Tony Churnside | Creative Technologist

Tony Churnside

Using creative technology to make amazing experiences

Sound Design for The Forgotten Stories of Football. The best stories from the beautiful game that you may never have heard before, written by some of the world’s leading sports journalists, and spanning more than 100 years of sporting history from across the footballing planet.

Client: The Guardian

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all experienced isolation in one way or another. Connections is a series of 5 new 15-minute dramas by new disabled writers, each exploring isolation within the context of disability. Each play stands alone, yet there are subtle connections running through the series. Sound Design for Naked Productions with input from Graeae Theatre. Funded by The Audio Content Fund.

Client: Naked Productions

A satirical river of sound and a platform for diverse new talent, this is topical satire like you’ve never heard it before. A new open-door comedy for a fresh generation of satirists who don’t write sketches, jokes and one-liners, but instead channel their talents into playing around with sound. Sound Design by Naked Productions for Unusual Productions. Series 1 won Gold for Sound Art from New York Festivals in 2020 and is a British Podcast Award 2020 nominee. A New series coming to Radio 4 soon Click here for more info.

Client: Unusual Productions

Ghosts. The lost. Seemingly harmless, whispers in the darkness. Alone and wandering, looking for something, someone. Naked Productions presents a curated audio journey at Brickworks, an eerie, underground setting, deep beneath the streets of Manchester, with ghosts in the walls and tales of trapped souls who still haunt, for an evening of tales to leave you spooked and shake your bones. Stories to make you jump with fright, about things that go bump in the night, about ghosts, ghouls, spirits and screams, and all that lurks in the dark this Halloween. Join us underground in the dark and be afraid. Click here for more info.

Client: Naked Productions

Disquiet

For decades, the ‘Vostok-K Incident’, has been little more than a rumour, a conspiracy-theory with little evidence to go on – until now. RAF, NATO and Soviet Space Program dossiers have recently been declassified, and audio records of the night in question have finally been recovered. This immersive audio drama currently available on BBC Taster uses multiple devices (mobile phones / tablets etc.) which all contribute to the sound design or unlock hidden audio content. Click here to try

Client: BBC R&D / S3A



The Vostok K Incident
The Vostok K Incident
The Vostok K Incident
The Vostok K Incident
The Vostok K Incident
The Vostok K Incident

I wrote the music and worked with Eloise Whitmore on the sound design for these animations from Kilogramme for Manchester Metrolink. For one of the animations I had to create the sound of 2001 Space Odyssey using car and tram horns.

Client: TfGM



Metrolink Stay Safe

I designed and built the Sparklab Productions website, providing them with a simple to use CMS so they can build and add content to the site in the future.

Client: Sparklab

Sparklab Website

In order to extend the life of the You The Audience project I came up with the concept of The Listening Exchange for The Royal Exchange Theatre. Designer Amanda Stoodley created the shed. The recordings made by Eloise Whitmore and me for You The Audience were remixed for this installation. Along the side of the shed were different transducers, each being fed by different stories and sound mixes.

Client: Royal Exchange

The Listening Exchange
The Listening Exchange Shed
The Listening Exchange Shed
The Listening Exchange Shed