Productions
Beowulf and Wealhtheow – audio play
Beowulf and Wealhtheow is an audio drama that reimagines the Old English epic Beowulf through a more intimate and human lens, focusing not only on the heroic world of monsters and battles, but on the emotional and political gravity that runs beneath it. Rather than treating the story as a distant myth, the piece draws attention to the fragile human relationships at its centre, especially the contrast between public heroism and private vulnerability.
At the heart of the work is Wealhtheow, traditionally a queenly presence in the poem, here reinterpreted as a fully realised narrative voice. Through her perspective, the world of the Geats and Danes becomes more than a heroic landscape; it becomes a place of negotiation, memory, and quiet resistance. The audio format allows voice, texture, and atmosphere to carry much of the storytelling, creating a sense of immediacy that brings the ancient material into a contemporary emotional register.
Coming Soon
Metropolis Live
Metropolis Live is a live electronic score created for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, performed in real time alongside the film. The work replaces the original orchestral accompaniment with a contemporary electronic sound world, reshaping the film’s iconic imagery through synthesisers, processed textures, and rhythmically driven sound design.
The score responds directly to the visual structure and emotional arc of the film, amplifying its contrasts between machinery and humanity, control and collapse. Rather than illustrating the narrative, the music sits inside it, reacting moment by moment to the movement, editing, and architecture of Lang’s world. The result is a renewed encounter with Metropolis that feels immediate, physical, and rooted in live performance.
Coming 2027
All The World…
All the World is a three-minute Straight 8 film that responds to the complete works of Shakespeare, all 37 plays, through movement, rhythm and visual metaphor.
A Straight 8 film is a filmmaking challenge built around extreme constraint and total commitment to the original idea. Filmmakers are given a single roll of Super 8 film, which must be shot in sequence with no post-production editing. The final work is only revealed once the film has been developed, meaning there are no second takes in the conventional sense and no ability to reorder or restructure material afterwards. Sound is also pre-delivered and added blind, so the filmmaker does not see the finished audiovisual combination until the film is released by the organisers.
These constraints create a very particular working method. Everything must be designed in advance and executed in real time, with each shot carrying structural weight inside the final piece. The result is often immediate and raw, but also highly composed, shaped as much by limitation as by intention.
Within this framework, All the World reduces Shakespeare’s expansive canon into choreographic fragments, where gesture, pattern and movement replace dialogue and narrative. Rather than retelling the plays, the film treats them as a shared physical language, distilling drama into rhythm and visual association.
The result is a rapid, associative work that treats Shakespeare not as literature, but as embodied structure: compressed, immediate, and built entirely within the unforgiving logic of the Straight 8 process.
Out now
Bach Cello Suites
The six cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach are among the most revered works in the classical repertoire. Composed around 1720 during Bach’s time at the court of Köthen, they were written for unaccompanied cello at a time when the instrument was rarely given such expressive or structural independence. Each suite combines a Prelude with a series of stylised Baroque dances, revealing Bach’s ability to create vast emotional and architectural worlds from a single melodic line.
Spanning from the luminous openness of the First Suite in G major to the introspective depth of the later suites, the cycle traces a remarkable expressive journey. At once technically demanding and deeply human, the music balances formal clarity with emotional immediacy, allowing each movement to feel both precisely constructed and instinctively expressive.
This recording, by Dan James, presents Suites 1–3, with Suites 4–6 to follow. It forms part of an ongoing engagement with Bach’s solo cello repertoire, approached as a continuous exploration of voice, structure, and sound.
Suites 1-3 out now
Wild Swans
Wild Swans is a unique fusion of audiobook and musical performance, reimagining the beloved fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Narrated by John Suchet and featuring music adapted from the ballet score by Elena Kats-Chernin, the work tells the story of a young princess who embarks on a perilous quest to save her eleven brothers after they are transformed into swans by a curse. Bound by silence and guided only by courage and determination, she faces extraordinary challenges in a tale of sacrifice, love, and redemption.
Created by Steve Thompson for Gullwing Arts, Wild Swans blends spoken word, live music, and striking visual artwork into a richly atmospheric experience. Part audiobook and part musical journey, it offers a fresh interpretation of Andersen’s timeless story, inviting listeners of all ages to rediscover a classic fairy tale through an immersive combination of narrative and sound.