Music & Sound Design

Workshop Facilitator:
Nick Wells

Wednesday 31 July, 5-7PM, Studio

Music and sound effects are critical elements of a production. Although their main function is to support the text and the flow of action, sound design heightens the audience experience and works alongside the cast to conjure the magic of the theatre.

The session will show you how to work with the director's vision, search for sound effects, record your own sounds, find appropriate music, or create new work to combine into a series of sound cues for a show. The workshop will highlight how the backstage and tech teams work together with the director and the cast, and provide insights in how to engage with the script, use sound libraries, manage folders and file transfer, juggle different apps, and create a set of sound cues for the sound operator of the production. 

Bring a USB stick with 5 sounds and let's see how we could use those in a play setting.

Writer, musician and sound designer,
Nick Wells is the editor of Lights Up! the Putney Theatre Company podcast. Most recently he created the original score for The Lovely Bones (dir. Frances Bodiam), and current projects include original music and sound design for Borders by Henry Finlay (dir. Paul Dineen). He's played in bands, written songs and arrangements and recently remastered the soundtrack albums of Allen Stroud’s Lave Revolutions and The Fractal Series. He's currently writing new tracks for release in 2024 and 2025.