Nela Brown

Short Cut(s)

2009-07-10T06:39:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Performance Installation)
Dir. Tonny Ajoup
Sweet or Sour productions
Blue Elephant Theatre, Jun 2009

Catharsis

2009-07-10T06:36:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Performance installation)
Dir.Tonny Ajoup
Sweet or Sour Productions
Blue Elephant Theatre, Jun 2009

Cost You Nothing

2009-07-10T06:33:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Short film)
Dir. Natalie Brady
Commissioned by Sound and Music
Kings Place, London, May 2009

Gaby Goes Global

2009-03-10T04:11:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Kirrie Wratten
New Wimbledon Studio, London, Feb 2009

Hotel Medea

2009-01-29T10:01:00.000-08:00

Sound Design (Theatre) in collaboration with DJ Dolores
Dir. Jorge Lopes Ramos/ PJM
Zecora Ura featuring the Urban Dolls Project
Arcola Theatre, London, Jan/Feb 2009

Airswimming

2009-01-26T10:02:00.000-08:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Gemma Kerr
The Courtyard, London Jan-Feb 2009

Kofi

2008-12-01T09:57:00.000-08:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Femi Oguns
Identity Drama School
Arcola Theatre, London, Dec 2008

Generation Next

2008-11-14T09:56:00.000-08:00

Sound Design (6-Channel Performance Installation)
Dir. Tonny Ajoup
Sweet or Sour Productions
The Space , London, Nov 2008
Pacific Playhouse, London, Nov 2008

Ignite

2008-11-06T09:57:00.000-08:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Suzann McLean Robinson/Femi Oguns
Identity Drama School
The Drill Hall, London, Nov 2008

Ecstasy

2008-08-17T08:42:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Maddy Lewis
Easy Tiger Productions
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2008

Dogs Barking

2008-07-12T08:43:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Michael Moxam
Easy Tiger Productions
Toronto Fringe Festival Jul 2008
Edinburgh Fringe Festival Aug 2008

Ali to Karim (A2K) US Tour

2008-07-03T18:21:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Hafiz Karmali
Celebrations Global Ltd.

A tribute to the Ismaili Imams, A2K has been produced as a part of Golden Jubilee International Programme commemorating His Highness the Aga Khan. It premiered in Los Angeles in July 2008, following the performances in Dallas, Miami, Chicago, New York, Atlanta and Houston as a part of US Summer 2008 tour.

Hotel Medea - From Midnight to dawn

2008-06-15T18:15:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Jorge Lopes Ramos
Zecora Ura featuring the Urban Dolls Project
Shunt Lounge, London May 2008
Salisbury International Arts Festival May 2008
LIFT festival, London, June 2008

Black Hole

2008-05-21T18:12:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Art Video)
Dir. Marco Bolognesi
Casa Masaccio in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy, May/Jun 2008

Rebellion

2008-03-24T06:56:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Musical)
Dir. Suzann McLean Robinson
ODAC
Hackney Empire, London, March 2008

I was commissioned to create sound design using voiceover recordings, atmos and sfx for a new musical telling the story of two African princes captured into slavery, and their struggle to free themselves from tyrannical bondage in Jamaica and Britain.

Black Swan Moments: The impact of the unexpected

2008-02-09T08:56:00.000-08:00

Sound Design (Dance)
Dir. Katie Thies
Katie Thies Dance Theatre
Resolution! The Place, London, February 2008

I came on board of KTDT in December 2007, to produce sound design for their latest piece, a 30-minute dance performance, using voiceovers, original composition, sfx, atmos and guitar recordings.
Grow up quickly.mp3

Touch, I, Impulse 2, Careless, My Corner, Chains

2007-12-15T05:40:00.000-08:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Victoria Evaristo/Femi Oguns
Identity Drama School
Arcola Theatre, London, November/December 2007

I was commissioned to create sound design for six one-hour showcases using music, sfx and atmos and run the sound live using DP during performances at the Arcola Theatre. The days were long and the schedule was tight, but working with directors Femi Oguns, Victoria Evaritso and the talented cast was brilliant!

In the Shadows of Senghor

2007-10-21T06:06:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Tonny Ajoup
JCA Productions
Brady Arts Centre (as a part of Black History Month), London, Oct 2007

The Voice of Things - Toilet Paper

2007-06-20T05:47:00.000-07:00

Composition (Theatre)
Dir. Jiwon Yang
Hayan Theatre
Shunt Lounge, 27-29 Jun 2007
Smirnoff Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival, 2-26 Aug 2007

I was commissioned to create an evocative score to accompany one-hour performances, using original composition, voiceovers, sfx and atmos for the previews at Shunt Lounge, and some additional composition for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was running the performances live using DP and MacBook Pro, as this enabled me to mix the sound files on the fly.

