I create soundtracks for theatre, film, TV, games and video installations. Below you can watch and listen to a selection of excerpts from previous projects.
Selected projects
Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?
Chichester Festival Theatre
By Adrienne Kennedy and Adam P. Kennedy
Director: Diyan Zora
Composer: Robert Sword
Designer: Anisha Fields
Lighting: Joshua Gadsby
Sound: George Dennis
Movement & Assistant Director: Gerogina Makhubele
Voice & Dialect Coach: Shereen Ibrahim
Costume Supervisor: Helen Flower
Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Supervisor: Shelley Gray
Company Stage Manager: Francesca Finney
Deputy Stage Manager: Olivia Roberts
Video Design: Hayley Egan
Programmer: Mollie Tuttle
System Design: Dan Trenchard
Engineers: Adrien Corcilius, David Kennedy, Ed Aspinall
Cast
Rakie Ayola
Jack Benjamin
1984
Theatre Royal Bath
By Ryan Craig, in an adaptation of the original novel by George Orwell
Director: Lindsay Posner
Composers: Robert Sword & Giles Thomas
Sound Designer: Giles Thomas
Set, Costume and Video Designer: Justin Nardella
Lighting Designer: Paul Pyant
Assistant Designer: Lorelei Cairns
Associate Director: George Jibson
Associate Video Designer: Stanley Orwin-Fraser
Casting Director: Ginny Schiller
Deputy Stage Manager: William Buckenham
Cast
Keith Allen
Eleanor Wyld
David Birrell
Mark Quartley
Mathew Horne
Nicholas Woodeson
Asia Sky-Fenty
Oscar Batterham
Finbar Lynch
Martin Marquez
Janie Dee
Dona Croll
Niamh Bennett
Lewis Hart
Paul Sockett
Hedda Gabler
Sherman Theatre Cardiff
By Henrik Ibsen, in a version by Brian Friel.
Director: Chelsea Walker
Composers: Robert Sword & Giles Thomas
Designer: Rosanna Vize
Lighting Designer: Joseff Fletcher
Sound Designer: Giles Thomas
Cast
Heledd Gwynn
Marc Antolin
Caroline Berry
Nia Roberts
Richard Mylan
Alexandria Riley
Jay Saighal
Darling
Written by Piper Hansen
Director: Piper Hansen
Composers: Robert Sword
Camera Operator: Mya Hawreliak
AC: Kirsten Ceralde
Production Design: Envy Duffy
AD: Katelynn Harp
Script Supervisor: Lucy Chang
Gaffer: Hal Wilson
Sound Recordist: Isabella Gierbolini
Boom Operator: Sadie Sweitzer
Cast
Iris Wien
Louise Denyer
Science Museum: Collider
Giles Thomas and I created an original soundtrack for the Science Museum’s 2013-2014 exhibition about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The video segments were created by the Olivier Award winning video designer Finn Ross and featured Sound Design and some additional music by Carolyn Downing. The exhibition was opened in November 2013 by Peter Higgs, Stephen Hawking and novelist Ian McEwan. Following its success in London, the exhibition toured internationally until 2017.
Video Director: Finn Ross
Creative Director: Pippa Nissen
Sound Designer: Carolyn Downing
Composers: Robert Sword & Giles Thomas
3D Design: Nissen Richards Studio
Playwright: Michael Wynne
Video Design: Finn Ross & Adam Young
Graphic Design: Northover & Brown (with animator Mel Northover)
Lighting Design: Zerlina Hughes for Studio ZNA
Aurélia
Giles Thomas and I composed the soundtrack for Aurélia, a short film directed by Jade Courtney Edwards, which won the official selection for Los Angeles Lift Off 2015. Read an interview with Jade about the film on Film Courage.
Writer and director: Jade Courtney Edwards
Composers: Robert Sword & Giles Thomas
Producers: Madalena Hudson & Nathan Waters
Director of Photography: Freddy Meyer
Casting Director: Benoit Ponsaillé
Editors: Joanna Naugle & Jade Courtney Edwards
Sound Design: Luciano Vignola
Cast
Eden Ducourant
Stanley Weber
Gabrielle Lazure
Martin Barlan
After the Setting Sun
Written by Max Hanover & Ben Pearson
Director: Max Hanover
Composer: Robert Sword
Colourist: Alex Vasquez
Sound: Alistair Deagol
Cast
Ben Pearson
Ottilie Hill-Smith
Tom Oswald