I'm not quite sure what sort of wizard water Londoners drink, but I can only thank my lucky cat for stumbling into a team of young, inventive geniuses from across the pond who have hopped a ride on my own adventures into filmmaking. Our most recent passenger is Tim Harrison, whose sound buffets seduced me on first listening. And indeed, I believe sound may be the most powerful tool in a filmmaker's arsenal to seduce. That’s because "sound," as the great sound editor Alan Splet once said, "is a heart thing."
So without further ado, I'm delighted to welcome Tim Harrison... 9's auditory heart surgeon. His film reel (above) will make your auditory ossicle gyrate with joy.
Tim Harrison is a sound designer, filmmaker and tinkerer. He runs Aumeta, a company specialising in feature film audio post (mostly recently Sus and Keith Lemon: The Film) and commercial sound design (clients include Adidas, Mulberry and Nokia). He has a keen interest in experimental cinema, regularly working with director Luke Losey. Results include the microshorts The Promise and 'i' for which he won the International Sound Design Prize at the 2007 Hamburg Film Festival. Collaborations with Luke have also seen him work alongside Damon Albarn on The Boy in the Oak and Phil Hartnoll (Orbital) on various projection mapping projects for Drive Productions.
Tim is a member of filmmaking collective Studio Murmur. Work includes the butoh inspired pieces Dreamt in Flesh and 1/4". He has also produced and assistant directed Studio Murmur music videos for the likes of DJ Shadow, Kwes and Get People.
A current focus is on interactive videos and installations. In 2012 he co-directed Helioscope, following on from the earlier interactive video experiment The Adelphi. Past installations include Synaesthete, a Java-based cymatics system. Amongst his technical expertise in these areas are programming languages C++, Java and Flash, with Processing and Arduino featuring heavily in more recent experiments.
Tim is a technician and lecturer for the Sound Arts & Design courses.