Exhibitions/Broadcast

2007-06-01T08:16:00.000-07:00

Resonance FM, 2007
MediumMagazine, 2006
EAST05, 2005
Resonance FM, 2004

Truman Brewery 2007:

Acoustic Exchange
... installation aimed to bring into focus the often forgotten side of our senses, our hearing, and through exploration of shapes, colours and textures, raise awareness of existence of sound, and investigate ways in which aural awakeness could be integrated into our place of habitat, thus improving our auditory experience of it. Depending on where they are exhibited, the site-specific Acoustic Exchange objects would aim to instigate different modes of acoustic communication between those who are listening from the outside and those who are ‘hiding’ inside.

Being and Space
...was a site-specific audio visual installation made in collaboration with Francisco Baena. Using motion-tracking technology to take the viewer/listener into a parallel reality it questioned the perception of what is real and what is fictional.

River, Angel in the Dark

2007-03-20T05:49:00.000-07:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Tonny Ajoup
JCA Productions
Barons Court Theatre, DYS(the)LEXI festival, London Mar 2007

I was in charge of creating sound design for one-hour play about the Native American Community written by Award-winning choreographer Adesola Akinleye, and 10-minute solo performance by Tonny Ajoup to be performed as a part of DYS(the)LEXI festival. I recorded voiceovers with actors and guitar improvisations by Zak Dajani, then mixed them with sfx and atmos to produce an original score. I run the shows live from DP sessions using laptop and my own mixer, as the theatre seem to have forgotten to install one :-)

In the Shadows of Senghor

2006-12-06T09:41:00.000-08:00

Sound Design (Theatre)
Dir. Tonny Ajoup
JCA Productions
The Space, London, Dec 2006

I was commissioned to lead a team of sound designers and create sound for a one-hour show about the 30's cultural and political Negritude movement, based on the poetry collection of Senegalese statesman and poet Leopold Sedar Senghor, using voiceovers, sfx, atmos and music.

Sonic Opinion

2006-01-01T08:53:00.000-08:00

(electroacoustic composition)

'Communication between people isn't about the language we use. When someone speaks, we do not listen to the words but the tone in which they were spoken and the meaning behind them, which goes further and deeper than the speaker's ability to express themselves in one language or another. If words are just sounds that resonate in our head until we form a sonic opinion about the speaker, does it really matter what language they are using or is it more about the person who is saying those words? To answer this question I decided to record myself speaking in English over and over again, hoping that in a process of doing so I could go beyond the words themselves and reveal the essence of the person speaking.'

Sonic Opinion.mp3

There are more shoes here ...

2006-01-01T08:52:00.000-08:00

(electroacoustic composition)

This sonic memoir, inspired by a trip to Paris with my mom, questions the purpose and the meaning of our memories. It explores the way we remember things, the order in which we remember them and the fact that some of them we remember for a very long time, whilst some others we forget like they never happened. It proposes a concept in which stories could be noted or recorded with every minute detail in the first instance, and then reconstructed by a means of chance operations to portray the forgetting and the remembering that subconsciously occurs afterwards.

There are more shoes here.mp3

'92 (Once upon a time in the east)

2005-01-01T08:50:00.000-08:00

(electroacoustic composition)

It was a warm and sunny morning in the spring of 1992. My friend Ivica and I were sipping double macchiatos in the café by the sea in our hometown, Zadar. World, it seemed, was such a beautiful and peaceful place. Next thing we heard was a big swoosh some 50 meters away. We looked down and saw big pillars of sea rising into the air. Before they even hit the surface the siren was announced, and we were once more reminded that we were at war. So much for a nice cup of coffee and a chat! We rushed out of the café trying to find some shelter and the rest, as they say is history …

92.mp3

The Light's on but nobody's home

2004-12-01T12:39:00.000-08:00

(electroacoustic composition)

This composition attempts to explain what happens in the brain of a person who tries to use their second language as their first, in relation to their digital counterparts - computers. It can be hilariously funny; especially when a bunch of people tries to converse in their second language, but most of the time it is confusing, frustrating and downright painful. The better our second language, the more difficult it is for others to perceive us as foreign, which can sometimes lead to misunderstanding and misinterpretation.

The light's on but nobody's home.mp3