Welcome to Bog Standard Audio, the online home of Danny Bright. Danny is a freelance sound designer, composer, engineer, recordist, musician and sonic manipulator working within the fields of theatre, performance, installation, music and media. He has variously lived, studied and worked in Sheffield, England; Burlington, Vermont, USA; and Brighton and Hove, England where he is now based. His designs often explore the boundaries between sound, music and noise in an attempt to provide sonically creative soundscores that have both physical and psychological impact. Danny is currently developing compositional and installation work investigating sonic temporalities and auditory ‘ghostings’, and is resident sound designer for Simply Told, an Associate Company of Greenwich Theatre.
Have a look below, and on the other pages of the site for details of Danny’s current and past projects. If you are interested in working with Danny please get in touch via email, twitter or phone (details in the sidebar).
Current Projects:
Sound Designs for Vampirates and The Alpha Project have been included in the Sound Design section of Transformation and Revelation: Gormley to Gaga. UK design for performance 2007–2011 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Exhibition runs from 17th March to 30th September 2012.
Sound design for The Turing Project - a new show produced by Simply Told.
Development Residency at The Basement, Brighton
Full premiere at The British Science Festival, Aberdeen October 2012
Installed as part of Freshly Scratched at Battersea Arts Centre
Sound design and original music for Vampirates - Touring nationally from September 2011. Presented by Scene Productions and Company Gavin Robertson, Directed by Gavin Robertson.
“Suitably eerie... a rare kind of magic” The Stage
Sound design and original music for Metamorphosis - Touring nationally from September 2011. A new adaptation by Scene Productions.
“The sharp, often menacing, sound effects work well... Innovative theatre” The Stage
Recent Projects:
Technical director for The Stranger at the Table. Presented by Brighton Theatre and Pascal Theatre Company. Written by Julia Pascal, directed by Faynia Williams. Staged reading at The Jewish Museum, 13th November 2011.
Sound design and operation for The Alpha Project - site-specific immersive theatre experience. Performances at the British Science Festival in Bradford as well as in Brighton, Manchester, London and Newcastle.
“Cunning beauty” The Guardian
Sound design and performance with Mongrel Sees Field at the Playgroup Festival in the Beatabet tent.
The Alpha Project soundscore has been included in the 3rd International Theatre Soundscore and Music Composition Exhibit.
This was installed in the DISK cafe at DAMU, Prague as part of the Prague Quadrennial 2011.
The exhibit is a project of the OISTAT Sound Design Working Group curated by Joe Pino
Contributed two recordings to the OISTAT Sound Design Working Group 2011 World Listening Day Project. You can listen to the whole day’s recordings here: Soundcloud - World Listening Day 2011
Sound design, live sonic manipulation and performance - Pan-demonium at The Knot in Berlin
Sound and video consultant - Pan-demonium at The AC Institute, New York