Philip Sheppard

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  • Voyager’s message in a bottle

    [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169148725″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]The Voyager Golden Discs are gramophone records which were attached to both Voyager spacecrafts, which were launched in 1977.

    The discs contain a huge array of music and noises from Earth, as well as biometric information and scientific knowledge.

    Inscribed on the discs are the words; ‘To the makers of music – all worlds, all times…’
    Everything in my track is built from manipulated sounds from the gold discs attached to the Voyager space probes.
    Hope you like it.

  • Carnegie Hall premiere

    Jupiter

    no photoshopping here..!

    Quoted from Press release

    The Houston Symphony announces Carnegie Hall as the second stop for the world-premiere event, The Planets—An HD Odyssey, a newly commissioned project of the Symphony. On January 28, 2010, Carnegie Hall will present the Symphony under the baton of Music Director Hans Graf in a program that culminates with Gustav Holst’s beloved The Planets and a high-definition, state-of-the-art film by celebrated producer/director Duncan Copp.

    I’ve written a Prelude – The Launch of Cassini which opens the film.

    I’m very excited about this. I’ve played in Carnegie Hall, but have never had anything presented there before. The Holst is such an incredible piece that I’m steering clear of its orchestration and soundworld and going heavily into harmonics and string overtones.

    I may put a sneak peek here soon. Needless to say, it’s going to have a lot of cellos in it…

  • radiomovies DVD news

    It seems this is the week for DVD releases of some of my recent scores…

    Henry Mind of a Tyrant, Sacred Monsters and Moon Machines are all rolling out now!

    Henry Mind of a Tyrant is released on DVD in the UK:

    stark1Moon Machines finally gets a release on DVD in the US:

    mmThis series was fascinating to work on. The series focuses on the brains behind the mind-blowing technology that got man to the moon more than just the once. If you liked In the Shadow of the Moon (and I hope you did) then you might enjoy this too. My favourite sequences show how the software to run the craft was literally knitted by expert seamstresses using looms.

    Sacred Monsters is released worldwide on DVD by Sadlers Wells:

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    This show starred Akram Khan and Sylvie Guillem. I wrote the score and toured with the production as onstage cellist (with a great band) for the best part of a year and a half. I hope to post the soundtrack online soon as a free listen (as per my other Akram show; In-I).