{"id":1905,"date":"2015-12-21T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T10:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2015-12-21T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:21:38","slug":"dr-who-composer-mark-ayres-talks-to-music-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2015\/12\/21\/dr-who-composer-mark-ayres-talks-to-music-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Who composer Mark Ayres talks to Music students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark Ayres with Lecturer Richard Lightman and Music students from the School of Music and Fine Art. Photo by Richard Lightman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Television and film composer Mark Ayres, best known for providing incidental music on the original series of Doctor Who, recently visited the Historic Dockyard Chatham to talk to Music & Sound for Film & Television. He revealed some of the secrets of his composition techniques and explored the relationship between composer and director. Mark, in addition to his composition work, is a director of BASCA and a current member of the touring Radiophonic Workshop. For more information click on http:\/\/www.effectrode.com\/making-of-the-doctor-who-theme-music\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Ayres’s work on broadcast Doctor Who was during Sylvester McCoy’s era as the Seventh Doctor, and was hired after he sent producer John Nathan-Turner a demonstration video containing music he had written to accompany Remembrance of the Daleks, using digital synthesisers and samplers.<\/p>\n

Ayres was also involved in the last days of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, cataloguing and archiving their recordings for future use.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a fantastic opportunity for students to meet with a BBC composer,\u201d said Richard Lightman, Lecturer in Music in the School of Music & Fine Art. \u201cMark\u2019s insights into the composer-director relationship and the career routes into the industry were a revelation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The talk was part of a series of industry talks for students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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