059/1]. It was one of two winners of the project's first Call for Collaborative Music Projects. Cover photo by Sam Walton Photography.

Heather Roche performs Mark Dyer's Droning falsities (for one's self), for contrabass clarinet and electronics. Performer: Heather Roche Performance: Uncanny Bodies, iklectik, London, UK, 18 May 2023 Video and editing: ThirdMan Productions Uncanny Bodies was presented by Cyborg Soloists, supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London [grant number MR/T043059/1]. Cover photo by Sam Walton Photography.

Heather Roche performs Robert Phillips' Rutaceae, for bass clarinet and electronics. Performer: Heather Roche Performance: Uncanny Bodies, iklectik, London, UK, 18 May 2023 Video and editing: ThirdMan Productions Uncanny Bodies was presented by Cyborg Soloists, supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London [grant number MR/T043059/1]. Cover photo by Sam Walton Photography.

Emily Howard introduces her orchestral work 'Antisphere' alongside an excerpt recorded by BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni, ahead of the release of her portrait album 'Torus' on NMC Recordings: release date 28 April 2023. PRE-ORDER 'EMILY HOWARD: TORUS' FROM NMC RECORDINGS HERE: https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/emily-howard-torus // Emily Howard (2019): Antisphere EP73424 ©Peters Edition Limited, London Recorded by the BBC at The Bridgewater Hall on 29 October 2022, as part of the RNCM PRiSM Future Music #4 Festival. Feat. BBC Philharmonic Conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni Production team Emily Howard | Composer & Director RNCM PRiSM Stephen Rinker | Recording Engineer Matthew Bennett | Producer Thirdman Productions | Videography Thirdman Productions & Bofan Ma | Audio-visual Post-production Zakiya Leeming | Interview Production // Album info: Emily Howard is a multi-award-winning composer who is deeply fascinated with the "poetry" that can be found in mathematical shapes and processes. The development of a series of geometry-inspired orchestral works has been central to her creative practice over recent years, and these Orchestral Geometries make up three of the four pieces on Howard's new album, Torus. The work which gives the album its name, Torus, was a 2016 BBC Proms Commission described by The Times as "visionary", and was the winner of the orchestral category of the 2017 British Composer Awards. Here the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins bring to life, Howard's meditation on the shape which her collaborator, the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy describes in his notes for the album as "a finite flat geometry where top and bottom are joined into a cylinder which is then connected at both ends to make a doughnut shape." Howard translates this into vivid music punctuated with continual oscillations and pulsations, with the void in the centre of the shape playing a vital part in this music of stark contrasts. Antisphere, which was featured in the Barbican's high-profile Life Rewired season in 2019, interprets the impossibly concave imaginary shape of its namesake. An uncanny panorama of "huge gyrations" and "estranged pitches" (Paul Griffiths), are heard here performed by the BBC Philharmonic with conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni. Although she is inspired by the intricate mathematical properties of each form, Howard goes further to produce her Orchestral Geometries. She meditates on each form, its distinct character and "shape-energy", saying, "the musical score often emerges through the consideration of multiple journeys around the imagined entity, from multiple viewpoints." During the composition of the smaller-scale work sphere, Howard imagined travelling across the convex surface of the shape, encountering different landscapes which are brought to life in this recording by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. The newest work on the album is Compass for string septet (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group with conductor Gabriella Teychenné) and solo percussionist (Julian Warburton). Howard conceives of this piece as a synthesis and evolution of her Orchestral Geometries, elaborating on the soundworlds of all three geometric forms, producing music which is more weird, more abstract, perhaps symbolising a new chapter in the composer's body of work. This new album follows Magnetite, the critically-acclaimed portrait disc which NMC released in 2016 as part of the label's Debut Disc series. Catalogue no: NMC D274 Release date: 28 April 2023 // The album and the recording of this work are supported by PRiSM, The RNCM Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music, funded by the Research England fund Expanding Excellence in England (E3).