The Awkward Years
Returning to The Other Room theatre at Porter’s, Cardiff, Tic created sound design and music for Matthew Bulgo’s work The Awkward Years. The one woman show was scored with environmental sound and EDM.
Producer: Jenny Sturt
Director: Dan Jones
Assistant Director: Alice Elkund
Writer: Matthew Bulgo
Lighting Designer: Angharad Evans
Designer: Hilary Statts
“Tic Ashfield’s electronic sound design, alternating between ambient underscore and aggressive dance beats, is darkly menacing throughout.” – British Theatre Guide
The Tide Whisperer
Alongside fellow John Hardy Music composer Sam Barnes, Tic created the sound and music for the National Theatre Wales production The Tide Whisperer written by Louise Wallwein for promenade performance in Tenby.
Writer: Louise Wallwein
Director: Kully Thiarai
Emerging Director: Nia Morris
Designer: Camilla Clarke
Lighting Designer: Ceri James
Sound Designer: Mike Beer
Video Designer: Simon Clode
Bottom
Tic created music and sound for Willy Hudson’s new play Bottom directed by Rachel Lemon. The work has been toured and performed across the UK.
Director: Rachel Lemon
Writer: Willy Hudson
As Long As The Heartbeats
Tic created the sound and music for National Theatre Wales’ show As Long As The Heartbeats. The show was performed at the Royal Gwent Hospital outpatients ward on the 21st and 22nd July 2018, the performance was a part of the NHS70 festival – celebrating 70 years of the NHS.
Directors: Ben Tinniswood & Marcus Romer
Designer: Becky Davies
Movement Director: Jennifer Fletcher
Lovesick
Tic created the music and sound design for The Other Room Theatre’s Spring Season at Porter’s, Cardiff. The 2018 Spring Season featured three plays; A Number by Caryl Churchill, dir. Ed Madden, All But Gone by Matthew Trevannion, dir. Dan Jones and The Effect by Lucy Prebble, dir. Dan Jones.
Designer: Carl Davies
Lighting Designer: Joe Fletcher
AV Designer: Zakk Hein
Hard Times
During Oct – Nov 2017 Tic created the music and sound design for Lighthouse Theatre’s production of ‘Hard Times’ by Charles Dickens, adapted by Stephen Jeffreys.
The show opened at Pontardawe Arts Centre on the 9th November 2017 and toured Wales.
Director: Joe Harmston
Moment(o)s
Tic created the sound design for Elaine Paton’s presentation of Moment(o)s in June 2017. The show, focused around mental health awareness was performed at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
This piece was created for Elaine Paton’s presentation of ‘Momentos’ performed at Chapter Arts Centre June 2017.
The piece was created using out of tune piano samples recorded by the composer after she found an old, abandoned piano backstage at a theatre. These samples have been edited and arranged to create the distressed piano sound heard in the piece.
Romeo & Juliet
In February 2017 Tic created music and sound for Omidaze Productions on a presentation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. This has been her third time collaborating with the company and director Yvonne Murphy.
Director: Yvonne Murphy
Designer: Saz Moir
Lighting Designer: Joe Fletcher
Moment(os) of Leaving
Created by Elaine Paton, ‘Moment(os) of Leaving’ was a site specific work which explored issues of mental health and marked the closing of Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff.
Tic worked closely with a team of dancers, actors and visual artists to create this promenade performance. The audience were taken through a series of ‘treatments’ during the show, which consisted of individual but thematically connected performances including solo and group movement pieces, monologues and video / design / archive installations. Each part of the production took place within a different part of the psychiatric wing, including the male and female wards.
To create the score, Tic predominately used found sounds from within the hospital itself as well as brass, woodwind and piano writing.
Henry VI
In 2016, Tic worked with Omidaze Productions once more to create the sound design and music for the all female Shakespeare production of ‘Henry VI’ at the Wales Millennium Centre.
Using the idea of leitmotif as inspiration, Tic created a series of textural pieces to underscore the drama based upon the characteristics of each of the leading characters. Sound was used as a key structural indicator throughout the performance, with sudden bursts of sound indicating the death of each character. Thunderous sounds of war were also used as a signifier for the many alarums within the play.
Director: Yvonne Murphy
Designer: Gabriella Slade
Lighting Designer: El Higgins
The performance was held within the dark roof void space in the Wales Millennium Centre with the audience moving around the space lead by the actors. The sound was dispersed throughout the space to help draw the audience through to the next location.
Saturday Night Forever
Alongside Benjamin Talbott, Tic composed the score for Roger Williams’ ‘Saturday Night Forever’ in 2015. The one man play tells the story of a man, living in Cardiff, who finds love and then tragically loses it because of hate crime.
Music and sound was used throughout the show to give the impression of clubs, bars and pubs as well as supporting the emotional journey of the story.
{150}
Created by National Theatre Wales and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2015, Tic composed the score for ‘{150}’ alongside John Hardy.
Director: Marc Rees
Sound Designer: Mike Beer
Producer: Sian Thomas
Richard III
‘Richard III’ was an all female cast and crew Shakespeare production created by Yvonne Murphy and Omidaze Productions. Tic created the score for the production in 2015.
Director: Yvonne Murphy
Designer: Gabriella Slade
Lighting Designer: El Higgins
The Gathering
‘The Gathering’ was a sight specific theatre performance by National Theatre Wales and The Louise Ann Wilson Company which took place on a Snowdonia Hill Farm in 2014.
The soundscape below showcases the variety of sounds collected during the development of the show.
Director: Ann Louise Wilson
Writer: Gillian Clarke
My People
Tic worked alongside fellow JHM composer Benjamin Talbott to create the score for Gwyn Emberton Dance’s ‘My People’.
Tir Sir Gar
Tic worked alongside Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru to create the score for the promenade theatre piece ‘Tir Sir Gar’ in 2013.
Director: Marc Rees
Writer: Roger Williams
Producer: Sian Thomas
Sound Designer: Mike Beer
Film: Simon Clode
Cold Rolling
‘Cold Rolling’ was a contemporary dance work created for the Adain Avion Cultural Olympiad in collaboration with Marc Rees, Tanja Raman, Ballet Cymru and John Hardy.
Director: Marc Rees
Choreographer: Tanja Raman
Co-Composer: John Hardy
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