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Original score
Music written specifically for the production, its structure, tone and audience.
SERVICE / MUSIC
Original music shaped around the production.
Robert composes for the rhythm, emotional architecture and practical reality of live work. The aim is not simply to add music, but to give the production a musical language that belongs to it.
Discuss the production01 / COMPOSITION
Music with a clear dramatic job.
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Themes & motifs
Musical ideas that can recur, change and accumulate meaning across the story.
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Transitions
Music that carries the production through changes of time, place, pace or emotional state.
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Sound-design integration
Composition and designed sound developed as one language where the boundary between them needs to stay fluid.
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Rehearsal development
Material can evolve with the room, performers and staging rather than being treated as a finished object too early.
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Delivery
Final versions prepared for the playback, performance and technical system the production actually uses.
02 / APPROACH
Start with what the story needs from music.
A / RHYTHM
Follow the structure of the performance.
The score responds to pace, silence, speech, movement and the shape of the live event.
B / EMOTION
Support without explaining too much.
Music can hold tension, release, memory and change without flattening the audience's own response.
C / SYSTEM
Make the music usable.
The creative decision and the playback reality are considered together, so the score survives contact with the room.
03 / RELATED
Connect the score to the wider sound world.
- 01Theatre sound design
Atmosphere, effects, transitions and sonic language shaped around dramatic function.
- 02QLab & playback
Turn the score and sound world into a clear, reliable cue structure.
- 03Sound & Music Department
One creative lead across composition, sound and delivery when the production needs the disciplines joined up.
- 04Selected work
Hear examples of Robert's theatre, documentary and narrative work.
LISTEN / COMPOSITION
Hear the music in context.
Eight selected composition examples, from recurring musical ideas to pieces built for specific dramatic moments.
Lullaby Reprise
Selected composition
Lament
Selected composition
Composition / 03
Selected original composition
Composition / 04
Selected original composition
Composition / 05
Selected original composition
Composition / 06
Selected original composition
Composition / 07
Selected original composition
Lullaby
Selected composition
NEXT CUE / YOUR PRODUCTION
What should the production sound like?
Bring the story, the stage and the practical constraints. Robert can help define what music needs to do before deciding exactly what it needs to be.
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