01
Voice first
Protect intelligibility and intimacy so narration and contributors remain the centre of the piece.
SOUND & MUSIC / 03
Audio documentary built around the listener.
Sound design for documentary, radio and narrative audio: voice stays clear while atmosphere, music, texture and transition give the story movement and identity.
Hear all 4 samples01 / APPROACH
Make information feel like an experience.
02
Atmosphere
Use texture and sonic detail to make places, ideas and unseen worlds feel immediate.
03
Movement
Build transitions and pacing that carry the listener between scenes, locations and ideas.
04
Musical identity
Bring music in where it can hold tone, rhythm or emotion without explaining the story twice.
05
Editorial judgement
Know when the right choice is detail, when it is restraint and when silence should do the work.
06
Final mix
Deliver a coherent listening experience across voice, music, archive, actuality and designed sound.
LISTEN / 01—04
Audio documentary samples.
Four examples from Robert's narrative audio and documentary work.
Diluvian Dreams
Audio documentary sample
The Last Breath
Narrative audio / documentary
Waves Through Barbed Wire
Narrative audio / documentary
Solo Orbit
Narrative audio / documentary
NEXT CUE / YOUR STORY
What should the listener feel?
Bring Robert the subject, the voices and the editorial shape. The sound can be built around what the story needs the listener to notice and experience.
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