Roles:
- Musical Arrangement
When I'm not composing original tracks for use in my work, I like to go back to the Doctor Who theme.
It's a piece of music that has great personal significance to me, and a piece of music I know in such great detail that I could probably give a lecture on the various different iterations of the theme and how they change from one version to another.
It is because of this knowledge of the music that I have, which allows me such great freedom to bend it and experiment with it. I find it a fantastic piece to come back to whenever I feel like practicing some music skills or to try out new sounds and synthesisers.
I have now produced a number of Doctor Who theme covers, the best of which, I have shared to YouTube.
Some other renditions do not even leave their project file, let alone make it onto the web. It is, after all, a piece of music I mess around with a great deal.
While some of my covers, such as the one featured above, are more of an original sound created through experimentation and mixing of synthesisers and instruments, others are more directly inspired by existing versions of the theme, such as these:
Sometimes, in order to create a familiar sound, I use sampled sounds from existing themes, such as the cliffhanger 'roar', and notably in the Murray Gold 2008 theme, the original 1963 Derbyshire melody, which has been isolated from the rest of the theme.