Mark Day

I am a composer and sound designer specialising in music and audio for contemporary theatre. I'm always open to collaboration on interersting new work.

I've worked with emerging theatre companies both as part of a devising process, and in working to commission. My preferred style builds on the electronic manipulation of performed instruments and found sound. The resulting work is stark, beautiful, and often unsettling. Past projects include:

Spool: a twenty minute piece featuring two performers and one sound engineer, devised in just four days for Birmingham's 'Pilot' night. The performance is built around the live creation and manipulation of sound loops to create contrasting atmospheres. On the back of this piece, I created and toured a workshop based around the use of audio looping in the theatre devising process.

Black Tonic: funded by the Wellcome Trust, Black Tonic is a detective story about infidelity and sleep deprivation, performed in a hotel to an audience of just four. The show has toured nationwide through 2008 and 2009. Black Tonic was favourably reviewed by The Independent, and The Guardian.

I am Waiting for the Opportunity to Save Someone's Life: a major project funded by the Arts Council in 2006, I am Waiting was a completely devised work, site specific to a high-end Birmingham retail unit. The project ambitiously integrated a range of media, including environments to explore, video, live performance, and audio. (Picture, above right.)

Wapping Audio Tour: this audio tour offers an intriguing mix of performance and sitghtseeing guiding the walker through the old London docks district of Wapping. Download the tour here. (Picture, bottom left.)