Nic Nell 06/12/2023 Nic Nell 06/12/2023

Sami El-Enany - Woodhill

mixing, additional production

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75 minute dance score composed by Sami El-Enany | Mixing & Additional Production by Nic Nell

★★★★★ "Astonishing portrait of Britain’s failing prison system." The Guardian

★★★★★ "A very powerful show that will leave you feeling the desire to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers." The Student

★★★★★ ‘A dazzling show that does justice to injustice’ The Evening Standard

★★★★ "You'll have tears in your eyes and anger in your hearts." The Scotsman

Winner of the Lustrum Award 2023

Winner of the Sit Up Award 2023

Three men at Woodhill prison are dead. Their families demand answers. This is a call to arms about the crisis facing prisons.

Through choreography and a machine-led, 75 minute score by Sami El-Enany, Woodhill shines a light on the hidden story of HMP Woodhill. Lyrically told in their own words, three families investigate what happened to their boys. What they discover is so haunting, it turns their world upside down. An explosive true story.

'Woodhill' is a powerful call to arms about the crisis facing prisons and tells the story of three families searching for justice. The show is a collaboration between writer and director Matt Woodhead, composer Sami El-Enany and choreographer Alexzandra Sarmiento, produced by Lung Theatre with partners The North Wall and Shoreditch Town Hall.

Lung Theatre | 2023

Nic Nell 12/10/2022 Nic Nell 12/10/2022

PAN + TILT

composer

Music & sound design by Nic Nell (Casually Here)

VR Screen recording extracts from immersive project PAN + TILT, an ongoing collaboration with virtual realist artists Gibson/Martelli and costumes by fashion designer Zi Wonderound. The project combines motion capture dance performances, AI generated characters, virtual world and character design and modelling, music, sound design combined with costume design and hybrid physical and virtual performances.

Premiered and ‘Best Immersive Art and XR Award’ nominee at the 66th BFI London Film Festival Expanded 2022.

‘In PAN + TILT Choreographer Ruth Gibson and VR artist Bruno Martelli have joined forces with composer Nic Nell (Casually Here) to invent a holographic universe inspired by the extraordinary legacy of Joan Skinner, an American choreographer, teacher and former dancer with the Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham companies. In this exciting world premiere, Gibson/Martelli creates an experience for two visitors at a time, placing them into a visual landscape that triggers exploration by means of motion-capture techniques and machine-learning processes. Release your inner dancer and re-connect with the physical world by exploring a virtual one.’

2022 - ongoing

Nic Nell 17/12/2021 Nic Nell 17/12/2021

The Well Of Deep Time

score, sound design

Score & sound design by Nic Nell composed to soundtrack a deep time meditation taking the listener back through the 4.8 billion year history of Earth for the ARIA award winning podcast 'The Long Time Academy', produced by Scenery Studios in collaboration with Headspace and The Long Time Project, which accopanied an episode featuring Brian Eno discussing the origins of ambient music and the idea of the Long Now. The meditation additionally appears within the Headspace app.

The music was released as a stand alone ambient piece on Algebra Records available here

The music was subsequently part of 'PAN + TILT', a VR collaboration with virtual realist artists duo Gibson / Martelli, premiered at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival Expanded Exhibition.